[Macworld]

Post your comments for What iPhone hardware feature or accessory do you want most? here

[cat4ever]

The accessory I'd really like is...
the iPhone itself. Ordered from ATT and it's on back order with not even an estimated date of arrival.

[PocketRadio]

"last year the hd alliance tried to put the spin on the macworld, claiming that jobs was adding hd radio to the iphone. this year the hd radio alliance can't even get their lies straight. i think this truly is the swan song for ibiquity. they can't carry on much longer. they've exhausted all lies, exaggerations and bullcrap."

http://tinyurl.com/85jd4v

Right! And, HD Radio is number two - LOL! HD Radio is a farce!

http://hdradiofarce.blogspot.com

[doglesby]

Put me in for the OLED screen.
I can't believe no one requested a Google Maps-integrated transporter. Just select a location in the Maps app, press a button, and you're there.

[PocketRadio]

"Microsoft: We Couldn’t Kill the iPod, Maybe We Can Kill the iPod touch"

"FM radio was touted in the original Zunes. Lots of music players added radio since it was considered a major feature the iPod lacked. Nope. Including FM didn’t make the devices more desirable than an iPod. Now it’s HD radio, which is FM (and AM) with better quality because it’s digital (remember, the word 'digital' makes everything better). So Microsoft is clinging to the belief that FM radio is still what every music device needs, it was obviously just the quality of the signal that was the problem."

http://tinyurl.com/nvrawh

[PocketRadio]

"New iPhone – No FM"

"New iPhone -- No FM was the headline that appeared in an Inside Radio email yesterday after Apple announced its next iPhone. Inside Radio was just reporting the news but perhaps you remember those fanatical die-hards who swore they would be able to convince Apple CEO Steve Jobs to add an FM radio link to its popular smart phone. Fat chance."

http://tinyurl.com/ko92bx

[DogHouseDub]

Here's your iPhone with FM radio:
http://www.macmedics...d-ebay-auction/

[jgowrie]

I would like to see an external mic input to allow audio recording from a mixing board or a high end microphone. There are plenty of apps for musicians but we are stuck using the built in mic which has not ability to adjust the level entering the iphone. A work-around is possible with A/V cables but it's clumsy.

[PocketRadio]

"Back in January, I mentioned that iLounge had carried a news item on December 28, 2007, which claimed that Apple would be introducing an iTunes-tagging-capable HD Radio boom box at the 2008 Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco later that month. On-line radio trades, like Radio Ink, picked it up as the first news story of 2008. Just so you can follow the ruse. The 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show was opening in Las Vegas on January 10 followed by MacWorld in San Francisco on January 15. The HD Digital Radio Alliance capo Peter 'Sgt. Bilk-o' Ferrara proclaimed his planted tale to be a sign that Steve Jobs was essentially endorsing HD Radio. In reality, he wanted his latest fabrication to spread to the mainstream press."

http://gormanmediabl...ogspot.com/20081101_archive.html

A ruse - just like this poll and your counterfeit-iPhone.

[Dan Frakes]

PocketRadio, if you'd like to contribute to discussion of the article, please do. But so far you're just posting quotes from, and links to, random articles about HD Radio.

[dreyfus]

In other words: except for the external keyboard and front-facing camera, there was not a single request that achieved a percentage that should make Apple even think about it... That is truly amazing. Adding a BT-stack for input devices and some logic to hide the on-screen keyboard if an external one is present, should be a no-brainer. Enough third parties would make them. A front facing camera is a cheap addition, and its absence much more likely a concession to the carriers. How many complaints would AT&T have to handle, if video chat was a feature people were paying money for... Even with fully developed European networks (those supporting HSDPA 7.2 and HSUPA), video telephony (even if charged extra) is a pretty poor experience, and it is not the phone manufacturers setting the limits here. We have internal video telephony in the company (LAN-based), more than 90% of users have video manually set to "not available" 100% of the time. It is intimidating and likely one of the features most people will never use again after initially checking out if it works. As all people will check it out the very minute Apple ships it, most will find that it does not work anyhow :-)
More revealing are the numbers for the radio (FM, HD, etc.) features... Maybe MS should re-think (assuming an initial think was involved) the Zune HD feature list... a lower resolution screen, no apps and radio features almost nobody wants are not really convincing for an iPod Touch killer it seems.

[PocketRadio]

Polls, expecially those that include HD Radio and analog FM-tuners, such as this one, are a ruse. Right, with hundreds of radio apps, such as Pandora, Slacker, Last.fm, Live365, iheartradio, etc consumers are demanding built-in FM-tuners - my articles imply, otherwise. Terrestrial radio is so desperate that they try and influence such polls, including the iLounge poll, a while back. Surely, Jobs is smart enough to see through such baloney. Terrertrial radio is first trying to get FM-tuners installed, then HD Radio chipsets that are very power-hungry and require diversity-antennas to have even a chance to pick-up the fragile digital signals. iBiquity CEO Struble is trying to influence the FCC, by make-believe consumer demand, in order to justify the -10db power increase in FM-HD Radio, which will destroy the smaller, community-based radio stations - since his investors are the large radio groups, that is the plan. Seems that I have hit a nerve.

[kboone34]

How about Apple's product just working with Apple's product. How is it that the Apple bluetooth keyboard is not recognizes by the iPhone. Man with a cool little stand (they can be found everywhere) to set the phone in landscape mode, just in front of a bluetooth keyboard for typing long documents while on the road. That would be just too sweet. Someone please tell me this is old new now, and that with the new 3Gs or the update, that this is possible.

[dreyfus]

Another thought... One person wants ADB, but no one wants Mini-Display Port? After all my experiences with MDP so far, this is one statistic I believe without making it up myself :-)