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ryan gdgt staff 5 months ago

iPhone OS 4.0 is coming sooner than we thought. Let the speculation begin! My most wanted features probably won't be much different from anyone else's: some form of multi-tasking, embeddable widgets / live data points that would give a little more glanceable data from the home and unlock screens, and maybe some UI updates to freshen the place up a little. Oh, and one more thing: iPhone OS really, REALLY needs to build trial periods into paid apps.

So, what are you looking for?

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marcodj 5 months ago

I'm just hoping for a better notification system

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mikestrock 5 months ago

Better notification. Better battery life. Native GMail push. Multi-tasking, IMO, is going to kill battery life. But it would be nice.

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rtayyem 5 months ago

multitasking.. and a totally new itunes that actually doesn't "EAT" my pc !!

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twdietrich 5 months ago

I hear you on an updated iTunes. I updated to 9.1 and for some reason it had to "re-optimize" all my 22,000 photos even though I only had 1 folder selected to sync to my iPod.

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dave gdgt staff 5 months ago

Better notification / alert management is high on my list as well. Push notifications are cool, but useless if you get more than a few in a short amount of time (since it seems to overwrite previous notifications).

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hramos 5 months ago

At the very least they have to update the system for the iPad. A simple popover would suffice instead of the current screen blocking notifications

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jonursenbach gdgt staff 5 months ago

The new AirMail product from Urban Airship solves that problem in a pretty sweet way in that it gives you an inbox for all of your notifications. urbanairship.com/products/airmail/

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jonursenbach gdgt staff 5 months ago

More lightning.

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adamtyree 5 months ago

Honestly, a UI update is a biggie for me. The only reason I have considered leaving iPhone is because after 3 years, it's kind of boring. The changes don't even have to be anything drastic. (Though, if they rethought and redesigned the springboard, I'm sure no one would mind.)

Of course, multi-tasking is a must.

Beyond those two, and the ones Ryan already listed, I'd love to see some kind of surprise.

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richardlai 5 months ago

All I ask for is a fixed dictionary (mine keeps changing "me" to "mr", "it's" to "its" etc.), boosted by a customizable dictionary.

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matthewcopsey 5 months ago

I just hope that if they add multi-tasking, they also add a way to disable multi-tasking. I'm satisfied with the iPod/Mail/Safari level of multi-tasking as it is currently implemented. If I have to constantly monitor running applications and quit applications that I've left open inadvertently, I'm not going to be very happy with it.

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psimac 5 months ago

I want that nifty rotation-lock feature the iPad has, so when I'm watching podcasts or surfing the Web in bed, the iPhone screen doesn't flip from vertical to horizontal.

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marcodj 5 months ago

That's a hw deal :S

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ThinkingSkeptic 5 months ago

I have an SMBsettings thingy that allows me to turn it on and off on my 3G. Almost always use it in portrait mode.

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triviallytravis 4 months ago

It can be locked in software as well. I believe the Kindle app has it.

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aforty 5 months ago

You hit it on the head as far as what I'd like to see.

Some other stuff:
Some sort of file-system (that was rumored for 3.2) for the iPad
Universal inbox (confirmed be Jobs)
Multiple Exchange accounts (for mailboxes only, I see the obvious technical limitation doing it with contacts and calendar)

Oh boy I can't wait! I love that it's only 3 days away and not weeks!

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scc4fun 5 months ago

I would love to have multiple Exchange accounts so that I could sync my Gmail and my work email.

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evie 5 months ago

I want what I'll never get: Folders for apps. I'm tired of scrolling over 11 pages (or searching) for my apps. I have 20 Spanish apps, 8 tennis apps, 12 fitness apps, 16 games, etc. I want them in folders. For some reason, Jobs believes folders are too complicated for the average user, so they'll never be on iphones or ipads.

And I want multitasking, but I assume that's coming. And I want Flash, but I know hell will freeze over first.

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ThinkingSkeptic 5 months ago

Folders would be really nice. I'm not sure why they haven't been implemented yet. Surely this is a widespread problem. Many people understand the simple folder hierarchy metaphor, maybe they aren't pretty enough.

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three60 5 months ago

1. Better notification on homescreen (ie: emails, voicemails, txt's, etc.)
2. Multitasking: Curious to see if they'll implement this, and how it's invoked
3. If possible, better battery life. Dunno if OS software can do this, but it'd be great if I could get a few more hours out of my phone
4. Better email app. 'Nuff said!

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Jonbruc 5 months ago

It writes itself. Steve: "We opened the iBookstore one week ago, and the response has been phenomenal. We have over 10,000 titles, and are adding new ones every day. Now we are adding ibooks to the iphone. (waits for applause)

But what I'm really waiting for is Netflix.

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beau 5 months ago

The notification system needs to be much better.
Limited background processes to listen to audio streams and keep a twitter client alive in the background, but full multi-tasking isn't needed.
Wireless syncing with iTunes or the cloud. (Highly doubt this will happen)
Stream music and video from iTunes library.
Widgets and lock screen widgets.
Contacts integrate FB, twitter and other social data better so you can see at a glance a person's latest status.

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Neel 4 months ago

I'm calling...
Higher resolution support. Printer support. Front cam support. Selected applications can run in the background.

But, I'm still gonna be disappointed since I need file access for the iPhone NOT to feel like a dumbphone. Seriously, I can't download files from the internet? wtf.

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bcarr 4 months ago

As long as whatever they're talking about works well with older iPhones (like my iPhone 3G), I'm fine with whatever they're about to come out with!

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robertwood 4 months ago

The only rumor I heard is that it might allow printing. I can see where that's very important for iPad users but I can also see where that would be good for iPhone users in printing email or pulling up a google doc and being able to print it.
That however isn't really important to me. Multi-tasking is, which it seems is everyones first choice.

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JordanDunn 4 months ago

What I think would be cool, is if it would almost work like the apple laptops. Where your dock on your iphone works like your laptop, so when you start an app it goes into the dock. It only allows 4-5 apps to work at a time and they are all running, it would help conserve the battery since not all apps can run at a time, but still would allow for safari to load pages while I'm checking my tweet deck and listening to pandora

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jonv 5 months ago

A small thing but how about the ability to remove the built in apps that are not used.

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UncleMuscles 5 months ago

I think the big ones are:

1) Multitasking
2) Updated UI/Springboard
3) Notifications

Considering the laundry list of updates 3.0 had I am somewhat optimistic for version 4.0

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calciphus 5 months ago

I'd like program folders, personally. I don't think having everything in a flat system is really helpful.

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tjberens 5 months ago

Multitasking would be great, but what I really want is to be able keep my iPod connected to wi-fi when I lock it without using Insomnia. I'd also like to be able to see the emails I receive in some sort of notification box and I'd definitely like to see an unread mail count somewhere on the status bar.
Oh, I also want percentage on my battery without having to jailbreak. I had it on my iPod before I jailbroke, but after I jailbroke, I had to install a package to show it again.

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hramos 5 months ago

I expect it to be released during wwdc like last year. Hopefully we I'll get a new sdk this week with the new features so that devs can get started on the new apps.

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NienorGT 5 months ago

I don't want to much... Only multitasking, Widget, Social Networking Integration (FaceBook/Twitter to contacts), Notification system...
Also: Wallpaper on homescreen, but since iPad has it, I'm sure the iPhone will get it)

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JakePT 5 months ago

Sooner than you thought? It's been March the last two times, with a release in June. This is late if anything. Clearly they were just waiting for the iPad to get about.

As for features, I just want to see better notifications, and some kind of UI update to make the thing look new.

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nitinbadjatia 5 months ago

Some basic multitasking would make both the iPhone and iPad experience so much better. As an example, I'd really like to 'push' tasks from my email into Things. That alone would be awesome.

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beau 5 months ago

Also looking for a really great task killer on the iPhone. I've been missing that functionality.

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