[montgomery_burns]

TheBum said:

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.

Just curious, does your workplace also forbid cameras or camera phones?

[DisabledTrucker]

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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.{quote}

This would be dangerous, especially if you asked it for directions from NYC to France... (sorry old joke...)

[derekm]

The iPhone has international keyboard support? Only if you count a few accented roman characters. Good luck at selling the iPhone in China or Japan without the input method that has been included with all versions of Mac OS X (and a easy add-on for Mac OS 9 and prior).

What's the barrier? RAM? Not actually running Mac OS X? Lack of incentive?

[DisabledTrucker]

{quote:title=tms wrote:}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.{quote}

Okay, you want to know who has regular access, you answered it yourself, the people who live in the largest Metro areas, which make up at least 65% of the population! Sure it's a portion of the people in the entire market, but it's a LARGE portion of them. By years end, AT&T is claiming to have it fully deployed here in the US, I'm sure they are also waiting for some help from T-Mobile in their markets as well, since they do "share" each others lines.

[sven70]

As an Australian Macworld reader I have one very simple iPhone wish... I just want to be able to buy one! Come on Apple bring the iPhone downunder!!

[Islander214]

I just want a percent button on the calculator. How hard is that?

[jg167]

"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."

Because iPhone does not support the serial profile for BT that GPS devices use. Making support of this (and other BT profiles for stereo head sets, disk, and what not) the top item I desire in an iPhone. I think this is only sw so could buy a phone now, but would rather wait till its supported to be sure. Hope it will be announced next week at MW.

[heyjp]

My priority list is:

Generalized Search... especially in contacts. I have 2200 names and if i could just tap 2 or 3 letters, i could find them quicker than scrolling. Also, I have a bunch of people that I remember the context but not their name. I find them by searching against the notes section. Apple AddressBook is beautiful in this regard. The search searches instantly the name, company, and notes fields.

My Locations... the GoogleMaps implementation of "poor man GPS" will be terrific. When I'm out driving I would like it to locate where I am roughly with a single click instead of trying to read street signs and type an intersection name ;-( 1000 feet if WAY close enough to be VERY useful.

MMS... very frustrating that I can't zip a photo to my buddies on their iPhones or other phones. Yes, I can send them an email with a picture, but it's buried in their email and may not reach their phone. MMS... Picture on my phone. BOOM. Picture on their phone. Not on their desktop the next morning.

That's it. The other 235 features would be lovely. But I would like this 3, in that order. Of course, that's my style of phone use.

Jim

[KGBguy]

Guys you haven't gotten over the iPhone?! Needless to say it is worthless.
Get yourself a Treo and you will be happy camper.

[derkathon]

Macworld said:

There is, however, light dawning on the horizon. We complained in our original list about Apple?s locked-down approach, which prohibited any third-party applications on the phone. The announcement from Steve Jobs that a Software Development Kit for the iPhone is due in February gives us hope that even if Apple does not roll many of these features into future software updates, the army of eager third-party developers will.

I only hope that they don't lock down the distribution for third-party applications. That could put a serious damper on applications that might compete with ATT, such as an AIM client that was described in the article as all but given once the SDK is released.

[JScott]

I'd like to see an SD card slot added. 8 or even 16Gb is not enough space.

[alvino]

I don't see this 'wish' very often, but I would pay big bucks (up to $1K+) for an iPhone that runs some reduced version of iWork.

Numbers - needed for finance and lists, able to read co-worker's Excel documents.

Pages - This could be the editor of choice. Doesn't have to be complex. Should read Word docs though.

Keynote - What would I pay for a pocket-sized portable presentation device??? Video out makes this possible; how fun would it be to walk up to a projector in a conference room, whip out your iphone and give a presentation?

I realize that iWork would suck up a bit of memory to run, so the iPhone would have to sport a minimum of 16G or 32G, but I assume that's already in the works. An optional (but nice) feature gadget could be the addition of a blue-tooth coupled keyboard.

Again, I would pay big bucks for such a phone. iWork is a great suite and it would be fun to see it introduced to the masses via iPhone... also might be a huge incentive approach to get PC-tethered folks into some additional great Mac software beyond iTunes.

[csmaynard]

How will Apple protect the iPhone from viruses once 3rd-Party applications hit? This of course is only a concern for those of us that didn't jailbreak because we were wary of the random stuff out there. I hope Apple has some level of control over these new applications. Especially if an 11 year old just wrote the iPhone's first Trojan!

[Chuck321]

It would also be nice if Calendar on the iPhone used the same colours as iCal on my Mac. This would make a quick glance at the calendar screen far more informative. Having just blue is a bit of a disappointment.