So after just over a month with my iPhone, I have a list of things which I would like to see pushed as a software/firmware update to the phone. As far as I know, none of these would require hardware changes.
- Highlight, Copy & Paste. I’m not entirely sure why this was left out in the first place.
- Landscape Mode in SMS and Email Applications. Again, not sure why this was left out.
- Video Support. Let me take short videos with sound. Add a button to automatically upload to YouTube and/or my .Mac Web Gallery.
- MMS. No reason why a camera phone shouldn’t be able to send and receive picture and video messages.
- Group Messaging. Sending one message to one person at a time is annoying. Change it.
- Bluetooth Auto-Syncing. I would like to be able to sync via bluetooth. With this, I’d like the option to select which things I would like to sync in this manner. Calendar, Address Book, Bookmarks and Mail should be a no-brainer. Syncing the iPod over bluetooth would be pretty maddening, so I’d pass on that. Also, I would like this to work automatically, with both the computer and the iPhone detecting changes on the other. I don’t want to have to push buttons for the basic stuff.
- Smarter Google Maps. If I navigate away from from the Google Maps application, don’t send me back to the start of my directions. Remember where I was, and start back there when I tap the Maps icon again.
- Smarter Weather & Stocks. In the weather and stock applications, let me select a frequency at which the data will be automatically updated. This will avoid me loading up either application while I’m out of service area and having the data displayed be a day old, or not displayed at all.
- Add GPS support via Bluetooth. This will let me carry a small GPS receiver in my pocket and interface with that via the Google Maps application.
- Make the Notes sync with something. I am assuming this is coming with Leopard and the new Mail.app, but it is annoying now. If for some reason I have to restore my iPhone, my notes are gone. Not cool.
Actually I don’t think the GPS should be done with another device. You can pull that information relatively easy from the network you’re cell signal is on.
Even my RAZR can do this rather easily. Sure it might include an extra fee if this was avaliable with the iPhone.
I personally don’t want to carry anymore devices than I absolutely have to.
If this functionality does come, it’d be nifty to use that with an external camera (higher mega pixel) to add to it’s tags.
Pulling the data from the towers isn’t true GPS, though, as far as I understand it. It won’t be nearly as accurate.
As for the camera, I’m not too worried about having a high-megapixel camera in my phone. A camera phone is for quick “you gotta see this” snaps, in my opinion. I really don’t need a lot of features with that. Just a quick camera, with video capability.