@pulazzo: When someone texts you their address, and you want to get directions there, you'll eat your words.

MikeSWelch

@Enrique:

Duh. Thanks. :)

Jolyrogr

oh, and thanks for NOT putting MMS on the list-I'd love nothing more than seeing the whole SMS/MMS money grabbing scam put to death :p

dogcow

UNIVERSAL portrait/landscape!! For people like me that text quite often, or write long emails, that wide "safari portrait" keyboard would help un-cramp my hands!

-Steve

oospookyoo

I agree - all the above-mentioned bug fixes are critical. The crashing is getting a little annoying (though I've had crashing problems on all my smart phones that weren't Palm OS, so I'm used to it). On the battery life issue, I don't know how that might be fixed, but it would be great if there were a double-click option for a pop-up menu accessing just the WiFi and 3G on/off buttons. MMS and video would sure be nice in the new feature category, and I'll add to the wish list the ability to share Map pins.

I can't say that I'm unhappy at all with my iPhone. In fact it's only because I use it so much and it does so much that I have all these little problems with it. Looking forward to 2.1 for sure, though I expect it will be less than I hope.

weatherman

Oh, and syncing bookmarks to Safari is done stupidly. How come all my bookmarks on my iphone are placed into the 'Bookmarks Menu' folder? Stupid stupid stupid. It's an extra click for no reason.

Enrique

@Superevil: www.gizmodo.com/tag/not:iphone or whatever you don't wanna see after the not tag.

matt buchanan

what about being able to create/use text templates?

the1sen

If they could add these as well then this would be perfect-

1-MMS

2-Video Recording

3-A2DP Stereo Bluetooth (if possible with the current hardware)

4-Syncing of Outlook's tasks to ur iphone

5-syncing notes

6-Some camera stuff like filters and things like that, and maybe some zooming in

7-Alright, here's a brilliant idea- When you put the phone in silent mode (I love that little silent switch, much better than my previous phone), it should silence the whole entire phone's activities, not just the ringer, this way you can still use apps like games and programs and even youtube without disturbing others or you can use these features in the middle of class without having to lower the volume every time.

8-Some form of voice dialing without running any 3rd party apps

9-Wireless sync after 1 minute of inactivity when docked. The Zune does the same thing, and also has a feature in the settings to wifi sync on demand, but it shouldn't automatically sync when not docked to save battery, just like the zune did.

10.The ability to put the screen off during a speakerphone call, because sometimes you aren't using the phone for anything other than talking and you're using speaker, but you don't want to hit anything on the phone, so it owuld be best to have an option to put it into sleep without hanging up the phone on speaker.

Well yea, if apple took this list I just made and the list in the story and maybe some other stuff, they should release it as a really big free update for iphone users called iphone update 2.5 (hence the HUGE amount of functionality gained in one update, but it would take a while and probably not be free, because of course it IS apple!)

Sam_Zebian

Great list. But seriously, I'd be ecstatic with just #1 at this point. Mobile Safari is better under 2.0 (for me) but it still crashes out too often. It is actually more like Safari on Windows than Safari on Leopard in that regard.

dogcow

Adam, people are buying the iPhone 2.0 as it currently is. Moreover, Pogueman and Goatberg have overlooked every flaw. Finally, Apple gets no money from the new AT&T contracts.

Remind me again why Apple should get an update out ASAP.

OMG! Ponies!

Personally, I just want the 3G toggle switch to be under the Wi-Fi one on the first page of settings. That would make me happy enough I wouldn't need smart switching.

matt buchanan

"I'll see it done.
What 2.0 hath lost, noble 2.1 hath won."

Just tried to put in some Shakespeare here xD.

CrunchFlake

I also wish the update would bring more hot chicks and less weird dudes to Twinkle ...

GeekyNerdGuy

these are all a lot of my own frustrations.

Since I bought a refurb first gen, I've always thought it was my phone that was buggy. So in a strange way, I'm glad to hear these issues are widespread.

To that end, anyone else get kicked out of Safari randomly? That's tremendously annoying.

AaronZ

@krispykrink: I had a Windows Mobile phone once, and that had background applications running all the time and there was no way to stop them unless you went into the Task Manager and quit them. It was a both a memory and battery hog.
There has to be a way to let the user select which apps they want to run and keep running, and which ones can be closed when you leave the app.

silomunke

I think it has to uninstall and reinstall the apps during the updates -- hence the reason they get plopped back at the end. I doubt that's going to get fixed.

What I hate the most is when a page in Safari just overloads/crashes it and it just shuts it off. THAT is annoying.

GeekyNerdGuy

Wow, that is everything I absolutely need. Honestly, if they released an update with all that fixed I might actually get the new iPhone. For now, my trusty iPhone 1.0 does the trick with just as many bugs and whistles as the new one without the extra fees.

abyssknight

First fix the new problems (specifically keyboard lag). More options in general would be nice - 3g options, etc

James

@Jolyrogr: You have to go to settings and enable Caps Lock.

How about giving us the option to change the alert sound on my calendar? Every other phone in the world has this...

Of course MMS, but I think Apple is too (stupid and) stubborn to understand why we want this.

How about making all links clickable?! Too often I get a link in my calendar, and it isn't clickable. I also have yet to receive a 'photo message' on my iPhone (I only got it a week ago) but apparently you have to write down the link that AT&T sends you, then type it into Safari... again, why can't that be clickable?

Enrique

All great suggestions. Definitely hating the page organization thing. I tried to keep games on one page and news on another, etc and that lasted through one app update when I realized it was never going to work.

Am I the only person who's had their phone for a year and hasn't even once wanted to copy and paste something? I hear plenty of complaining about it, but I just don't see myself using it. I keep trying to imagine situations (I want to copy an email and paste into an sms to someone!) but I've never hit upon one I actually care about.

pulazzo

They really need to allow background applications to run. Maybe the hardware is too weak and would shit the bed if they allowed it, I dunno.

Reason being, To Do apps. WTF is the point of a To Do list if it can't remind or sound an alarm to tell you that you have something TO DO?

krispykrink

A very minor thing, but I would like to see the "email my position" ability (that we find in a couple of apps), integrated directly into the Maps program.

MichaelS

'10. Copy & Paste
Duh.'

Love it :)

big_marky_t

Here here to the list. I couldn't agree more.

jaredgibbs

Too bad Apple doesn't care about what users want and absolutely none of those features will likely make it into the next update... or the one after that... or likely the one after that either.

Let's face it... Apple gets by on releasing as little as possible in as long as possible. This is how they keep getting users to pony up the money for a "new" iPod/iPhone that has a handful of "new" features that should have been in the last one to begin with. They make some great products... But they clearly do on purpose to control what they give us to keep us all coming back on a consistent basis.

.Trenchant.

@Jolyrogr: AMEN. Shift lock was great! WTF? Why take it away?

pilotgeg

Give me 1 & 5 and I will be very happy.
linking 3g to an app makes enormous sense

wanago

@silomunke:

"Digital zooming should be outlawed. "

EXACTLY. "Digital zoom" is fancy talk for "realtime cropping" which is fancy talk for "low resolution mode".

nutbastard

I actually DO NOT WANT copy and paste. I want it to figure out when there's an address and allow me to click it for opening in google maps. I also want the ability to select a contact and one click text it to someone else.

MikeSWelch

It would be nice to be able to listen to voicemail over bluetooth again like we could on the 1G iPhone.

pilotgeg

@Superevil: www.microsoft.com

pdditty

@jwardell: Amen!

Jon!

Your forgot the most important needed improvement: Only allow those who have paid for and used an app to leave reviews in the App Store.

Or at least, allow us to physically harm those reviewers who simply say "I didn't buy this, but it sounds like it is too expensive." Sounds like a good add-on feature to the Remote app.

jwardell

@nutbastard: haha I was about to post a link to microsoft.com, but I forgot that there are a few pics of the iPhone and Powerbook on their site too :P

Jon!

That keyboard lag is the evil

awdark

@Loremaster101: Digital zooming should be outlawed. You can 'zoom' the photo when you get home and get better results.

silomunke

@Superevil: Out of the previous 54 articles, only 3 have had iPhone in the title.

Sigh...

Jon!

@Superevil:

[www.engadget.com]

just do that.

nutbastard

Moving the icons from screen to screen is easy.

silomunke

The MMS is so obvious.
Even if they charge 30 cents a message like the verizon fuckfaces, its still MMS.
I dont have any of the iPhones existing features on my shitty W385 besides the whole phone part and I still can MMS. (It was 30 bucks too)
Also, on a side note, stop charging so fucking much for text messages. I send/receive a total of 50 and get charged 10 bucks (20 cents a message), but the 10 dollar plan gives you 250 (4 cents/message). Cant I spend 2 bucks and get 50 messages? It is sofa king overpriced

mferrari

"8. Leave App Icons in Place After an Update"

This is the one that really drives me batshit insane. Seriously, if I wanted Bubble Wrap on the front page, I would have put it on the m*****f*****' front page.

92BuickLeSabre

I'll say for the 1000th time! Please let us view call details! We cannot see how long a call was!!!!!

th3gh05t

you forgot MMS and letting apps run in background :x

beeg

@stryder100: Flash is up to both Adobe AND Apple, they need to hurry up on it :P. The new Flash Player is coming out soon, maybe they will announce it then o.o

Jon!

So whats the link so I can view giz without all this iphone shit again?

Superevil

Don't forget a landscape option for email and SMS. That landscape keyboard in Safari is so much easier to use, and it's more comfortable to hold the phone that way while typing.

seandavid010

Uh, yes to all. Plus, has anyone else noticed that they no longer have a shift-lock when typing? Mine has disappeared.

Jolyrogr

I'll say it for the 259th time...Allow us the edit the meta data on songs! (add lyrics, album art, edit tags..etc.)

Miranda Kali

There's only 2 thing's i could care less and that's Copy & paste and Video recording, But dude the rest of the stuff needs serious attention from them, Backing up use to take seconds and now it takes several minutes

snitch29

GAH!!!!!

How about
1) MMS
2) Video Capture
3) Stereo Ipod out Bluetooth
4) SYNC of the BLOODY NOTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF!
5) MUSIC out BLUETOOTH!
6) Digital Zoom on the Camera

ok, i'm a bit tired, someone else finish this...

Loremaster101

Sync Notes (in my case with Outlook notes, but I understand Notes don't sync anywhere).

Err... Flash?

stryder100

Moving icons from page to page could very easily be accomplished by allowing you to drag them down to the little dots at the bottom.

The group of dots would grow in size when you got near them making it easier to pick one. Then you would merely hold the icon over one of the dots for a second or two and the phone would switch you to that page so you could then drag the icon to where you want it on that page.

Similarly, you could drag an icon and hold it between two dots and you'd get a new page inserted right where you want it. Currently, if you want a new page between two existing ones, you have to drag all the icons after that point over a page which is a PAIN IN THE ASS. ;-)

Sean Robertson

Adam took the words right out of my, and other iPhone/Pod user's mouths. Read this Steve!!!!

Jon!

I agree! Also, throw in the ability to permanently save a text, forward a text and allow pic texts. PLEASE!!

Screen Name

Wow my jailbroken touch sounds like its more stable then 2.0. Although when it crashes anymore its kind of an ordeal to get it back up.

Some of the things on the list are in conflict with each other and probably part of the reason that you don't see the features more often. You want more effective battery usage but wi-fi syncing as soon as you walk in the door would kill it.

tande04

Has anyone experienced this since 2.0, where after watching a video, the music resets (before 2.0 one could resume audio play from where the song left off)? Now it'll just got back to the first song from the entire collection.

dc82

Turn by turn GPS and picture messaging would be nice.

shalegac

Keyboard lag is so annoying. I get kicked out of Safari for typing too fast.

Dj75728

@bgbs: No I don't think so, just hide in your closet another year, might be out by then.

Jon!

Is iphone 3G out already?

bgbs

I second the MMS, especially since you are asking for video capture.

brianworkman

MMS & A2DP

UofITom

What about correcting the camera lag?

ianmac47

phew ..haven't upgraded to 2.0 and after this post.. Don't want to ..

Though push email is a something i desperately want ..

kpuri

Hear, hear! You hit every point I'm looking for. Very well said. ^_^

SonOfMagicFact

what's with the MMS. Welcome back to 2001.

vgart

In addition to everything mentioned, I wouldn't mind seeing a "find" or "search" feature in safari for searching web pages.

Also, like an above poster mentioned - clickable addresses that link to maps. Even if copy paste is implemented, this would still be awesome if possible.

pj_rage

"It Just Works"
baaaahahahahahahahahahaaa

Suck on it, oh shit the iphone has problems like every other anything in the history of everything, ZOMG apple's products aren't perfect?!?!?!
(disclaimer: the above statement is only meant for douchy apple fanboi's that think Apple is the be all end all, not reasonable apple 'enthusiasts')

Either way, being a microsoft guy myself (please don't hate), the iPhone is probably the only Apple product I would purchase to date. hopefully i didn't start a ms vs apple flamewar...

MilktruckHeist

@dogcow:definitely. I know a scam when I see one - MMS and SMS, you are officially on notice.

lpranal

I love my phone however since they are pushing this as an "Enterprise Device" how about.

1. Sync notes and ToDo with Exchange
2. A home page with upcoming appts todo etc
3. Shutdown push when you are in range of your office wi-fi to conserve power making the assumption you are working email on your PC

MorganRW

@Enrique: Oh THANK YOU! That will make my life much easier! Great tip.

pilotgeg

@MikeSWelch: Has your brain deteriorated that much?

GeekyNerdGuy

Fix keyboard lag, no Safari crashing, landscape typing for emails and text messaging... happy until 3.0.

juicebytim

@nutbastard: Yes it is actually. I find this to be a major flaw. Most people just say "oh you can just memorize it." That is not the kind of inconvenience I expect from the iPhone.

MikeSWelch

@oospookyoo:

Big time, that seems like it is broken right now. (I am turning it to the side but the keyboard isn't moving!)

Especially now that we have exchange on here and people are going to be doing a lot more email on them.

Ooh, make the freaking activesync more verbose during setup, like, with actual error messages!

jiffy

@OMG! Ponies!: I just want a phone flashy enough to get me laid and capable of showing me porn when it inevitably fails ...

GeekyNerdGuy

I second these points...

I'd also appreciate MMS

and PLEASE include possibility to switch
that predictive dictionary off, which is even
more annoying than the occasional keyboard lags

don_moron

@pulazzo: The iPhone needs an "Add To Contacts" function on par with the BlackBerry. When I get an email on a BlackBerry, it can strip out all of the info and makes a new contact - not just the email address.

If you want to compete with the BlackBerry, you need to do what a BlackBerry can do. Which is why T-Mobile's flash ad on the home screen is effective. "I need a phone that fulfills my business needs and does not break easily".

OMG! Ponies!

@MikeSWelch:
... ya, it's a good chance to practice screen keyboard tapping skills and patience... especially on long urls.

ANoel

@MikeSWelch:

while your way is better, remembering a couple of digits and a street name for 20 seconds while you type it in isn't really that painful.

nutbastard

@Jolyrogr: No prob - took me a while too. Weird that the default is for that to be off

Enrique

@silomunke: Yes, WinMo is a mess in that regard. As for letting a user choose what can run in the background, the Developer can put that option in the Settings. In fact, that should be a mandatory thing. It can be done, but Apple seems to be overlooking way too many things. Probably due to laziness, ineptitude, lackluster hardware specs... take your pick.

krispykrink

Honestly, just fixing all of the current bugs would be fine for me. I'm a little disappointed with how often my 3G crashes...though I assume it's due to the Apps, and not the phone itself.

Landscape Keyboard is a HUGE one for me. I can do w/out MMS and video recording if I could just get that in there.

Chromeo

@MikeSWelch: Great Bush-flaming Moses......the end draws nigh.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

@UofITom: I with you on that. Otherwise, that's a pretty good list of hoped-for updates.

drwedge

@Waka in Japan:
to paraphrase Alan Kay-"the iPhone is the first phone worth criticizing." :p

dogcow

what about a today screen so the lock screen isn't completely useless.

xipher

I don't know how you guys like this thing so much, with so many problems still to be fixed.

Waka in Japan

That list is really good and sums up my biggest complaints well. I feel like I'm back to using Windows Mobile!!!

Two other things I'd really like to see implemented/fixed:

1 Number of key presses it takes to switch between mailboxes - make tabs at the top to filter different mailboxes on/off or do *something*. This is one of the main reasons my boss returned his iPhone (as minor of a thing as that is, for a constant e-mail use it is a large pain)

2 Ability to edit a contact anytime you're viewing it - Often times I'll be looking at a contact that I navigated to from somewhere other than the contact list and I want to change something... can I do that? Nope. You need to close that app, open the contact list, find the contact (after various lags), then edit. Let me edit it anytime I'm looking at it.

Keebler

I add my vote to most everything above and add the following which may make too much sense for Apple, but when I get a text message containing a phone number, let me click and hold down on the link for options like "Add to existing contact, Add as New Contact, Call" rather than having to call it, hang up, then add as a contact.

C'mon Apple. You are SUPPOSED to be known for your intuitive interfaces... prove it on the iPhone please!

craigkendall

@pj_rage: I found an iphone bookmarklet the other day that allows you to use 'find' in Safari... let me see if I can find it.

ahhh, there it is:
[www.lifeclever.com]

Enrique

that lag while texting is killing me.

MMS would be pretty sweet..

theconqueror

I would also like to see the "search nearby" feature added to the maps app. Google maps online has this feature, why not the jebus phone?

rv7

@pj_rage: Seriously. I have no idea why they don't put a search in the iPod. It's so annoying when I want one certain song.

GeekyNerdGuy

give the home screen icons the ability to switch to landscape mode. no one wants to constantly switch their phone from portrait to landscape every two minutes when doing something. just let me start from the beginning and i'll be alright (along with all the other things being added as well)

akira_santiago

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nothing more need be said.

Boots_Mcoy

They (Apple) may be waiting to incorporate a major fix for a lot of poor 3G users before they release this update - that being of a vast amount of users complaining about poor reception and dropped calls while on 3G, thus making users simply turn it off. Thank goodness I never upgraded from my original iPhone, because the sheer volume of users affected speaks to quite a major issue and annoyance:

[tinyurl.com]

voicegy

Oh yeah, improved ipod features as well would be nice. Meta tag editing as mentioned above, along with a search like the contacts app and the ability to make smart playlists on-the-go. Another little thing is the ability to view a visualization or something instead of album art / track list. Especially for tracks that don't have art. 90% of the real estate is taken up by nothing (when in the app).

pj_rage

@vgart: Not all women have email on their phones yet, so they have to wait to get home to their computer to see pictures I've sent them of my junk.

GeekyNerdGuy

The MMS thing could fairly easily 'fixed' by AT&T until Apple implements the functionality for the iPhone. Send pictures as a picture message is not hard to do from the iPhone. Every carrier (I'm pretty sure) allows you to email to an address and have it pop up as a picture or text message on their phone. T-Mobile, for example is @tmomail.net (not sure what it is for other carriers, but it can be found with a little research). I send my friends picture messages like this from my phone all the time via the existing email capabilities. Maybe it could be helped by AT&T having some kind of lookup somewhere that if you email to a phone number@attmms.com or something and it sends it to the other carriers.

Receiving messages is another story. AT&T already sends you a text message saying that someone sent you a MMS and you can go see it at viewmymessage.com and entering the id and password. First off, this site RARELY works. I think I've had it work like once. AT&T needs to fix that first. Then change the message so that is says 'www.viewmymessage.com' instead of just 'viewmymessage.com' so the iPhone will see it as a URL and change it to a link automatically (already does that for other text messages). They could even go a step further by making it so that the link itself has the id and password is embedded in the link so it just takes one tap to go to the site with the picture.

If they did that, AT&T could by-pass Apple's delay in implementing MMS and please their customers until then. You could send MMS via the iPhone using the existing email functionality, and receiving them wouldn't be half as painful to try and see them, and all of that without having to rely on Apple adding the functionality. (Please let someone with some pull at AT&T read this)

aquajaws

@GeekyNerdGuy:
"@MikeSWelch: Has your brain deteriorated that much?"

Maybe Mike beat you to it... too often? (check his brain and his palms)
@GeekyNerdGuy: "I just want a phone flashy enough to get me laid and capable of showing me porn when it inevitably fails ..."

ANoel

@bgbs: seriously? the "is the iphone out yet" line is so tired.

Personally, I'd like to see push email work more consistently.

generalassembly

Why does everyone want MMS? So ATT can charge you even more money? You can "MMS" using email and it's free in your unlimited data plan. MMS is so early millennium. Time to move on.

Shabbis

How about contact groups? Sometimes I'd like to send a txt to all of my close friends, party friends, or family to announce something or do invites. It sucks having to add them each time. If this exists, just slap me and tell me how to do it.

gizak

Good starter list, Giz. iPhone 3G looks like it was rushed to release and is not as stable of an OS as the initial release. It still blows me away that some of the simple things that should be mandatory in a mobile phone of this caliber are missing. MMS? Video recording? Notes sync? C'mon, those are 3 things that should have been included in the 2.0 OS. Basic required features that are still lacking.

I realize the focus was all on the AppStore and developers in this release, but even that is severely lacking. All of these limitations and requirements are insane. Also, I applied for the developer program the day it was announced and I still haven't been accepted. Nice. Glad my killer iPhone app will never make it to the awesome new AppStore and make Apple gajillions of dollars. WTF?

I'm not sure if it's 3G mode or bluetooth, but battery life on iPhone 3G is absolutely dreadful. I used to be able to go 2 days at least without having to re-charge the phone and now I'm lucky it gets to the end of the day without going into the red.

Copy and Paste? Don't get me started... only one of the top 5 requests of iPhone since DAY 1 and still nothing. WTF?

AppStore: new apps are really slowing down, and how many to-do, flashlight, 8-ball and bubble apps can the world possibly need? Is anyone else really tired of the lameness of the apps now? The initial joy of the apps is now gone... everyone has Monkeyball and the other cool "look at what my iPhone can now do" apps. What's left is a lot of crap. The "newest apps" list on the iPhone and iTunes Store rarely updates, and when I do see updates to certain apps in iTunes, I often don't see them update on the iPhone. The new apps list is always the same apps it seems -- a list of apps that Apple evidently wants people to see, not the apps that are really new. Where are the killer apps like integrated voice dialing? Skype? Slingplayer? These are apps that should have been release from Day 1.

GPS feature: really really cool stuff. Balls-on accuracy, but where's an app to take advantage of it? There's no turn-by-turn Garmin/Tom-Tom-like navigation. Location based apps in the AppStore are very lame... with the exception of one (Yelp) but it's lame because you can't contribute via iPhone, only desktop.

Not sure what's going on here, Apple... but I'd give iPhone v1 10 stars and iPhone 3G 5 stars.

If there's one -- just one -- thing that better be added immediately, it's MMS. The lack of this feature in iPhone is just inexcusable. The "workaround" of giving me a txt that tells me to go to a website and enter some huge number is simply a joke. Not only that, but every time I get one I have to tell the sender that I can't view MMS on my iPhone. They always laugh, followed by how pathetic my new expensive phone is that it can't do the simple features of a $20 flip phone (like video recording).

'Nuff said. Make it better, Apple... PLEASE.

MrYuk

Besides the obvious bug fixes needed (lag everywhere!).. Add:

1. Edit a contact anytime you are viewing a contact. Sometimes the edit is there, and other times it isn't. Annoying!
2. Come up with a way for apps (and e-mail, sms, ...) to queue up online tasks while offline. So I can send a txt while on the subway, and when I pop up from underground and it finds a signal, that message is sent. Blackberries do this very well, Apple, not so much.
3. If I'm trying to make a call, and there is no signal (or wasn't the last time it checked) check for a signal immediately. Again when coming out of the subway, I go to make a call, and the phone just fails. I end up doing an airplane mode switch x2 to force a search immediately.
4. Have apps separate out their stored data.. Application Code, Data, Cache.. Data is synced, Code is only updated if there's a new version, Cache is for things like map data.. Cache can be deleted if the app isn't running and space is needed.. but otherwise should be reasonably kept (but NOT synced!)

drierp

Having 3G enabled only for specific applications would indeed solve one problem but also cause another: enabling/disabling 3G requires restarting the GSM radio chip and re-aquiring network connection which would cause significant delay each time one would start an 3G-enabled app. Really bad if you would like to check something quickly using an app that you normally use for large data transfers.

atheos

Open Bluetooth stack to developers!!!

Joseph

SYNC NOTES
MMS
Video Capture
Will never happen, but, be able to listen to Pandora and check email, etc..

chanmoss

All 10 plus:

1) View info on a video that's currently playing
2) Camera shutter button (perhaps one of the volume rockers)
3) Move 3G on/off toggle to front of settings menu
4) Ability to delete songs in ipod app
5) Multiple video format support (avi, mkv...)
6) Make email fetching less power hungry (great feature, too bad I have to leave it disabled)
7) Some camera settings would be nice (white balance, mode, 3&10 second timers)
8) File storage
9) Link ipod app to Shazam and allow for tag and art editing
10) Password lock sensitive files, pics...

misterwho

I've inputted by two cents and feedback here.

Let's face it; Apple is all about money. I don't see them adding all of these feature or fixing all of these problems. They need to get their act together.

I'm getting a Bold when it comes out. I can't deal with this Apple bullshit any longer.

th3gh05t

@curiouscomputer: Come on man -- do a little research before making claims like "I want to drag a DVD straight into my iPhone and have it work. FAIL."

Even if you think Apple products should "just work" this is a ridiculous request.

generalassembly

@suburbancowboy: it's the same.

MrYuk

@akira_santiago: "give the home screen icons the ability to switch to landscape mode. no one wants to constantly switch their phone from portrait to landscape every two minutes when doing something. just let me start from the beginning and i'll be alright (along with all the other things being added as well)"

Uh......What??

generalassembly

Turn by turn GPS and picture messaging

darrinpruitt

Is anyone else going nuts with the huge lag in contacts? It seems to always go to one specific group, instead of the last one

larrybags

Is loading photos onto your phone better then it used to be.
I have an ipod touch, and it is quite annoying to have to sync entire folders. If I want to just add one photo from my other pc to the ipod, I lose all of my other photos because it can only sync entire folders, so if that photo doesn't live on the 2nd pc, it is gone.

suburbancowboy

@Shabbis: we get unlimited TXT and MMS through our AT&T plan, so it's not a money issue. It's a technology issue. Everyone who does NOT have an iPhone can send MMS, including my daughter's piece-of-shit free flip phone. If there's something important that she wants to send me, there's no way I can view it. The rest of the world can play MMS, but no--not the most technologically advanced iPhone.

NO MMS = EPIC FAILURE

MrYuk

I just got my 3g and I thought all this was just normal for the iphone. ;)

bucho54

Yes, landscape keyboard for all apps/programs. this is a no-brainer!

I have to say, i have had an iphone 3g (my first apple device ever!) for less than a week, and for all the talk of apple devices "just working" right the first time, i would have to say IMHO, the reputation is NOT justifiably deserved.

also, i own many DVD's, why can't i drag them to itunes and then DL to my iphone simply? i can do it easy with CDs i own. EPIC FAIL. (i know you can use 3rd party programs to get this done, but i thought the point of apple products "just simply working right the first time" would mean i don't have to.)

/end rant

curiouscomputer

@Shabbis: I agree Shabbis. But there are essentials that the iPhone is really missing.

Try and see how long your last call was. Go for it..I dare ya..

th3gh05t

@Foosfan:

"10)Who really wants an 8 gig souped up Ipod that's a crappy phone anyway?"

I know, right? Who wants a phone that has scored high ratings on the net, set the bar for touchscreen phones, and has sold out worldwide?

Jon!

I'm a big Apple fan. With all these issues, this product just does NOT sound like a product from Apple. Why is Gizmodo raving about the iPhone when it has fundamental issues like typing lag and crashes? I almost went out and bought the new iPhone, I'm glad I read this article first!

byslexic

10 reasons I only read Gizmodo weekly:

10)Who really wants an 8 gig souped up Ipod that's a crappy phone anyway?
9)I need the super duper double belt buckle accessory that hold my Iphone and IPod because I still want my 80 gig of music with me all the time. Because Gizmodo said the IPhone was greatest thing on the planet.
8)Remember all that Newton support when they shut it down?
7)Apple will be out of the phone business in 5 years.
6)Apple is still a little tiny teeny weeny computer company
5)Tired of ready same old crap about Apple.
4)People I know can't get rid of the IPhone quick enough.
3)Samsung looks at Apple stuff and builds it right.
2)Apple does not always make the best stuff.
1)Head so far up Apples ass they can't even talk about the competing stuff.

Foosfan

It would be nice, when I have a Calander Event, with a "Location", if I could then just click on the location, and Maps would show me where it is...

Now I have to memorize it, open maps, forget part, go back, go to maps again...hmmmm...

lyndwode

also, if apple is just moeny driven, which is mostly true, i would definately pay a non-ridiculous price for a software update. i'm sure with the millions of iphone users, a small sum would be enough to pay the salary of the programmers who are working to fix this stuff.

curiouscomputer

@StevieQ: yes, Flash support. Also missing and very needed.

MrYuk

@generalassembly: i said drag my DVD's into ITUNES, not my iphone....

curiouscomputer

Re: copy and paste, I'd love to see it implemented as one the Newton: highlight, drag to edge of screen, it iconizes and sits there. you change apps and drag it "out" to paste.

I'd personally love the see Flash support. In this day and age, it's necessary. If I can view YouTube videos, how about players from other sources? Annoying.

Also, as a Flash/Flex developer, I'd like to be able to have my web apps work.

StevieQ

My list of updates/add-ons would include this:

1. COPY & PASTE
-No explanation really needed, buuuut... My god, even the Sidekick can do this. Yet an iPhone, in it's 2nd Gen... Still can't? Epic Fail.

2. LANDSCAPE KEYBOARD ON ALL APPS
-Why is landscape keyboard only available for use in Safari? Can someone, anyone, tell me why it's not available in SMS and E-Mail??? It's there to make typing easier... Yet it's not implememented into the biggest typing apps on the frickin' phone. Epic Fail.

3. MMS
-Almost every cellphone in the world can do this... Even cheapo-freebie phones given to you when you sign up for a contract... Yet again, the iPhone can't send or view them normally. Epic Fail.

4. VIDEO RECORDING/CAMERA ZOOM/FLASH
-Still can't record video when almost all newer high-end phones can. Still can't zoom... And Apple still hasn't added Flash. Gotta love those dark pictures... Epic Fail.

These are my biggest problems with the iPhone that I want fixed ASAP. They're already working on the background notification... so I'll leave them alone on that.

@generalassembly: It's people like you that copy ideas instead of innovate and invent. What's ridiculous about the request? If you can put a cd into iTunes and rip tracks right into your library... why is it such a stretch to be able to do the same with a DVD? It's the same concept and Apple could make it happen if they really wanted to. There are already 3rd party programs out there yes... But as the other commenter stated... If its Apple and "it just works" it should be incorporated directly into iTunes. It's a great idea, simple as that.

SkoGoody

You should be able to go up and down and to the left of the original home screen not just the right

4q2000

**kinda** copy and paste...

iCopy - Copy and Paste for your iPhone

JackTheTripper

@misterwho: 1) View info on a video that's currently playing (Eh. Fine.)
2) Camera shutter button, perhaps one of the volume rockers (YES. Full agreement here)
3) Move 3G on/off toggle to front of settings menu (YES)
4) Ability to delete songs in ipod app (Would be nice.)
5) Multiple video format support...avi, mkv... (WON'T Happen - at least from Apple)
6) Make email fetching less power hungry great feature, too bad I have to leave it disabled (Probably no way to avoid this)
7) Some camera settings would be nice -white balance, mode, 3&10 second timers (what are you going to do with a timer? buy a iPhone tripod for photo taking? Lean it against something?)
8) File storage (there's a cool app coming out to fix this)
9) Link ipod app to Shazam and allow for tag and art editing (sure, whatever, won't come from Apple)
10) Password lock sensitive files, pics...(won't happen)

generalassembly

@Foosfan: does it make you feel better than you condemned Apple in a comment post? Oh no, he mentioned the Newton, let's all jump ship. Please.

generalassembly

@byslexic: The overwhelming majority of users love their iPhone. Get one and you'll see what all the buzz is about.

generalassembly

@curiouscomputer:
Because it is legal (for now) to rip CDs.
It is probably legal to rip DVDs in general.
It is NOT legal to circumvent DRM on CDs or DVDs, which you would need to do if you wanted to rip them to a different format. Most CDs don't have any. Most DVDs do.

And, yes, its stupid, and you can buy/download programs that can do this. No, no one really gets the legality about it. I don't think Handbrake or MacTheRipper have been sued over it. Yes, its a sham. Personal use, etc.. Down with DRM, yadda yadda.

Just saying you are delusional if you think APPLE is going to implement this, and open themselves up to the murky legal ramifications. They allow CDs because there isn't the DRM issue around them.

dogcow

You can copy and paste on iPhone in Safari...

[www.gizmodo.com]

JackTheTripper

@JackTheTripper: I thought MicroSoft made "iCopy".

ZING!

OMG! Ponies!

@contempt: that's what I did (same as you) but I still experience frequent crashes with Apple's own apps, as well as the AppStore-downloaded apps.

MrYuk

@curiouscomputer: Fine, but it still doesn't change the fact that video encoding is a time consuming processes, and Apple won't implement that -- they sell movies and TV shows through iTunes.

generalassembly

Oh, and you lose the icon order.

contempt

Agreed with all points. But point #1 (crashing iphone) has been solved. If you're like me, you upgraded from the previous iPhone and restored from backup. I think there's some weird legacy data that causes the crashes. I got sick of them, so I rezapped my iPhone and did not restore from backup but started from scratch. You only lose old SMS message, web faves and bluetooth pairing. Since address book, email, calendar and other syncing are really on your computer preserved. Since this, absolutely ZERO crashes. Not even 3rd party apps crash! I'm amazed and highly recommend it. It's a pain, but it's worth it.

contempt

Welp, I have one more year on my contract.... Might be going back to a Blackberry by then...

Loremaster101

#1 and #10 are the MOST important

igneous

@Sam_Zebian: I also would like to see the silent button silence EVERYTHING. It should just disable the external speaker completely, and turn on vibrate for emails, calendar items, and phone calls. I often keep my phone on silent during the day, in my pocket, to avoid disturbing my coworkers, and if I want to bust out five minutes of Bejeweled while I wait for others to arrive for a meeting, I don't really want everyone to hear what's going on.

afw

This is a concise list. It's the best punch list that I have seen.

My other two are Bluetooth headphone support and Bluetooth keyboard support.

DeadWriter

safari froze as I was typing this. God dammit. I'm glad to see everyone is having the same issues, I thought my phone was a dud or something. Am I the only one who doesn't care about stereo Bluetooth? I don't think I would ever use it unless I could stream music to my car's head unit, which I can't. Bluetooth is too Crunchy and the head phones suck, haven't tried one worth the price.

I would like to see way to access equalizer presets in the iPod menu so I don't have to hit so many buttons to change them. How cool would a touch screen equalizer be? Why not, right?

beardedkid

So, most of these complaints are the same ones leveled against WinMo, especially stability, only WinMo has more flexibility and things like MMS, Copy/Paste, Stereo BT, and video cameras. Only it's not as pretty to look at.
Great. Now I might have to start seriously checking out BB for my next phone again...

@silomunke: What all these phones need is the same setup we have on WinXP and (real) OSX. On real operating systems we decide when a program is running, when we want to close it completely, or when we want it floating in the background. I've been DYING for this kind of control on WinMo. Don't just put a stupid 'X' in the top corner, give me the ability to Close AND Minimize.
Two little buttons wont take up much space...

SomeAudioGuy

@dogcow: ok, ok. maybe this being my first apple device, it just didn't live up to my expectations. and just simple stuff, like it restarts itself at least once a day, for various reasons. safari shuts down unexpectedly.. etc etc...

curiouscomputer

Damnit! Summerboard equivalent for 2.0. It's the main reason why I jailbreak'ed 1.1.4 in the first place and why I didn't update to 2.0 until I decided to buy a 3G iPhone. Yes people. I brought one, finally! It's a nice phone and what's nicer is the sale of my Legacy iPhone 16Gb will pay for the upgrade. But damn I miss Summerboard. I hate those generic icons and no wallpaper in my screen. Jobs, please add this as a feature of the iPhone, pretty please.

apeguero

and there's a huge problem of bluetooth not working with uconnect

turi319

Can a brother get decent bookmark system for mp3's? I listen to a lot of aufio books and the system seems to "forget when i am in the audio book after doing a reboot. Then I have to spend 3-4 minutes figuring out what chapter and then where I am in said chapter.

OCed-8086

I wish it had the internet on it. That would be pretty cool.

(Yes, we want all these things, but you have to admit, it's the best mobile device in history)

BB7

I believe that "Universal Landscape" as it was so cleverly named is pretty important.

My large hands make it a pain to type while in portrait mode. That's right I have large hands:)

CribbageLeft

Also how bout letting us download songs over 3g? I don't care if it takes a little longer.

InfoMofo

@misterwho:

4) Ability to delete songs in ipod app

YES! You can already delete videos why oh why can't I delete podcasts? I almost always have half-listened podcasts that I don't want to delete so it becomes a weekly manual process of deleting them thru iTunes.

butaneko

This list is great minus MMS like some have said, but is it just me or are we still missing simple features like a reminder every 15 minutes(5 and 10 would be nice too) that you have a text, voicemail etc.

I can't stand not being reminded of a text message or voicemail. If you don't hear the .5 second notification you got a text message, you could go hours without getting that message. It's just annoying that you walk away from your phone for 2 seconds and have to wake the phone up to see if anything came in while you were away.

It's even worse for my wife who leaves the phone in her purse while at work, and used to listen for the reminder, but now has to dig the phone out of her purse and check it every hour or so.

Anybody with me?

smokindenali

In my opinion, FLASH SUPPORT is the biggest con for the iPhone next to copy & paste support. Seriously, with flash support the web browser would be perfect once the stability issues are addressed and this would open the door for a multitude of new and awesome apps!

iananthony

@Jolyrogr: you have to turn shift-lock on in your keyboard settings, it's still there.

twistfunk

One more thing! Why don't embedded YouTube clips you've watched not show up in the YouTube.App history?

Make it happen!!

butaneko

How about when you put the iPhone on silent mode via the switch it actually makes ALL the audio be silent? I was at church last Sunday and put my iPhone on silent and a friend sent me a link to some questionable material on YouTube. When the video started playing loudly, boy was I embarrassed!

MrYuk

How about a scroll feature in the slide to unlock screen that displays the headlines. It would be nice to have a slim bar that scrolls the headlines in the main screen too.

coreyfriedman

@MrYuk:
because that is a ringer mute switch, not a volume mute switch?

dogcow

Hope Apple's paying attention to this. Got it memorized, Jobsy?

PC+Mac Coexist

@th3gh05t: Exxxxactly

Here's my list:

1. MMS (given)
2. Video (given)
3. Copy+Paste (given)
4. Delete individual messages/calls
5. Timestamp option on Text Messages!!
6. Dialed/Received calls (missed calls could be in red)
7. Call information (how long a call was)
8. A2DP
9. Email Search (Getting picky now)
10. Ability to change the actual wallpaper/background (Jailbreak, FTW)
11. Turn-By-Turn

rcast1986

AMEN, AMEN BROTHA!

gloveofpower

why does the second row of the keyboard have less buttons? thats just insane. I use the letter ä very often and it kills me everytime to keep a pushed untill i get to choose the ä. somebody please put the ä in the second row.

darklybishop

Like so many others out there, just make it stable and a landscape keyboard in SMS, Notes....etc.

Rondogg96

er.....safari-esque *landscape* keyboard....

Concrete_Particulars

@don_moron: I couldn't agree more, sir.

Pretty please. With sugar on top. Treat users as educated adults and give us the option to turn off the auto-proofreader.

Alternatively, maybe if there was a safari-esque portrait keyboard for SMS/email we would spend more time hitting the right keys, and less time opting out of every stupid "alternative spelling".....

Concrete_Particulars

there is nothing i hate more than keyboard lag on my iPhone.. oh well maybe when it goes black and I have to do a soft reset.. that is pretty lame too.

i'd also like to see improved data connection

wholesale iPhone 3g

yadig22

i have never read that anyone has complpained about the ability too organize your photos on the phone. i now have about 300 photos and i just cant be botherd to organize them on my mac. i want to do it on the jesus phone

indeo

Oh, Giz. How do I love thee... This is my first post so first let me gush. You convinced me to abandon Verizon (and a horrible Razr) for the iPhone. I haven't looked back since. However my phone has crashed 5 times (one of which was so bad I had to wait for the battery to die to restart it), I have found a crack in the case (black) and I cannot tell you how disappointing the keyboard lag has been. I think you guys hit the nail on the head with this top ten list!

jhnsn_j

As a business user who frequently gets mail from Outlook in all it's poorly written html glory, i often find that any message I get from an Outlook user that contains an image zoomed out so that the whole image will fit on the screen thus making the text unreadable. I think one of the greatest things about the iPhone vs. the Blackberry is the email client's ability to read full graphic full html mail without doing all the ridiculous reformatting that blackberries and treos do. The only problem is that sometimes Mails scaling algorithm could use some tweaking so that it zooms to fit the text on the screen and scales any images appropriately. I'm not sure what the problem is with Outlook generated mail but it's really annoying.

An alternative fix would be to simply let me change the screen orientation in the mail client, instead of just safari.

mcginnisb

Stop ripping out the EXIF (specifically GPS information), and stop resizing the photo, when sending them via email. And pleeeeease let me send contact information via SMS. Patrik

YangMocker

2.0 sucks. It is buggy as hell, my phone is sluggish, the UI doesn't respond after input... Ugh. I want apple to fix it. NOW.

OZSkier

lotus support

stre

@kpuri: Push Email - the reason you bought an iphone, right?

Rodime

@Sean Robertson:

Great Idea about moving icons down to dots. How about a screen in iTunes where you could MAP OUT your apps on several surrogate iPhone screens, so you can see them all at once, and drag and drop where you please. When you sync, BOOM!, you're done.

PBKman

@ Sean Robertson:

Great Idea about moving icons down to dots. How about a screen in iTunes where you could MAP OUT your apps on several surrogate iPhone screens, so you can see them all at once, and drag and drop where you please. When you sync, BOOM!, you're done.

PBKman

Am I going to be the first one to request a non-laggy update of the Contacts app? My contacts take 6 seconds to load sometimes and scroll like they are having a seizure for the following 2 seconds. I know I'm not the only one. It's super annoying considering how on a phone you need to get to your contacts multiple times a day.

HoneyCosby

Having lived with 2.0 on a first generation phone for awhile now, I have to say I have been disappointed without how much my phone has slowed down. The touch screen is not as responsive and when I do select something, there is a definite lag before the next screen appears. I tried wiping out some songs to make more room on the drive - didn't help. I hope Apple can speed this thing up!

My top pet peeve that was addressed in 2.0 - a dedicated Contacts button on the Home screen. Woo hoo!

sbacon1999

Hey guys, I was listening to a TWIT podcast, and they had a great idea to an easier way to move around icons. One thing you can do, is take one thing out of the dock at the bottom, put it at the end, then put the application you want moved forwards (probably one you just updated) into the dock, move to the screen you wanted, then drag it out. Do this as many times as you'd like, then at the very end just go back to the last page and put back the app that you took out of the dock originally. Hope this helps people, it sure helped me!

ProsperCaesar

Whats 3G mean? I thought this was iPhone 2.0? or did I fall asleep and the 3rd one is already out?!?

ShakambariSarpedon