Update: changed to reflect new iPhone 3G S.
In light of Apple’s recent announcement of what will be coming this summer in the iPhone 3.0 OS, I thought I’d revisit some of my wish lists / complaints from previous posts and recap what’s “solved”, what I’m hoping to see, and what still appears to be broken / missing.
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It’s really v1.1 – It has been said that the 2.0 release of the iPhone OS was like a 1.0 release for third-party apps. Given that mentality, today’s 2.1 update was a welcome relief – it made all of my third-party apps start working again.
It also helped my phone realize that there was indeed 9 GB of media (rather than ‘none’), and the MUCH faster syncing and backing up also comes as a nice surprise. Other claims include better 3G service and less battery drain – we’ll see. I’m still tempted to pick up one of those offboard batteries, just in case.
I added Evernote as a substitute for the (yellow) ‘Notes’ app. It is a free service with a web interface and syncs with native clients for iPhone and Mac (and windows, etc.) Apparently it can OCR even handwriting inside of notes that you take photos of (eg on cocktail napkins, which are usually the only things around when the best ideas occur.)
Update: iphone OS 3.0.
A brief list of features that I’d love to see implemented at a low level by Apple and/or AT&T.
While I wish I had a way to quickly mark an email ‘Spam’ on my iPhone’s Mail client, even more useful to me would be a button that would hang up on a telephone call AND mark the number as ‘Spam’. That would help everyone by minimizing the amount of solicitation they got.
My guess is that the Apple SDK does not provide any sort of API for plug-ins into the Phone application, for obvious reasons. Something like this would have to come from on high and be coordinated with the phone company.
In the meantime, I’m going to take some advice I saw online and create a ‘spam caller’ with a custom ringtone, and every time I get a spam call I’ll add that number to the same contact on the phone. But it’s more work for me.
Some observations about the iPhone 3G, and a revision of my wishlist…
The release of the iPhone SDK has everyone excited, myself included. Here’s some of my app ideas.
So I got an iPhone. I wanted something that ‘just worked.’ I think people have been waiting for technology this easy to use for a long, long time. Here is a brief explanation of how I got to this point and my first impressions about the iPhone.
Updated: I’ve revised this post to reflect new OS and hardware features, which are noted throughout the post.
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