Saturday, January 16, 2010

iPhone OS 4.0 List





Some of the things i would like to see in the next iPhone and its OS.

Send MMS messages over wifi.
i work at a hospital. most of my time i am either walking through lead walled hallways or i am in the basement with no service. however they do have wifi. so allow me to send MMS over the wifi. i do not see the problem with it. right now if i want to send a text to someone i have to use google voice. since it requires me to have a new number it gets messy, so just fix this AT&T.

Built in photo tools such as sepia, black & white, frames, ext.
on even the most basic of phones the ability to take a photo in sepia or black and white is available. i mean even on the ipod nano now they allow filters during video recording. why not bring that technology to the iphone.

Ability to listen to ipod music in background regardless of the app.
i cant tell you how many times i have started up fieldrunners to find my music stop playing. i end up just not playing that game simply because i cant listen to my own music during it. make ipod music a background option across the board please.

View faces within contact app and messages app
this one seems like a no brainer. allow me to see the image of the contact within the contact app and also the messages app.

Take messages app information off the phone
their are MMS sessions i would love to have copies of off of my phone. to show what someone said, or give someone a reference point of a convo.

Allow for Disk mode an Bluetooth information transfer
its a hard drive with a screen. they allow it on the ipod classics, so why not allow the iphone and ipod touches disk mode. also since bluetooth is so fast why not allow for quick bluetooth transfers of information between devices or between itunes.

New map types like overlays
Apple just recently purchased a maps company called Placebase. mainly because Apple and google are becoming rivals in almost every industry the two companies participate in. so it is only natural that they part ways. since the iphone uses google maps they needed a new source. hopefully the new maps company will allow for a new kind of mapping on a device. such as overlays like weather or traffic. even weird custom ones like 3G coverage or killer bee migration.

iCal location search
when i sync ical information to my iphone sometimes i will have location information within an event. yet when i click on the location nothing happens. i feel like it should jump into the maps app and show me directions.

Stream content from itunes to iphone
there is an app that allows an iphone to control an itunes library which is nice. but i want to be able to stream content from my itunes library to my device. for instance i want to watch a TV show in bed on my iphone and done feel like going and sitting in my chair to enjoy it. why not have an app that streams the content so i can enjoy it anywhere in the house.

Queue up texts
i would really like to queue up texts so when my phone gets service it automatically sends them. instead of playing the game were i stare at my phone until i see the little ...searching to go away.

Aluminum case
i love the aluminum casing on the 1st gen iphone. i have always felt that the 3G and the 3GS plastic casings felt a little cheap for an apple product. so it would be really nice if they could find a way to get back to the anadized aluminum look. i know that the reason they dont is simply due to thermal considerations, but if they could make it work i would be uber excited.



Lock screen change
the lock screen is just not good enough. it should have way more customization on what can be viewed. more details of texts and emails, and even widgets like weather or stocks.








App navigation
i have 8 screens of apps. it is quite a hassle getting to the 8th screen. their should be some kind of expose of the screens or something. much like what Ocean Observations came up with.







FLASH
it has been done to death, but seriously apple. you and adobe have a great relationship together make this work!


Remove apple apps or at least hide them like nike plus
Stocks, weather, compass, and voice memos are all apps i do not use. and even if i did i would download a much better app on the app store to do the job. make them hide able just like nike plus is.







Flash for the camera
Apple was recently quoted buying a ton of LED flash bulbs. so they will probably be putting flash into the next phone. i'm hoping the logo is what flashes. would be so sweet!

5 MP camera with HD video Recording
i want the camera to be amazing. the processor can handle the HD it is just a matter of fitting a sensor into the phone and making it affordable.

Multi-tasking
the palm pre does it and still manages to have mediocre battery life. it sure would be nice.Ocean Observation came also came up with a cool multi-tasking view.

1 comment:

sjankney said...

I want to see landscape view integration on every Apple pre-loaded app.

I want Apple to release either a first party device or contract outside to develop an actual controller type device for the iPhone. This thing is already stealing market share from the PSP and the DS want capitalize on that and drop the bomb on handheld gaming all together. Not exactly like this: http://www.instablogsimages.com/images/2008/11/18/ipodtouchnano_2_F7tsU_54.jpg but something similar would definitely be cool!

Other than that, I agree with all your other choices, they are things that could definitely use fixing. CAN'T WAIT TILL THE 27TH!!