[Macworld]

Post your comments for Analysis: Revisiting our iPhone wish list here

[b3baby]

I want to be able to make all text entries with the phone horizontal, ie text messaging, notes, etc. I like the wide keyboard.

[Sunastar]

For GPS, why not communicate between a GPS device and the iPhone via BlueTooth? Keep your GPS in your pocket. No need to clutter up the iPhone with all sorts of optional hardware.

[TheBum]

Sunastar said:

For GPS, why not communicate between a GPS device and the iPhone via BlueTooth? Keep your GPS in your pocket. No need to clutter up the iPhone with all sorts of optional hardware.

You beat me to it. While technically it does mean adding hardware, the hardware would be external to the iPhone, so current models should be able to take advantage of it. I have a Bluetooth GPS just waiting for the opportunity.

[Chuck321]

I want to be able to access wifi at university. This currently can not be done as the login requires both a user name and password. The iPhone only asks for a password when connecting to wifi. Surely a device that is meant to give such great connectivity should support this.

[TheBum]

> Apple has still revealed no plans to incorporate the same manual disk mode found on iPods, including the iPod touch
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I have mixed feelings about this one. While it would be a handy feature to have, my workplace currently forbids iPhones on the premises due to the misconception that an iPhone can be used like a thumb drive; iPods are prohibited for the same reason. Having the iPhone be able to act like a hard drive on my Windows work PC would pretty much seal that fate. At least with that feature missing, there's a chance of acceptance.

[tms]

3G? Who currently has regular access to that in the US? Oh, right... only people in the largest Metro areas. Only a portion of the people in the entire market should care at present. This technology is certainly not most places. And with technology available at the time of release the power consumption was far too great. I would venture that a great many people are quite happy with their long battery life, and only a minority percentage would even be in an area to take advantage of possible 3G connectivity. Instead, complain to the wireless providers who keep America in the Dark Ages of wireless technology. (those of you who want more out of 3G) Once a service is ubiquitous, then it makes sense to make a product for it. (when the product is designed for more than a niche market)

[apeach]

OS X has for years been able to do voice recognition and synthesis. I used to use it to say a name in the address book, then let the computer dial the number over bluetooth to my pre-iPhone cell. So why is there no voice dialing over bluetooth on the iPhone? This is both an important upgrade, and a safety issue while driving. Imagine iPhone software that when asked by voice over bluetooth, could read your email, to do's, Google map directions, etc. using voice synthesis. Add voice recognition and speech synthesis to Google Maps, and you could have Google maps read you the start direction, when finished with the first direction, you just say "next" and the next direction of the route is read. Admittedly it is not GPS, but it would avoid fumbling with the phone while driving and trying to follow map directions. With the Universal Access features of OS X, how hard can this be? I am shocked it is not the number one feature on the wishlist.

[maclia]

I want a stand-alone "contacts" button on the main screen, instead of forcing me to hit the "phone" button first.

[iloverobots]

Email (and note) Search.... Trying scrolling through 500 emails a handful at a time looking for one specific thing... not fun over WiFi and painful over EDGE

[Greenldr]

Lack of 802.1x support has been the absolute #1 complaint for me. Given the lack of 3G especially, this is an absolute must feature to make the iPhone truly the internet in your pocket...

[doglesby]

I've looked at AT&T's map and everyone in my family lives in an area with 3G coverage. My father, my mother, my grandparents, both my brothers, and I (of that list only my younger brother and father live in the same state and they are still in different cities) all have it. That covers anywhere I've been for more than 2 days in the last 3 years.

[doglesby]

I'm more interested in the interactions of existing applications. When I create an event, I should have a Google maps-style button to select a location from my address book (e.g., Mark's office, Tom's home). When I view an event I should be able to tap a button to map the location. When I enter a teleconference event, there should be a phone number field that I can dial with one touch (and some solution for entering the coference code too). When someone sends me with an iCal event attached, I should be able to tap the event and open iCal. These are all apps that are already present. They need to work together a little better.

Someone should ask why any app wouldn't rotate. Mail and iTunes Wifi are the ones I frequently run into problems with because information is too small to read or elided for the narrow view. It's a real pain to look at classical music on the wifi store (hmm, Symphony number 8 in e-flat Major..., so which movement is that?). I'm less interested in entering information in landscape, the screen is too short, moving the cursor becomes an excercise in frustration (oh, I can see the bottom of the loupe but not the text or cursor). I'd be more interested in seeing Safari take wide fields like this one and make them iPhone-screen-sized. That's the worst part of portrait typing for me. The text is way off the screen instead of wrapping so I can see what I'm saying.

[csmaynard]

Do you believe there will be a central marketplace for iPhone's 3rd party applications post-February? Apple's application site is decent, but I wonder if they would host 3rd parties that required you to pay.

My only problem with the expansion to 3rd party is that it may be dumped to the public without alot of thought about easy access and location. Efficiency at work is going to go way down as millions of workers spend their days searching for 3rd party applications. I think I just discovered a new way the iPhone will change the world. Instead of blocking Tetris on work computers, employers will block iPhone keywords!