iPhone Feature Requests

By Robert on May 27, 2007 1:11 PM | | Comments (0)
iPhone 2007-01

Can you tell that we are excited about the iPhone release?

Here are a few feature requests we would like to see added to the iPhone at some point:

  • The iPod application includes a handy volume control slider, but does not appear to include a method for changing the playing location of the current audio track (rewind/fast-forward/jump to point). This feature does appear in the video player.
  • GPS with integration into Google Maps
  • 3G. Not that it is available in my area, but some day it will be!
  • Games. I often play solitaire on my Windows Mobile phone whenever sitting around waiting for things like oil changes and flights.
  • Third-party software: The list of applications available for Windows Mobile and Palm is huge! I am sure many of the Mac developers out there would love the opportunity to develop/sell applications that run on the iPhone.
  • Use the built in camera to record video.
  • Flash player. Available, but not easily setup on a Windows Mobile device. Flash is working its way into all of todays popular sites (YouTube, MySpace, Google Talk (web), Yahoo! Messenger (web), etc)
  • Push email from Google. Not totally in Apple's control because Google does not currently offer IMAP. When/if Google adds this feature it would be nice to know that the phone will support it.
  • Steve pointed out that iPhone parses phone numbers in email messages, how about parsing street addresses with a magical import into Google Maps?
  • Support for multiple email accounts. This feature may already be present, I can't tell from the demos. These days people have many email accounts including work and one or more Gmail, Yahoo!, and Hotmail accounts.
  • Display Favicon.ico (the little icon/logo next to the site address in most browsers) image on the bookmarks screen and the change page screen.
  • There has been some rumors of an Apple developed spreadsheet application for Mac. It would be nice if there was a mini-spreadsheet program for viewing/editing simple spreadsheets. The same thing goes for Word documents (as you might guess Microsoft makes mini-versions of these applications available on their phone OS).

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