Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: apple, iphone, mms, tethering, firmware | Themes: 3GSM, Smartphones
Yesterday Apple got iPhone fans all riled up with the announcement of a media even due to take place on March 17 in the company’s Cupertino headquarters and today foggy details are starting to emerge.
While rumors about an iPhone refresh have so far focused on new hardware as opposed to new software, the news about the OS preview was well received and you guys were full of ideas about what you’d like to see on iPhone 3.0.
The invitation itself didn’t offer any clues of what the new operating system will feature aside from a few mysterious sentences detailing the preview will be an advance showing of what the company is currently building.
The Boy Genius Report yesterday afternoon claimed that the new update will have the obvious MMS functionality that so many of you sorely miss with the current iPhones. That said, there was a similar rumor about MMS for iPhone 2.0 and nothing came of it. The slightly juicer bit of gossip is that it’s also going to include support for tethering via Bluetooth and USB. No word on copy & paste yet but it seems inevitable at this stage.
Some of you guys posted your own wish lists yesterday, and what you want, we want. So far we’ve got copy & paste, the ability to use a GPS 'find' function, such as the Google app available for Blackberrys, the ability to run apps in the background, fully functional stereo Bluetooth, MMS, Flash, a shopping cart for the app store instead of purchasing and installing apps individually (we really like that one!).
What have we/you guys left out? Anything else you’d like to see on iPhone 3.0. More to the point, do you think Apple is likely to leave out any of these features for a third year running and why?
March 17, 10 a.m. PDT. We’ll keep you posted.
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My hit list ...
- Copy & Paste (duhhh)
- a better way to (re-)organize lots of icons
- Adobe Flash player
- maintain threads in mail application (gmail)
- memory clean-up and status
- bookmark in Apps (to retrieve an app later)
- easy way to enable/disable screen rotation
- open Calendar to allow other apps (i.e. ToDo)
"More to the point, do you think Apple is likely to leave out any of these features for a third year running and why?"
Well, as long as people keep blindly buying there products and not look around to see what the competition has to offer, Apple will keep on doing what they think is better for bu$ine$$ and not listen to what there customers want.
Copy \ paste !!
adobe flash !!
Picture TXT --> MMS !!!!
thats all, not askin too much, everything else i can happily live with.
Any word if this will just be an OS upgrade or some sort of new phone included? Can iPhone 2.0 users upgrade to the 3.0 OS or are we out of luck?
I have a family member who might buy an iPhone today... I guess they could wait a week to find out.
With the way apple runs, I would honestly say that they will not fix it till they have a new phone they can charge you for again that contains those features, but is missing others. It is the best way to make money, and as someone said earlier, since fanboys blindly buy those products, it is the way they will continue to run.
Everything as far as software goes has already been listed. There may be a way of doing this that I just don't know about, but can you use the horizontal keyboard for writing SMS msgs yet? I know you can in the browser, but what about whilst texting?
Also, in terms of hardware (in order):
- Better reception
- Better battery life
- Louder speaker
How about adding the ability to take and send videos?
iphone got no copy and paste??? stupid phone..
I go to AT&T and look at the phones that they give away to customers in groups of 5. I want the iPhone to at least have all the features those pile of shit phones do. MMS, Voice Dialing, etc.
No voice dialing? Surely you just mean without bluetooth/headset.
Sadly some of these things are missing from the G1 as well. No MMS/video recording. No copy-paste. No flash (but it is coming). Apparently the common trend it to make these phones as impractical as possible.
I'm not sure what to call phones like the G1 and iPhone. They aren't really PDAs, but the aren't really cell-phones either. They fall right in the middle, lacking functionality you would want from either end.
No voice dialing? Surely you just mean without bluetooth/headset.Sadly some of these things are missing from the G1 as well. No MMS/video recording. No copy-paste. No flash (but it is coming). Apparently the common trend it to make these phones as impractical as possible.I'm not sure what to call phones like the G1 and iPhone. They aren't really PDAs, but the aren't really cell-phones either. They fall right in the middle, lacking functionality you would want from either end.
Sadly, no. You cannot voice dial on the iPhone without a third party app and those are just a pain in the ass to use.
Everyone says Windows Mobile "sucks" but Mobile 7.0 is going to have all of those features. Maybe if they can get it on a handset that doesn't suck I'll switch from this iPhone.
How about support for other audio formats such as OGG or FLAC?
How about simply putting out the iPhone for people who refuse to use AT&T? Setting up restrictive contracts like that is stupid. The iPhone is probably the only reason AT&T still has customers! lol
Verizon dominates the market I'm in for sure. Personally I love Verizon, and would rather buy a Blackberry Storm simply because it's Verizon. The iPhone isn't worth switching to AT&T for, as they are simply horrible in my area.
3.0 looks ok,
Would like copy n paste (be first phone that i know of with this feature,, ,,,, well except Palm)
disable screen rotation.. that'd be nice, sometimes i don't want it to flip, seriously the accelerometer is sensitive (but accurate)
As far as changing carriers, I honestly don't think Verizon is going to give up its VCAST to allow the likes of Itunes stepping in on their territory. By far, apple sets the standard that other phones are trying to copy.
I don't think the Iphone is going to get any new hardware updates till the end of the year or beginning next. Only hardware change would be either minor upgrades or a nano-version or forward vid conferance camera
"Sadly some of these things are missing from the G1 as well. No MMS/video recording. No copy-paste. No flash (but it is coming). Apparently the common trend it to make these phones as impractical as possible."
Hellwig, I'm not sure what G1 you've been using, but the G1 I own definitely has copy/paste and MMS. It is lacking Flash and video recording, but the video recording should be taken care of in April with the supposed "cupcake" update.
Wow all these things people want on the i phone.. Im glad i got a phone that already has all of it. Love my storm.
My wishlist..
yeah i actualy dont really care what it gets actualy.
"Would like copy n paste (be first phone that i know of with this feature,, ,,,, well except Palm)"
Apparently you've never used Windows Mobile. It's had copy paste for a while now.