[Dan Frakes]

kboone34 said:

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.

Sadly, not possible -- at least not until Apple provides software support for Bluetooth keyboards. Believe me, a good number of the Macworld editorial staff will celebrate if it ever comes to pass.

[dfoltz]

I think the iPhone will be Apple's entry into the netbook field. Imagine the next generation iphone with the option to buy a 10" netbook "dock". The phone itself provides the computing power and the touch screen becomes the mousepad. This would redefine the category and give Apple a huge built in audience for such a hardware device.

[tony_d]

Seems to me that the ability to use a bluetooth keyboard, Apple or a third party, is the "cut and paste" of the 3GS. Front facing camera would be cool, but I'm surprised that some enterprising company (or person) hasn't created a case with a periscope of some sort, that would face the user.

[bferriot]

Verizon.

[DisabledTrucker]

I don't personally want ANY iPhone features, now iTouch features I'd like to see is a camera and mic on it...

[zx14nsingle]

My friend has breathing problems and cannot go above 3000ft elevation, I would like to see a altitude meter and temp sensor input so we could at least take him to safe places without affecting his oxygen.

[doglesby]

dfoltz said:

I think the iPhone will be Apple's entry into the netbook field. Imagine the next generation iphone with the option to buy a 10" netbook "dock". The phone itself provides the computing power and the touch screen becomes the mousepad. This would redefine the category and give Apple a huge built in audience for such a hardware device.

Because the Folio went over so well.

[doglesby]

The popularity of the front-facing camera shows how young your twitter audience skews. It's common knowledge that kids love the idea of video chat and adults hate it.

[Dan Frakes]

doglesby said:

The popularity of the front-facing camera shows how young your twitter audience skews. It's common knowledge that kids love the idea of video chat and adults hate it.

I don't know the demographics of all of Macworld's Twitter followers, but in the process of putting together these survey articles, over the past week I've visited the Twitter pages of several hundred who've answered the surveys, and the vast majority of those appear to be adults. Which would seem to agree with many of the Twitter demographic breakdowns I've read; for example, Pew Research reported earlier this year that the median age of a twitter user is 31.

[flowney]

That external keyboards (QWERTY, no doubt) is the #1 request supports the wisdom of Apple's tendency to ignore the short run hedonism of end users. It is totally insane to be lusting for a keyboard layout whose design is driven by the need to avoid collisions between physical keys hitting paper.
Here we are in the 21st century still following the cow path of physical typewriters. Can you imagine Spock or Kirk using a QWERTY keyboard? It simply does not compute!
What Apple needs to do and probably will do is to show us what's next. Maybe that will be a keyboard optimized for touch. Maybe it won't be a keyboard at all. It might be a way to do shorthand on a touch device.

[leftnotracks]

A sturdy clamp for a motorcycle. It should allow tilting the screen angle, rotation, and come with a watertight cover that still lets me use the screen for input. I don't have a 3GS yet, but if I designed such a device, I'd permit it to be set level with the camera unimpeded. I'd also package it with six pin-on fingertips for gloves.

[bear90039]

For memory, please put an SD Card slot to match the new MBP. And a service provider that will provide free tethering.

[bcapehart]

I want to be able to hand it to my 20-month-old like I can with my very bare-bones LG cell phone and only worry about what strange country he will call. Also being able to sit on it, have it go through the laundry, throw it across the room when I've had it up to "here" with the airline customer support line would be nice. Can they make a "Toughbook" model? I'm terrified of even touching my wife's iPod Touch.