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Top 10 things the iPhone needs in firmware update 1.2
- Thread starter jbomber
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Here's my list, in no particular order:
1. fix iCal syncing problem
2. fix itunes syncing the same songs on each sync
3. email - mark as flagged
4. Contacts - new contacts added to specific groups
5. email - mail to groups/distribution lists
6. sms - txt multiple contacts
7. calendar - add new events to specific calendars
8. sync To Do's & Notes
9. mail - view forwards sent as mime attachments
10. search - at minimum for contacts, songs, artists, but eventually system wide (including email)
1. fix iCal syncing problem
2. fix itunes syncing the same songs on each sync
3. email - mark as flagged
4. Contacts - new contacts added to specific groups
5. email - mail to groups/distribution lists
6. sms - txt multiple contacts
7. calendar - add new events to specific calendars
8. sync To Do's & Notes
9. mail - view forwards sent as mime attachments
10. search - at minimum for contacts, songs, artists, but eventually system wide (including email)
What would be nice on iPhone:
1) Dictionary (if you are on edge and don't want to google it..)
2) iChat
3) Address Book
4) (for rev 2 or faster EDGE) with built-in webcam on front
5) Copy/Paste
6) Send more than 1 photos via email
7) Attach any kind of files (PDF, etc.) and send it via iPhone email
8) Games like chess
9) Ability to hit "call" instantly (like on regular cell phone) perhaps beside home button or whatever
10) SMS or text message - add more than 1 person
11) Improve Safari, perhaps add FF for alternate browser
12) Flash (that's up to apple)
13) On WiFi setting, wish you can forget this or these networks names that have locks (that you don't know their passwords) that kept popping up on your screen...
14) Please, please update apple mail (remember when you hit delete and later tried to recover it from trash can and it never came back to inbox, that's the biggest serious bug ever)
15) Need to increase the speed of iPhone animation such as switching different apps instantly or use like "CMD+TAB" thing
16) SEARCH button/function required/needed!!! (for safari, email, etc.) - very important
17) Faster speed instead of delaying for taking picture
I think that is it Lots of things to say haha
1) Dictionary (if you are on edge and don't want to google it..)
2) iChat
3) Address Book
4) (for rev 2 or faster EDGE) with built-in webcam on front
5) Copy/Paste
6) Send more than 1 photos via email
7) Attach any kind of files (PDF, etc.) and send it via iPhone email
8) Games like chess
9) Ability to hit "call" instantly (like on regular cell phone) perhaps beside home button or whatever
10) SMS or text message - add more than 1 person
11) Improve Safari, perhaps add FF for alternate browser
12) Flash (that's up to apple)
13) On WiFi setting, wish you can forget this or these networks names that have locks (that you don't know their passwords) that kept popping up on your screen...
14) Please, please update apple mail (remember when you hit delete and later tried to recover it from trash can and it never came back to inbox, that's the biggest serious bug ever)
15) Need to increase the speed of iPhone animation such as switching different apps instantly or use like "CMD+TAB" thing
16) SEARCH button/function required/needed!!! (for safari, email, etc.) - very important
17) Faster speed instead of delaying for taking picture
I think that is it
Lots of things to say haha
Re: Safari - Need an improvement -
When opening URL and click any link to go next page from the main page, later you switch to different app and came back to Safari (like 20 mins or whatever) and you can't click "back" page to main page.. sucks.
Also, wish Safari can remember cache of websites and stay there instead of reloading.... (8gb of flash.. com'on'...)
If ya'll know what I mean...
When opening URL and click any link to go next page from the main page, later you switch to different app and came back to Safari (like 20 mins or whatever) and you can't click "back" page to main page.. sucks.
Also, wish Safari can remember cache of websites and stay there instead of reloading.... (8gb of flash.. com'on'...)
If ya'll know what I mean...
It has an address book. You can double click the home button and go directly to your favorite callers list ... not one click but much better than most cellphones ... no way are they going to throw in an alternate browser, perhaps they will allow developers to offer one, but I doubt it ... if you couldn't see WiFI locked networks, then you couldn't join it if you actually had the password.
Agreeed. There is no way the will allow another browser besides their own. They cant do anything about it on a real computer, but they can for their phone (for the most part...maybe?)
Did I miss anything? Anyone got anything else to add?
*Didn't add flash to the list because it's not something that Apple has directly under their control...[/QUOTE]
How about...
1) a way to forward a text message to someone else.
2) send a pic via text
3) send an email to an entire group of people (this still amazes me that you cannot do this on the iPhone.)
4) voice memo recording
5) a Mini World of Warcraft game. (The touchscreen would be perfect for this. Mini adventures... if not, I will settle for Texas Hold'em)
6) update your calendar to your .Mac without synicing
7) send a calendar event to be added to someone else's calendar
8) voice dialing (3 clicks on your ear bud and say, "Call Steve Jobs." and the iPhone says, "Did you say, 'Call Steve Jobs?" <Yes> "Calling." That would be great.
9) TV. There, I said it. No one else is, but I'm going to. and while we're at it Radio. The iPhone should have a TV and a radio.
10) "Next Meeting" Button on calendar. You pre-program as many buttons as you want, ( e.g. Library Board Meeting, Investment Club Meeting, PTA, etc.) and all you have to do is touch the date and it puts the title, location, and regular time in, which you of course can edit. Meetings always end with, "And our next meeting will be..." I would love to be able to added it two clicks. (edit it later, only if needed.)
there you go....fire away....
*Didn't add flash to the list because it's not something that Apple has directly under their control...[/QUOTE]
How about...
1) a way to forward a text message to someone else.
2) send a pic via text
3) send an email to an entire group of people (this still amazes me that you cannot do this on the iPhone.)
4) voice memo recording
5) a Mini World of Warcraft game. (The touchscreen would be perfect for this. Mini adventures... if not, I will settle for Texas Hold'em)
6) update your calendar to your .Mac without synicing
7) send a calendar event to be added to someone else's calendar
8) voice dialing (3 clicks on your ear bud and say, "Call Steve Jobs." and the iPhone says, "Did you say, 'Call Steve Jobs?" <Yes> "Calling." That would be great.
9) TV. There, I said it. No one else is, but I'm going to. and while we're at it Radio. The iPhone should have a TV and a radio.
10) "Next Meeting" Button on calendar. You pre-program as many buttons as you want, ( e.g. Library Board Meeting, Investment Club Meeting, PTA, etc.) and all you have to do is touch the date and it puts the title, location, and regular time in, which you of course can edit. Meetings always end with, "And our next meeting will be..." I would love to be able to added it two clicks. (edit it later, only if needed.)
there you go....fire away....
voice dialing is my nr. 1 need. i'll kill myself in the car without it and will stick with my Treo until Apple or a third party adds it. need real/satellite GPS, too.
i emailed the suggestions for apple with my idea, you double tap space to get a full stop. Double tap the shift button for a comma.
I aggree with everything but i would like to add:
1) be able to edit my albums (delete and reorder iphoto/itunes)
2) if i get an email or phone number in an email/text to be able to add it to contact as an option.
3) be able to add pictures in emails to iphoto.
4) be able to use any sound i like for any function.
I aggree with everything but i would like to add:
1) be able to edit my albums (delete and reorder iphoto/itunes)
2) if i get an email or phone number in an email/text to be able to add it to contact as an option.
3) be able to add pictures in emails to iphoto.
4) be able to use any sound i like for any function.
A lot of the topics people are requesting for can and most likely will be added by the release of the SDK in February. Some of these things include:
- Video capture: there's already a 3rd party app that has shown it is possible to add this with a simple program.
- Still Picture Focusing: Haven't heard about anything like this in the works, but I'm hoping it comes out with the SDK as well.
- iWork: It makes sense that Apple would like more of a push in the corporate market. It looks very likely that there will be either a Microsoft Mobile Office (which I would prefer) or an iWork-mobile released. This would obviously include such issues as a copy/paste feature being added.
- Voice dialing: The voice memo feature that is rumored to be added in the next 1.1.3 firmware is obviously the first step towards voice dialing. Wouldn't it be great if the voice memo feature is tagged with a future iWork, which ultimately lets us dictate new documents?
- Cellular GPS: With the release of the Google GPS software. It's pretty obvious that this will become an option for the iPhone after February as well. Friends of mine in NYC say it's pretty accurate (it pinpointed his position in his apartment practically to the foot). I'd assume as you get away from dense city settings, and move towards rural suburbs, the accuracy will go down.
There are however a few issues that I agree with. I noticed that there have been several times when the iPhone will lock up when clicking a link on Safari after opening a new page, and a few seconds after a lock, it'll return to the home screen. I haven't been able to identify what was consistently doing this, but it's happened a few times now.
It'd be nice if there was a text message character counter, but also a counter for the number of texts you have sent over a certain period of time.
For those asking for a horizontal keyboard, sure, I think it'd be nice to have the option to type either vertically or horizontally, but not because of the "fat finger syndrome." For the most part, the word recognition is spot on if you're relatively close to the letter that you were aiming for. Just trust your phone
- Video capture: there's already a 3rd party app that has shown it is possible to add this with a simple program.
- Still Picture Focusing: Haven't heard about anything like this in the works, but I'm hoping it comes out with the SDK as well.
- iWork: It makes sense that Apple would like more of a push in the corporate market. It looks very likely that there will be either a Microsoft Mobile Office (which I would prefer) or an iWork-mobile released. This would obviously include such issues as a copy/paste feature being added.
- Voice dialing: The voice memo feature that is rumored to be added in the next 1.1.3 firmware is obviously the first step towards voice dialing. Wouldn't it be great if the voice memo feature is tagged with a future iWork, which ultimately lets us dictate new documents?
- Cellular GPS: With the release of the Google GPS software. It's pretty obvious that this will become an option for the iPhone after February as well. Friends of mine in NYC say it's pretty accurate (it pinpointed his position in his apartment practically to the foot). I'd assume as you get away from dense city settings, and move towards rural suburbs, the accuracy will go down.
There are however a few issues that I agree with. I noticed that there have been several times when the iPhone will lock up when clicking a link on Safari after opening a new page, and a few seconds after a lock, it'll return to the home screen. I haven't been able to identify what was consistently doing this, but it's happened a few times now.
It'd be nice if there was a text message character counter, but also a counter for the number of texts you have sent over a certain period of time.
For those asking for a horizontal keyboard, sure, I think it'd be nice to have the option to type either vertically or horizontally, but not because of the "fat finger syndrome." For the most part, the word recognition is spot on if you're relatively close to the letter that you were aiming for. Just trust your phone
You can have more than 200 emails in your inbox. That's how many are fetched. Deleting things from your inbox is good strategy anyways.
If you're really busy and you are getting huge numbers of absolutely mission critical emails that you MUST keep in your INBOX, then you need an administrative assistant to read your mail for you. You probably don't get paid for reading email.
You might consider setting up a mobile account with filers (gmail is great for this) that forwards only mission critical items to your phone. That's what I do, and keeps me from being the obnoxious mobile user always checking mail. Less email = more life.
And I confess: as I get older, I'm starting to need the search function more and more...