iPhone Features Requests - Page 4

c1ockwerk · 07-03-2007, 11:41 AM

i would like the ability to listen to wav files added. I get my home voice mail sent to my email and i cant listen to the voicemail on the phone. It would be nice if we could just open the file for playing, we dont have to be able to save it just able to hear it.

c1ockwerk · 07-03-2007, 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by uptick

7. Streaming media (a la Apple TV model). Imagine previewing movie trailers while standing outside a movie theater trying to decide what to watch?

you can already do this here http://www.apple.com/trailers/

tamakin · 07-03-2007, 10:21 PM

Widescreen keyboard for texting and email... I can't flip the phone and get a widescreen view for texts or emails... its way easier to type in widescreen mode... I want that in the update

iPhone3.0 · 07-06-2007, 03:07 PM

Originally Posted by ieeefee

Here are a few feature requests we would like to see added to the iPhone at some point:
* 3G. not that it is available in my area, but some day it will be!
* 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
* Use the built in camera to record video.
* 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.
* Flash videos supported: At present, iPhone seems only supports mp4, h.264, mp3, aac. If it supports Flash files, iPhone will be more popular. Flash is working its way into all of todays popular sites (YouTube, MySpace, Google Talk (web), Yahoo! Messenger (web), etc)
* 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 like games, video conversion, DVD to iPhone software, music data recovery, media editor, etc.
* 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).

I hope they put the GPS with Audio Directions.

ajhill · 07-08-2007, 01:31 PM

Have you ever been watching a video on your iPhone and wished you could go back just a few seconds and catch what was just said? Sure on a shorter video it's relatively easy, but on an hour episode, or a movie it's tough.

What is needed is the ability to "scrub" backwards, and forwards? by just using a flick gesture (like the one used for deleting emails) to the left. A small flick would go back 10 seconds, while a more aggressive flick might go back a minute or more. Does this make sense to anybody else?

I find it very tough to quickly backup by small increments. Makes it tough to watch movies on my iPhone, especially if there are heavy accents (no subtitles yet) and you need to backup to catch something that was said.

Here's looking forward to Apples first (and second and third) firmware updates!

TeamXceed1 · 07-08-2007, 11:17 PM

Hi,

I'm the type of person that texts a lot. I'd be nice If I could send one text to multiple people. Or it could at least have AIM & Yahoo Messenger.

pillpusher@houston.rr.com · 07-10-2007, 02:35 AM

While I realize that making an innovative product, like the IPhone, that can do things that all other cell phones can't, isn't it JUST as important to make sure it can do things that nearly all other cell phones CAN? Here are a few things I noticed that I feel wouldn't just be a nice addition or change, but where I feel Apple really dropped the ball... I know a couple of them have been mentioned before on this thread, but I wanted to put my thoughts all together... My apologies.

1) Voice dialing via Bluetooth-How did they miss this? Also, for some reason, if my headset loses it's connection, I'm having a helluva time getting it to reconnect to the IPhone.

2) Alert tones-As someone else mentioned, this is a HUGE problem. The ring tones are not very loud, to begin with. Also, you need to be able to set a different alert for different things. The text message tone is WAY too quiet! Unless it's dead quiet and the phone is right next to you, you will never know you got a message. Which brings me to #3.....

3) Reminder alerts-If you don't hear the initial, very quiet chime, you'll never know you got a message unless you check your phone every couple of minutes. Another must fix.

4) Text messaging to multiple recipients at once, or mass messaging-This is a necessity for me. I work with a team of people and we tend to coordinate out scheduling via text message. So, when I schedule something, I text it to the everyone on my team. With the IPhone, I have to send it to each of them individually. This is something most phones offer. I understand the IM style interface may pose a problem with this. But wouldn't it be a simple adjustment to program the IPhone to (for example, if messaging two people) create two threads from the SMS menu, since the phone would actually be sending out two separate messages?

5) Picture messaging-Another big ball drop. What's the point of taking a picture w/ your phone if you can't immediately send it to your friend's phone? If I wanted to just store it and email it, I'd use a real camera!

6) Safari randomly goes back to the home screen sometimes.

7) Downloadable or custom ringtones... I'm getting mixed info about this. I hear you will soon be able to create custom ringtones on ITunes... What's the latest on this?

Maybe there is a way around some of these issues that I haven't figured out yet. If so, or if you feel any of these are incorrect, please let me know... Otherwise, who knows... Maybe someone on the IPhone product team watches this website for ideas, and will see these things as opportunities to turn a good product into a great product.

jph3 · 07-11-2007, 02:23 AM

Originally Posted by ieeefee

* 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.

Not sure if someone already pointed this out - I think this feature does exist in the current iPod application - if you just lightly tap the album art - the "audio scrub" controls appear... is that what you were looking for?

Originally Posted by ieeefee

* 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.

I've configured three email accounts so far... .mac, Gmail (POP), and my business IMAP account. The Gmail account does seem to be confusing my incoming and outgoing mails... i.e. they are all in my inbox!

I'm sure I'll figure it out

Anyway - hope this helps.

I agree 100% about the ability to text more than one person at a time... and absolutley, we should be able to send pix messages to one or more person at the same time too.

I'd love Adium for my iPhone... 3rd party apps please

And custom ring tones... a must.

I'll bet we get a lot of this sorted out in the next few months.

aer-julie · 07-18-2007, 04:44 PM

Originally Posted by ieeefee

Here are a few feature requests we would like to see added to the iPhone at some point:
* 3G. not that it is available in my area, but some day it will be!
* 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
* Use the built in camera to record video.
* 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.
* Flash videos supported: At present, iPhone seems only supports mp4, h.264, mp3, aac. If it supports Flash files, iPhone will be more popular. Flash is working its way into all of todays popular sites (YouTube, MySpace, Google Talk (web), Yahoo! Messenger (web), etc)
* 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 like games, video conversion, DVD to iPhone software, music data recovery, media editor, etc.
* 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).

First off, let me tell you that I absolutely LOVE my iPhone. It is the easiest PDA type phone on the market. I am actually looking at getting on for my husband who has a hard time turning on his computer-and I know he will have no problems using the iPhone.

I do have a fer suggestions (I am sure Apple has heard them all before, but I will reiterate anyways):

1) Flash Player (yes everyone has asked for this one).

2) The ability to Copy, Cut, Paste. This would solve the other individuals issue in calendar. I often have appointments (like doctor appts) that I schedule again on another date and would like to be able to copy them and paste them on a new date. Currently I have to write on paper at doctor and then go back to my PC to copy/paste old appt in new time slot. THIS WOULD BE A GREAT IMPROVEMENT.

3) Ringtones-ability to add new ringtones to iPhone. (Keynote address showed a ringtone tab in iTunes....Why was this deleted?)

4) Games. It would be nice to have games loaded on the iPhone instead of "internet" Safari games. However http://macmost.com/iphonegames/ is a great site. Can anyone comment (probably not) on the rumor that Apple may be partnering with Nintendo to add games to the iPhone for a price?

5) Accessible Adobe Reader. One thing I miss from my old PDA phone is the ability to have ebooks on my phone. When waiting for appointments or simply "killing time" I liked always having a book with me. This would be very nice. Also accessing my son's textbooks via Adobe would be great.

6) I also agree with one of the other individuals who asked for a Contacts icon on the home page. It would be nice not to have to go through the phone icon to look up something on a contact.

Thanks

wetdev · 08-02-2007, 12:30 PM

I've been thinking about this- I love my Iphone but I think it would be perfect if it had these features: (I know some people have already posted some of these).

1. Video recroder (from the built in camera)
2. Enable disk use (i use my ipod as a portable hard drive- i can store all kinds of files on it- and this is a MUST for me.) I thought when i purchased my iphone that this would naturally be a part of it. ITs not.
3. GPS tracking (use celluar towers to identify location?)
4. Video games? Theres no button for games on the front...
5. save images/videos off the internet.