My iPhone Wishlist – Future Updates?
All the things I want from my iPhone and then some!
Driving home from work today I had a great idea in the car that I needed to write down so I didn’t forget. Now I love my iPhone to death, and use it all the time for taking notes. The only problem is when I am driving in my car this is not the safest or smartest thing to do.
It got me thinking about how I wish the iPhone had an audio recording feature so you could record mental notes for yourself when it is not convenient to write them down.
My mind started to wander, thinking about all the other functions that I wished the iPhone was capable of. I have had my iPhone since the week they first came out and this has given me plenty of time to come across numerous things I wish it could do. As if it doesn’t do enough already, I’m sure I am not alone when I say it needs to do more!
The first thing that is at the top of my list is an audio recording feature like I mentioned for making quick notes of things you need to remember. You could then set these audio reminders to calendar events that could be triggered as reminders or just look them up in a “notes’ type browser.
I really love the camera on my phone and I use it a lot. For the most part the pictures come out great! That is, when I have good lighting. If it is dark out, it is really hit or miss with the camera. Some pictures will come out nice, but most of the time they tend to come out grainy looking which can really ruin some shots.
I can understand why the iPhone doesn’t have a flash as this would probably chew through the battery life in no time, but I wish the camera had a higher megapixel count and some extended options for it. It is just so convenient to have the camera function that I use it all the time, and wish I had a little more control over it.
One thing I am really disappointed my iPhone doesn’t have is a video recording function. This seems like something that could have easily been incorporated since most digital cameras out there have the ability to capture motion jpeg. I am guessing this was also probably a battery life consideration but considering how great the video playback is on the phone it’s disappointing that you can’t record video with it.
Another really nice feature would have been a GPS capability. It seems silly, since most phones are required to utilize some sort of GPS technology for emergency services, that this can’t be put into practical use by users. The incorporation of Google maps and how well it works on the phone always drives me nuts when I think about how cool it would be to be able to track myself on that map as well. Between Apple and Google this seems like it should have been there from the start.
This next one is something I am sure I am not alone on, which is full fledged java and plugin support through Safari, especially for playing simple mpeg videos. Because of competition between Apple and Microsoft I can understand why the phone does not support WMV files but mpeg is pretty much standard. It is frustrating to be limited to videos in YouTube or content you have downloaded to the phone. It would make the internet experience on a phone unmatched in my opinion, if they could add this ability in the future.
Another thing that has really bugged me along these lines is that I cannot save files to my iPhone directly from a website. I’m talking about images to use as backgrounds, mp3s and videos to enjoy when I’m bored, and text files for projects I am working on. I can understand that this may be to protect the phone from potential security flaws, but having an 8GB hard drive that can’t store things at the touch of a button is like having a beach house I lost the key to. I don’t want to climb in through the window every time I want to enjoy that luxury.
The last 2 things I wish the iPhone had are an external keyboard similar to what some of the PDAs out there have, because I take lots of notes with my phone and I mean LOTS! I will use it for taking meeting notes, jotting down ideas, making lists, writing down songs to download, etc. I would really love a keyboard for those times when you are sitting down somewhere and you really want to get your ideas out in full. Especially for things like blogging!
The second thing along these lines would be a stylus. Now don’t get me wrong. The iPhone has one of the best touch screen systems I have ever used. In fact I was blown away by how good it actually is. You see it in the commercial and think there is no way it can be that good and then you use it yourself only to find out it’s better! I would just really like the ability to use a stylus for when I am messing around with various options and sliders in settings that are smaller than the standard keyboard letters. It would also be nice because then you could incorporate some type of doodle program for me too!
Ok have I asked for enough yet?
Don’t get me wrong, I love my iPhone. (Did I already mention that?) I take it everywhere and use it all the time. I have used it so much in fact that my battery is finally starting to show some slight signs of aging after about 10 months.
Requests like this show how good you have made something when people make all sorts of unreasonable demands about “lacking” features. Whenever I read a review on an item and the negative comments are “Did not come with a universal remote to start the vacuum from the other room”, I immediately buy that product because you know it must be good if that’s all there is to gripe about.
Speaking of which, where is my universal remote function Apple?
Why can’t my phone control all the things in my real life like it does in my cyber life? Oh wait that’s right! Check out the following article for information on rumors that apple is developing limited universal remote functionality for the iPhone. (For use with iTunes of course)
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/04/rumor-apple-to.html
But considering they can do this, it would be nice to control all the rest of the stuff in the house with my iPhone too.
Even if it can’t do these things I guess I can settle for what it currently offers me. It’s like having someone cook dinner for me, and then complaining that I wanted to get Chinese take out. I guess I have set pretty high standards for my iPhone but it is only because I see the potential for this device and all the things it can be used for in the future.
I hope Apple sees the same thing and continues to build on the great device they have already created.
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