“PleaseFixTheiPhone.com” began soliciting suggestions 12 days ago and has already generated more than 270,000 responses,” Phillip Elmer-Dewitt reports or Fortune.
Comparing that list to Wired’s “8 Things to Expect in the Next iPhone Update,” Elmer-Dewitt writes.
Elmer-Dewitt writes, “Note that not one of the iPhone’s new features appears on the user-generated list. In fact, you have scroll down to No. 18 — “Walking directions,” a new Google Maps feature — to find anything that matches.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dale E.” for the heads up.]
In no particular order…
Folders to organize icons/apps
Cut & Paste
MMS
Customizable “home” screen or app which shows daily to-do’s & appointments
Even if Apple/Adobe somehow managed to shoehorn Flash onto the iPhone, it would be slow, eat up tons of battery life, and wouldn’t support nearly every Flash website. Then people would complain why their favorite Flash site (eg 2advanced.com) wouldn’t work very well in it.
If anything, Flash is even more of “a bag of hurt” than Blu-Ray. Flash is fine for the desktop—let’s keep it that way.
i want something so when i get a new text while in another app i dont have to leave that app to text back…something so i can quick reply and keyboard pops up i send the messeage and go right back to what i was doing
Perhaps the biggest wish list item is that AT&T;would actually get their act together and improve the 3G network enough that it won’t continually drop my calls.
After several firmware updates, I’m still having way more problems with this phone than all of my other phones in the past combined.
JUST MAKE THE PHONE PLACE AND RECEIVE CALLS…
hey a phone. I had the same problem but now there is a new tower closer to where I live and it is wonderful. Calls never drop and folks say the sound is clear as a bell. Either move or wait for a tower closer to you.
You can also sign this petition :
http://www.petitiononline.com/IPMMS/petition.html
Supporting MMS as well
@Wingsy
How about reminder beeps when you’ve missed a call?
Me like a dat one!
How about sending email/sms to named groups? It’s easy enough to add people one at a time to a recipients list, but why not be able to send to ‘family’ or ‘coworkers’ by selecting just one named group? It works this way in Apple Mail.
My primitive Moto phone at least would do voice dialing over my Bluetooth headset.. who here loves trying to tap someone in your favorites at 70mph??
What about push notifications?? Wasn’t that due in September??
How about full QuickTime VR support?
How about AirTunes support?
How about holographic conference calls? I’ve seen Obi-Wan do it.
How about an email client that stores downloaded messages locally, allows you to ‘mark as read’ without opening the message, and doesn’t hang and crash every other time you use it?
Not to mention Apple did NOT include a fix for push & fetch email to work on Yahoo & Google mail users. 🙁
MMS and Flash are the biggest ones for me, and Adobe claims that they have been working on a version of Flash for iPhone, but that it’s still up to Apple to decide whether or not it is released.
I don’t even care so much about sending MMS, although it’d be nice; I’m just tired of having to go to a webpage just to view a picture or video someone else sends me. Kinda frustrating when I’m not near a computer.
“I agree… A2DP (bluetooth audio) would be killer”
It’s not a killer, just a basic, expected feature on a music phone.
As is cut and paste on a smartphone.
The “Nit Pick” list obvously list things that irritate people every day when they use the phone which for a supposed smart music phone has some strange omissions.
“it would be slow, eat up tons of battery life, and wouldn’t support nearly every Flash website.”
Why is that necessarily so? Flash runs just fine on other handsets. Adobe have Flash ready to go, why ban them from deploying it.
And why are YOU so concerned about how often I might be prepared to charge MY battery to get an extra feature?
Google Maps (or any iPhone GPS enabled app) can’t be continuously used without a car charger, So Apple already ships battery hogging built in applications, why stop 3rd parties from creating equally high battery usage but useful applications.
Not that Flash would be a battery hog, that’s just a smokescreen for the real “problem”, Flash allows creation of applications which don’t go through the App Store, so anyone can develop an application and Apple doesn’t get to veto it or get their 30% cut. Secondly the application would run on all other flash enabled phones. It might become the dominant way of delivering iPhone applications, at least for those which can be written in Flash, like say tip calculators.
OMG No flash! Ever! No way. No how!