With the upcoming release of the Software Development Kit (SDK), it stands to reason that Apple will soon add some functionality to the much vaunted iPhone. And, if everything works out just right, my list will become totally obsolete when the SDK is released later this month.
I would like my iPhone to either have or be able to each of the following:
- Copy and Paste. If you want an easy way to grab information from the web and email it to someone, there just isn't a way to do that on the iPhone without cracking it.
- Lock Screen Status Icons. I will caveat this item by saying that when the iPhone is locked there are some status icons, but there isn't a status icon for each application that can notify you. For example, if you receive email messages, there isn't an unread message count on the lock screen. Likewise, there isn't an icon indicator for new voicemail messages.
- Typeahead Search for Dialing. It has always struck me as odd that you can draft a new email message and type to find a name in your contacts, but you cannot do the same when dialing a phone number. To dial a contact, you are limited to flicking through a long list. This is not an easy task when you have over 800 contacts.
- Customizable AutoCorrect Dictionary. I would love to have the ability to edit the list of AutoCorrect words that my iPhone suggests to me.
- Suppress the display of remote images. With standard email clients, you can control whether images which reside on remote servers are displayed. Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Mail all allow you to block external images. Even Apple's Mail.app allows you to enable a similar setting.
- Support Alternate Keyboard Layouts. I will start out by saying that the iPhone does support keyboard layouts for other languages, like Azerty for French, or Qwertz for German. However, I would love to be able to substitute the Dvorak keyboard layout for Qwerty, which is default on the US iPhone.
- Better Support for Smart Playlists. Because my iPhone only has 8GB of space, I use Smart Playlists extensively to automatically manage the content (mainly podcasts) on my iPhone. Each of my Smart Playlists is set for "live updating" has the line "Playcount is 0" in it to ensure that I only have not-yet-listened-to podcasts cued up. Many times, however, the playlists don't update until a subsequent sync.
- Better Support for iMap Email Syncing. My iPhone handles pop mail OK, but it fails to update my iMap accounts even though my option is set to update every 15 minutes. In fact, unless I specifically click the mail icon, it doesn't update at all.
- Lock icon. An icon that, when clicked, locks and password protects the iPhone immediately.
- Bluetooth Internet Connection Sharing. The iPhone runs OS X, right? So, an available option is OS X is the ability to share an internet connection to another device. I would love for this option to be made available on the iPhone. I mean, it's OS X, right?
I'm curious to hear your thoughts on all this.
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