One wonders about the age of some of the posters on this forum who become so irate that anyone could possibly point out significant deficiencies in the iPhone. It's as if someone dissed their favorite boy band.
The iPhone is a fun, wonderful gadget that nevertheless has some very significant deficiencies as a phone & messaging device. I am very hopeful they are addressed with a firmware update. Unlike any other mobile phone I have owned, I am unable to text mulitiple parties simultaneously or copy/forward elements of a text (or email where supported) to a third party. This is ridiculous, but one I think should be easily fixed with the first firmware update although I am stunned it was released without it to be honest.
Everyone I know texts, and everyone I know text multiple recipients with one message regularly.
I have yet to hear my iPhone ringing when walking in Manhattan. I have not had that problem with other phones. Vibration mode is not strong enough but the ringer is truly deficient, and the speaker volume must rank up there with the worst I have encountered on a mobile phone. Not sure if a firmware update can address this but live in hope.
It seems Apple will be slow in addressing user issues, but if pened up to the creativity of 3rd parties, the iPhone could be a phenomenal device capable of meeting every esoteric need. Unfortunately, I dont think this will happen anytime soon, but texts messaging should be.
Some very basic cell phone functions need improvement. This is it's primary function after all...
What I would like to see most is an INCOMING / OUTGOING call display.
While the "recents" is quite beautiful, it is not very useful and damn confusing when attempting to check which particular phone number you dialed, which leads me to.....
A proper ADDRESS BOOK applet -- I find that I am often mis-dialing / emailing / texting people. Comic example of the day: I texted two messages to my buddy that i intended for my girlfriend. I often misdial my girlfriend's home phone vs. cell phone. 'Favorites' and 'Contacts' are not the most intuitive (or optimal) user interface functions.
I am very hopeful they are addressed with a firmware update. Unlike any other mobile phone I have owned, I am unable to text mulitiple parties simultaneously or copy/forward elements of a text (or email where supported) to a third party. This is ridiculous,
Well it can be easily debated how important is such a feature to call its absence ridiculous. I was never a hardcore texter so the ability to send multiple texts is not important to me, but I can see how it could be useful as a novel feature.
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I texted two messages to my buddy that i intended for my girlfriend. I often misdial my girlfriend's home phone vs. cell phone.
I am curious as to how did you do this? To initiate a text you have to go into the specific contact. Or in the text app itself you type the name of the person you want to text. And at the top of every text conversation it clearly says the name or phone number of the person you are texting.
I don't mean to come off indignant. But I'm not sure what Apple can do to solve not paying attention.
Microsoft Exchange support (besides IMAP). RPC/DAV/ActiveSync?
Cut/Copy/Paste functionality!!!
SSL VPN client
SSH client
ARD VNC & RDC
MMS
Java/Flash support
.Mac integration
SlingPlayer client
Custom ring tones
VOIP
BCC field in Mail
GPS support
iTunes Music Store
Native iChat app (Yahoo, AIM etc)
Voice dial
Bluetooth sync with iTunes
Local file system browser
Video recording
Tethering via BT
Native disk mode
WPA support for Wi-fi
To-do list app
Bonjour sharing maybe
SDK - DUH!
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Great list! All are possible technically, except GPS, I think.
Even that wouldn't need a hardware update if it allowed GPS reception from a Bluetooth receiver.
All of the above are much needed in my opinion. Saying that, I'll still be buying one when the come to the UK, even if they have no additional features over the current version!
And waht did we get? Sweet Fuck all feature issues addressed in new firmware,... Feel like returning the phone. Will check to see if I can. No, I mean, no new features from what I can tell. Some bug fixes. No ability to text ,multiple recipients and still volume issues.
shee-oot, i just realized that the damn thing won't play HD podcasts, the same ones that the Apple TV plays. WTH is up with that. bah. I say if they play on the Apple TV they should play on the stupid phone. H.264 should scale, right?
shee-oot, i just realized that the damn thing won't play HD podcasts, the same ones that the Apple TV plays. WTH is up with that. bah. I say if they play on the Apple TV they should play on the stupid phone. H.264 should scale, right?
And waht did we get? Sweet Fuck all feature issues addressed in new firmware,... Feel like returning the phone. Will check to see if I can. No, I mean, no new features from what I can tell. Some bug fixes
You think Apple should be more concerned with new apps over fixing security holes and bugs in the current apps?
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i just realized that the damn thing won't play HD podcasts
Not sure if you are joking or not, lets hope you are. Processing HD is beyond the ability of the hardware in the phone and if it could you would never see the difference on a 3 inch screen.
So, the bad news is that 1.0.1 didn't bring any shiny new features (it was a "dot dot" release after all).
But the good news is that it:
- kept Apple's security cred high before Black Hat
- made Safari more stable for many people (patching memory leaks & buffer overruns would have helped both security and stability)
- added bcc: to Mail
- made Mail more responsive
- other subtle bug fixes that some have been noticing (louder speaker sound?) etc
and...
- didn't undo any of the work of the iPhone dev wiki team working to unlock it for international owners (a lot of US people don't realize how desperately this is needed because of Apple's pigheadedness about locking it up to one carrier and cutting their overseas fans off)
- jailbreak still works
- custom ringtones, etc all still fine
- 3rd party app development not set back at all
Not too bad for a x.0.1 release, from a "could have been worse" angle.
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the ability to sign into youtube, and rate the videos from your phone
Actually, only FEMA is an acronym. The rest of the terms listed (e.g. FBI) are initialisms.
OK, I stand corrected.
1. LOUDER RINGER!!!!!!
2. Use any sound or song as a ringtone.(From iTunes or whatnot)
3. Copy/Paste Feature
4. Quicktime to play videos from yahoo movies and such
5. A built in shaver for those days when you're just feeling a bit bristly.
Quicktime to play videos from yahoo movies and such
It can, the video has to be of a small size and bit rate.
Agree re - cut & paste, itunes ring tones, to do list, syncing of notes, able to add invites to cal from an email.
It can, the video has to be of a small size and bit rate.
I ALWAYS get an error saying "Safari cannot download this file." I have yet to find a video that it CAN play with exception of youtube.
I ALWAYS get an error saying "Safari cannot download this file." I have yet to find a video that it CAN play with exception of youtube.
Apple movie trailers.
Apple trailer that plays on iPhone
Encoding H.264
Pixels Size 320x130
Data Size 4.38MB
Data Rate 332.03 kbps
480P video on Yahoo Movies:
Encoding H.264
Pixel Size 853x362
Data Size 31.09MB
Data Rate 2.8 Mbps
And DON'T tell me I can just eMail them to myself and then wait for a 300MB pdf to download first (over EDGE) everytime i want to view it
... and ringtones from my own library.
The iPhone is a fun, wonderful gadget that nevertheless has some very significant deficiencies as a phone & messaging device. I am very hopeful they are addressed with a firmware update. Unlike any other mobile phone I have owned, I am unable to text mulitiple parties simultaneously or copy/forward elements of a text (or email where supported) to a third party. This is ridiculous, but one I think should be easily fixed with the first firmware update although I am stunned it was released without it to be honest.
Everyone I know texts, and everyone I know text multiple recipients with one message regularly.
I have yet to hear my iPhone ringing when walking in Manhattan. I have not had that problem with other phones. Vibration mode is not strong enough but the ringer is truly deficient, and the speaker volume must rank up there with the worst I have encountered on a mobile phone. Not sure if a firmware update can address this but live in hope.
It seems Apple will be slow in addressing user issues, but if pened up to the creativity of 3rd parties, the iPhone could be a phenomenal device capable of meeting every esoteric need. Unfortunately, I dont think this will happen anytime soon, but texts messaging should be.
What I would like to see most is an INCOMING / OUTGOING call display.
While the "recents" is quite beautiful, it is not very useful and damn confusing when attempting to check which particular phone number you dialed, which leads me to.....
A proper ADDRESS BOOK applet -- I find that I am often mis-dialing / emailing / texting people. Comic example of the day: I texted two messages to my buddy that i intended for my girlfriend. I often misdial my girlfriend's home phone vs. cell phone. 'Favorites' and 'Contacts' are not the most intuitive (or optimal) user interface functions.
Multiple recipient SMS is needed ASAP
All criticisms aside, the phone is phenomenal
I am very hopeful they are addressed with a firmware update. Unlike any other mobile phone I have owned, I am unable to text mulitiple parties simultaneously or copy/forward elements of a text (or email where supported) to a third party. This is ridiculous,
Well it can be easily debated how important is such a feature to call its absence ridiculous. I was never a hardcore texter so the ability to send multiple texts is not important to me, but I can see how it could be useful as a novel feature.
I texted two messages to my buddy that i intended for my girlfriend. I often misdial my girlfriend's home phone vs. cell phone.
I am curious as to how did you do this? To initiate a text you have to go into the specific contact. Or in the text app itself you type the name of the person you want to text. And at the top of every text conversation it clearly says the name or phone number of the person you are texting.
I don't mean to come off indignant. But I'm not sure what Apple can do to solve not paying attention.
My iPhone wish list:
Microsoft Exchange support (besides IMAP). RPC/DAV/ActiveSync?
Cut/Copy/Paste functionality!!!
SSL VPN client
SSH client
ARD VNC & RDC
MMS
Java/Flash support
.Mac integration
SlingPlayer client
Custom ring tones
VOIP
BCC field in Mail
GPS support
iTunes Music Store
Native iChat app (Yahoo, AIM etc)
Voice dial
Bluetooth sync with iTunes
Local file system browser
Video recording
Tethering via BT
Native disk mode
WPA support for Wi-fi
To-do list app
Bonjour sharing maybe
SDK - DUH!
Great list! All are possible technically, except GPS, I think.
Even that wouldn't need a hardware update if it allowed GPS reception from a Bluetooth receiver.
All of the above are much needed in my opinion. Saying that, I'll still be buying one when the come to the UK, even if they have no additional features over the current version!
Bugfixes.
iPhone OS:
Home-screen - drag-n-drop reordering
File manager with Leopard CoverFlow and QuickLook
Cut-Copy-Pasting
Expose window switching
Spotlight Searching
Get rid of the rolodex/dial interface and replace with something better
USB drive option
SDK
(Essentially start turning the iPhone into a Mac OS X computer. Would really require 256 MB of RAM so probably won't happen until iPhone gen 2)
Phone app:
Keyboard based contact search
Call log
Safari:
Flash (2 minds about this; wonderful for embedded flash movies, horrible for adds and those stupid movie websites)
Camera:
Image stabilization
Video recording at 480x300 H.264
Games:
Have a few
Calculator:
Scientific option
Notes:
Sync with Outlook, blah blah
Text:
Instant messaging option
You can go on and on and on.
add this to the wishlist.
shee-oot, i just realized that the damn thing won't play HD podcasts, the same ones that the Apple TV plays. WTH is up with that. bah. I say if they play on the Apple TV they should play on the stupid phone. H.264 should scale, right?
add this to the wishlist.
MISSED CALL/TEXT MESSAGE REMINDER BEEPS/VIBRATIONS!!!
And waht did we get? Sweet Fuck all feature issues addressed in new firmware,... Feel like returning the phone. Will check to see if I can. No, I mean, no new features from what I can tell. Some bug fixes
You think Apple should be more concerned with new apps over fixing security holes and bugs in the current apps?
i just realized that the damn thing won't play HD podcasts
Not sure if you are joking or not, lets hope you are. Processing HD is beyond the ability of the hardware in the phone and if it could you would never see the difference on a 3 inch screen.
i just realized that the damn thing won't play HD podcasts
Yeah, and I still can't run CS3 on my iPhone either. I really wanted to work on some Desktop Publishing jobs while skydiving. What a rip.
But the good news is that it:
- kept Apple's security cred high before Black Hat
- made Safari more stable for many people (patching memory leaks & buffer overruns would have helped both security and stability)
- added bcc: to Mail
- made Mail more responsive
- other subtle bug fixes that some have been noticing (louder speaker sound?) etc
and...
- didn't undo any of the work of the iPhone dev wiki team working to unlock it for international owners (a lot of US people don't realize how desperately this is needed because of Apple's pigheadedness about locking it up to one carrier and cutting their overseas fans off)
- jailbreak still works
- custom ringtones, etc all still fine
- 3rd party app development not set back at all
Not too bad for a x.0.1 release, from a "could have been worse" angle.