Thank you, you are very much welcome. I just wanted to see what the people would think, as I personally am longing after a redesign.
Well, it's still going to be rounded, just less bulky and less wasted space. And a glass plate edge-to-edge design like on a current iMac. And a touch sensitive HOME button, of course - enough with the little dusts.
I like the sharp edges much better because you can actually HOLD ON TO IT and it doesn't slip out of your hand as easily and you don't have to wrap your greasy fingers all over the chrome that stays shiny for about 2 seconds unless you have alcohol/windex with you 24/7 to wipe it off with. Honestly I understand that the design is very simple and almost timless, but it does not feel like a PHONE, it feels like something I'm frightened of damaging or losing and I have nightmares about thrice a month that I fall in a lake or there's a flood and my iPhone gets water damage and then my whole life falls apart and my teeth fall out.
Ideas that people haven't mentioned on this thread so for that are plausible and I'd love to see:
1) READ TEXT MESSAGES OUTLOUD!! One of the things I suggested to them alread that they sort of have done by making the voice over activate by tapping the home screen three times is read text/emails/etc outloud. This is really useful, for example, if you get a long and important email and your hands are busy (cooking, driving, having intercourse with yourself or a third party, etc) and you need to read the email but you can't hold the phone or don't want to get it dirty you can just tripple tap the home screen and then tap the text once and it reads it outloud - it can do this now and I love it but you still have to touch the phone. What I find ridiculous is that this software is ALREADY in the phone and apple understands taht when you're busy (i.e. driving or working out) and you CAN"T touch the phone, the remote mic and voice over are great for calling people, answering calls, and playing/organizing music, but it DOESN"T READ TEXT MESSAGES TO YOU! All they need to do is when you get a text and it notifies you, make it so you can double/tripple tap the remote and it READS IT OUTLOUD to you so you don't have to take your eyes off the road or stop running to take out your phone! Or, add a "read text message" command to voice over! It's not hard and it's 100% capable of this already, they just need to change the interface.
2) A text message count would be nice per person, that way I can compare how frantic different people are because face it, I (we?) have almost entire relationships with people chronicled in my Messages app.
3) Sleep mode/profiles!!! Someone vaguely mentioned this I think, but we seriously need to be able to switch quickly between more than just vibrate and not! Sometimes we want vibrate, sometiems we need it just silent, and somtimes we need full volume! If, for instance, I go to bed early or need to sleep in and a drunk friend or early bird colleague calls me and it's not serious I DON"T WANT TO HEAR IT OR FEEL IT VIBRATE and many times my friends and I have turned the phone to silent only to completely forget that vibrate has been turned off in silent and when we switch it back we miss important calls. A simple "all off" position on the switch would be nice or even soft button from the home screen to select profiles (i.e. at work, asleep, napping, shower, etc.) And, in case it's really important, i.e. death in the family, you could set it so that if someone calls two, three, or four times the Nth ring will ring no matter what, even if you have it on silent mode. That way really important calls (or persistent callers) could get through if they need to but unimportant social calls won't interrupt your current meeting/sleep/intimacy etc.
4) built in powermat support
... it's a wishlist!
Already mentioned that I feel strongly about:
FLASH ON CAMERA as well as flashlight functionality!
ADOBE FLASH SUPPORT for videos etc
All the internal improvements that people mentioned would be great, I really need 64gigs or more to even come close to holding just my music
HD output would be great, including being able to rent HD through the iTunes store directly on the phone, esp to finish up later on comp/TV at home
in-app text messaging
did i mention flash?
