"I'm not sure who would want to live without keyboard auto-correction though-that would take a mastery of multitouch typing that I have yet to see."

Well, everyone *else* who want's it off, would want it off. Now, I know that you, with your vast worldly experience and knowledge are the de-facto auto-correction expert, may you live for ever in glory! But, allow us, others, pariahs, if I may call us that, some leverage and a way to decide if we actually want to delve outside of your safety bubble and live on the edge by turning the *uc***g auto annoyance off.

tabaks

Any word on directional GPS? That's the function I look out for the most. And emoji = awesome!

and MMS is useless

Neone

@juicebytim:

yeah same here. it does work most of the time though.

rudez90

@mcg1969:
Considering the iPhone doesn't have emoji support as of now, the answer doesn't exactly take Sherlock Holmes to deduce.

DisposableInterloper

this is considered more important than mms and copy/paste?? i really hate you apple. i really do.

rudez90

@juicebytim:
The autocorrect feature is the single handiest feature for me. Once the spellchecker learned my typing habits and I got just a little muscle memory, I could start typing faster and more comfortably than I ever could with a regular thumbpad (not that I'm some super-speedy typist). I can't even imagine typing on something other than the iPhone's keypad now. Lazy keystrokes and gentle taps FTW.

DisposableInterloper

@jabiez: I believe the Compass view feature is only valid on the Android phones, and is not a feature of the iPhone (as it does not have said compass in it).

But yes, that's what it does, rotate the map to orient with whatever way you're facing. Not sure about the street view.

bobman1235

I'd way rather have MMS than copy/paste. TeleNav integration would be sweeeet too

Enrique

So they consider emoticons a priority over MMS and Copy/Paste? Thanks Apple.

blachole

If anyone asks about copy/past I'll Hunt you down and shit on you.

Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass

cut and paste or gtfo.

grspec

Yeah, I still want that TeleNav integration.

Lev_Astov

If anyone sends me a text with emoji, I will hunt them down and...[censored]

achinda99

Underwhelmed....

FizzyPop

I'm not sure who would want to live without keyboard auto-correction though-that would take a mastery of multitouch typing that I have yet to see.

Although this may be true, the auto-correction's poor/lack of self-adaptability truly hurts it. I know it's supposed to not suggest things after you X them a few times, but that just does *not* work as advertised.... unless I'm just somehow doing it wrong?

Keebler

Did you mean to say that lack of emoji support has been blamed for
slower iPhone sales? That is, is lack of emoji support slowing iPhone sales, or has Apple's lack of interest in implementing emoji due to the slow pace of iPhone sales in Japan?

mcg1969

@juicebytim: I just wish it would learn to swear. I don't ducking like that shot.

shockwaver

The iPhone's keyboard auto-correction has caused me more frustration than it has helped me out...

1 out of 3 emails/texts I will have to correct the auto-correction at least one time.

juicebytim

Does the compass view means the iPhone knows which way you're pointing it and changes the Street view orientation? If so, that is really cool, but I don't think it's all that useful if you don't have map/camera implementation.
PS: weird these japanese...

jabiez

@danmandle:
I think that still falls under SMS.. not sure though..

kayno

So does that mean that they'll start supporting MMS?

danmandle

That better not be it? give me more!!!

kayno

STILL no Cut & Paste!!!!

I'm sorry, but failing to listen to the single biggest complaint I have heard from iPhone users is moving Apple into the Microsoft 'We know whats good for you' arena.

Baldyman1966

@Neone: I don't know a single person who has EVER used emoji. I get MMS messages all the time and can't open them b/c of my iphone. Neone = Fail

danmandle

Really, how hard is it to add cut and paste and why is apple resisting? Also, why can't I search my emails? These seem like no-brainers to me. Does anyone use the iphone for work? Having a search feature for my mailbox would be perfect and is so basic!

i1ducati

You know what? Street View is kickass & all, but I really need support for the transit options on Google Maps...I mean, I know that they've only been released in the main US market for public transit (NYC) for about two weeks, but I'm desparate for transit info on my iPhone...you know, something that might actually be valid in the real world...

Or am I just missing something and this has already been built in and I just haven't heard anything about it?

Lupus_Yonderboy

@Keebler:
That's weird. My iPhone's autocorrect feature adapted pretty well to my typing habits within the first week / week-and-a-half of my owning it. Maybe my habits are just in line with the iPhone's way of doing things.

DisposableInterloper

@juicebytim: You have to correct the auto-correction, sure, but obviously you had mis-typed in the first place, and would therefore have to go back and fix even MORE of your message if auto-correct wasn't there. Right? I'm very curious to hear how you feel when you have the ability to shut it off.

bobman1235

@Keebler:

No, you aren't. The damn thing is so badly conceived that I am AMAZED Apple stubbornly refuses to fix that. It is SO bad that I suspect it must be a favorite "feature" of His Steveness. It is so bad and insultingly stupid not to be able to turn it off that I promised myself, just now, to jailbreak the phone to turn it off if it doesn't come out toggle-able in 2.2.

tabaks

@undefined:
It's just like any other auto feature. It has to learn. It needs to learn what words you use more often, what shorthands you use, etc. I absolutely love it. Like I use I'LL 100 times more often than ill, so if I just type i l l, the iPhone corrects it to I'll. I think most people are just too damn impatient.

xious

@Baldyman1966: According to multiple customer support staff with apple and at&t, the most requested feature is MMS. It still boggles the mind that it isn't a feature.

shalegac

landscape keyboard for mail & sms, with fries please!

kingshrimp

MMS for iPhone doesn't work in the US? It works just fine in Japan :/

And yeah Cut & Paste kthx.

squampton

Sweet! Now you can tell exactly where you are without ever having to look up at the world around you!

Ron-Mexico

/Crosses fingers
but
doesn't hold breath.

OprahBabb

@Neone: Sure, useless, except everyone uses it and it's essentially an industry standard that the iPhone does not support.

bobman1235

Is there an UNSUCK feature button? MMMMMK.

Stacky Botrus

@juicebytim: I had this problem as well, but i found that when things finally got unbearable with the typing you simply had to reset the keyboard dictionary - each time you do this over time you begin to aggregate the benefits of muscle memory and repetition. Trust me - you'll find things getting much better.

jhcovert

@blachole: haha.. so sad

Sorablade

@shalegac:

Ok well I guess these must be the 2 Biggest complaints then :)

Baldyman1966

Stupid icons and street view? It's jackassery like this that almost makes me wish for WinMo again. I mean seriously... these are the two features they thought would improve the device?!?!

On another note, I agree that the supposedly adaptive suggestion typing does not work. I know I talk like a sailor at times but if I have to go back and change He'll, and fuching back to Hell and F%@&ing one more time I may punch Jobs myself.... that is if he wasn't so frail from coming back from the dead and a heart attack.

MorganRW

Autocorrection really doesn't work well for languages other than english. I write most of the time in french and it often suggests totally irrevelant english words for valid french words. It sucks big time.

If at least it worked the other way around: unless you explicitly tap on the word, it shouldn't make the correction; it's really frustrating when you're typing fast.

Grodesh

Add Free tethering and there we go...

Benitocarmona

Can we use the accelerometer to control street-view? That would be pretty impressive. Better yet combine it with the camera view and image comparison between the stored and live images to correct for GPS errors. Then overlay the geocoded information to yield an augmented reality app. Further, allow people to capture images on street view on the ground to improve street-view.

...ok, ok, not anytime soon, but perhaps such advances might be a sign of things to come.

Schalliol

I like the street view update on my BB google maps. Works nice despite edge lag. It's nice to be able to read reviews on business search now too.

marc_wtih_a_c

@Lupus_Yonderboy:

Google maps (on the iphone) is so car centric... usually, trips that can be done by foot or bus or bike are routed to take advantage of the freeway...

Great... maybe these guys love it crimanimalz.com

flunkycarter

"I'm not sure who would want to live without keyboard auto-correction though-"

I would, the auto-correct HATES ME!

It will not let me type:

My last name - Aschan (try it, it won't let you type the 'n' at the end.)

My city - Norristown. (It won't let you type the second 'r')

My GF's company (Lego! of all things. It won't let you type the 'o'.)

And a few other words that it won't let me type. It's actually really frustrating.

akacrash

I'm not sure who would want to live without keyboard auto-correction though-that would take a mastery of multitouch typing that I have yet to see.

I have the answer for you as to why someone would turn off the autocorrect feature. If someone regularly texts or emails in more than one language. I (and several people I know) email and text in both english and spanish. Since autocorrect only uses the language that is associated with your locale, it can only autocorrect in one language. If you write a spanish email (or any other language that is not the one you have as your default) without actively watching and declining the suggestions, you wind up sending an email full of gibberish. Again, its an issue for multi-lingual people (not people that always use spanish in the US or somoething like that, because you can just change your localization settings for that)

ebetancourt

@i1ducati:

Because once you add cut and paste, 80% of the things you can do on your desktop, you could do on your IPhone and that would slow Mac sales way down...

Pay_Me_Or_Pay_Me_No_Attention

Apple crossed into Microsoftesque territory long ago.

By the way...typing the word 'give' and having the autocorrect replace it with HIV is really starting to piss me off. I know my gf just found it super hot when I sent her the message 'come over quickly so I can HIV it to you.' :)

paulnptld

WOW, that was the only reason i though Google phone was cool. Now iPhone is just as good.

vgart

@i1ducati:
Hear, hear! I switched from Palm OS to iPhone and while I don't regret it, I miss search and cut and paste. It's ridiculous to have to write down something, go to another iPhone app and then have to type it again.

stryder100

still no push? That was promised for last month. It's unlike the Big Fruit to promise a deadline and completely ignore it.

shiftyeyedgoat

@shiftyeyedgoat:

Or to at least hold a Town Hall meeting or whatnot to tell everybody that it's going to be late and why. And then usually reiterate the features they already told us about, lol.

MadCow234

@kingshrimp:

I second landscape keyboard for mail and SMS!!

MadCow234

@squampton:

I'm confused...how does MMS work in Japan if there's no MMS app? Am I missing something here? Could you elaborate please?

MadCow234

@Lupus_Yonderboy:

I know this is not a native fix, but I believe there are subway and bus route applications for different cities around the world (including New York, if I'm not mistaken). Having never used one of them, I can't exactly recommend them, but it's something to check out.

MadCow234

I hope this is True.. Please.. Cut and Paste! all ready! Steve we all know you read
Gizmodo! so Please MMS if you can 2 ?

DJJS

Sounds good to me. Any news on push notification? It really is getting a bit absurd now...

ThisCharmingMan

WHAT THE F*** WHY? WHY? WHY?
WHY DO WE NEED ANY OF THIS SHIT. WHERE IS MMS. WE WANT MMS. NOT TO SEE CARS IN GOOGLE MAPS
WE NEED TURN BY TURN APPS, WE NEED MMS, WE NEED A NATIVE VIDEO RECORDER, WE NEED AN ITUNES STORE APP THAT USES 3G AND NOT WIFI, WE NEED COPY AND PASTE, WE NEED THE BASICS THE BASICS. THATS ALL I ASK FOR , JUST THE BASICS, JUST PICK SOMETHING AND MAKE IT HAPPEN.

richillion

@tabaks: Some people can't spell, so they love this feature. Others, can spell, mean what they type and type what they mean, and/or use foreign words. Either way, I will be turning MY auto-correction off. It drives me insane!

darex

@Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass:
:P

grspec

"I'm not sure who would want to live without keyboard auto-correction though-that would take a mastery of multitouch typing that I have yet to see."

Have you ever tried writting anything in a language language that isn't english with autocorrection, it's a nightmare

frvjum

@achinda99:
and poke them in da butt?

F_munk

@Lupus_Yonderboy: I completely agree, adding Google Transit is an absolute must.

phlavor

@DisposableInterloper: Well, since they've corrected the article, I think my point was made. However, my not-so-obvious alternative is not without defense. I mean, to us nerds, copy/paste is an important feature, but Apple has apparently run the numbers and decided we nerds aren't a large enough consituency. Same with emoji: perhaps it has been on the drawing board for some time now but given a low priority because so few people care about it.

mcg1969

I'm not sure who would want to live without keyboard auto-correction though-that would take a mastery of multitouch typing that I have yet to see.

sorry to say, but this last sentence is a bit ingorant and represents a typical part as a lot of europeans see you americans:
most of you know sh*t about other countries.

since the auto correction may work properly or at least much better in english you probably didnt notice that it works like sh*t in some other languages.
the german version (germany is probably the biggest market right after the US) definitly is bad. it suggests words that dont even exist and it doesnt recognize some of the most simple words.

now its going to be a little more exotic: switzerland. probably no one in the hq of apple knows that in switzerland we speak swiss-german and also write in swiss-german, at least between friends. business is in standard german. and there are at least 24 different versions of swiss-german (dialects). now imagine having to click X after every single word you write on your iphone. putting a auto-correction on/off switch into the settings is probably one of the easiest parts for the developers and should be standard anyway since even 10 year old mobile phones have this feature.

noi5ia

@kayno: i dont know if they will support mms but i can tell you it is not the same as mms

oh_nos

how about some MMS.

also for texting the time stamping seems random You should be able to have it either fully on or off. my Palm centro does that and for texting its good to be able to reference the time the text came through.

ChargedC6

Is there any info if the update includes the following?

1. Copy/Paste.
2. Ability to edit documents such as OpenDoc and PDF.
3. Ability to record/send video & audio podcasts.
4. Camera enhancements such as digital zoom, low light settings, etc.
5. Ability to delete photos on the iPhone.
6. The Photograph app to actually categorize the photos as events as seen in iPhoto.
7. Ability to run apps in the background via push data such as for using chat messengers, streaming radio, etc.
8. Ability to tether for countries that allow tethering such as Canada.

imagine-engine

** NOT TRUE **
See what's actually included in 2.2 (so far) plus true screenshots on iPhoneYap:

[www.iphoneyap.com]

FireFish

FAKE - THIS IS A FANTASY FAKE SCREENSHOT

The real deal explained: [www.iphoneyap.com]

FireFish

The Street View & Emoticons are FUNNY & NOT REAL.

I know this because I'm actually a 2.2 tester.

For the truth about what 2.2 brings, see a bunch of screenshots & review at iPhoneYap; direct link:

iPhone OS 2.2 Review & Screenshot Gallery - [www.iphoneyap.com]

FireFish

FLASH SUPPORT!

krom

iPhone needs a built in compass!!!! Putting a pin on the map means nothing is you have clue as to which way is north!!!

JEmlay

video conferencing that splits the screen and acts with a web cam to show yourself talking to your friend and to see and communicate with your face being displayed like any other live web/ video conferencing call that fades in and out of the GPS mapping!

StealthNinja

Since it's satellite maps, but not live satellite video GPS mapping with video conferencing that can pin point/ triangulate your conferance/ or rendez vous's exact location and nav n go through traffic or on a walk or run! Tchao.

StealthNinja

SO when will it become, live video displays to show where you are or some one else with GPS, and any other site for a software application on a phone or a computer phone at least.

StealthNinja

@stryder100: Ya but why no search in email? I switched over from blackberry and have a few thousand messages in my inbox. Enterprise clients can't be happy without search, its impossible to find relevant emails when you are on the road. They should add spotlight to the iphone, or they are waiting for google to add email search to their app.

i1ducati