Mar 17 2009
What to expect from iPhone 3.0 – Apple 2.0
What to expect from iPhone 3.0 – Apple 2.0.
Any and/or all of these would be great:
- Copy and paste. Better two years late than never, according to multiple sources. See, for example, here and here.
- Push notification. So Facebook, say, could alert you when you have a new message. This was promised in June 2008, but not yet delivered.
- MMS — Multimedia Messaging Service. So you can forward those pictures sent to you by friends with far less sophisticated cell phones. Maybe yes, maybe no.
- Better mail program. Why can’t you search past messages? Read them in landscape mode? Delete then en masse?
- Internet sharing. For those times when your iPhone has access but your laptop doesn’t. Apple and AT&T have both said so-called “tethering” is coming real soon now.
- Bluetooth support. Currently available only for phone headsets. Could be expanded to support wireless keyboards, speaker systems, file exchanges, syncing etc.
- Flash support. So you’d see videos and dancing advertisements instead of those little blue cubes. Adobe (ADBE) says its Flash Player software is ready and waiting for Apple’s approval.
- Better App management. The current interface is barely capable of organizing 148 applications, never mind 28,000.
- Voice dialing and turn-by-turn directions. Quick, before iPhone users cause any more traffic accidents.
- Video capture. It can be done without modifying the built-in camera as iPhone Video Recorder, an application available only for jailbroken iPhones, has shown.
- A new browser. The current version of iPhone Safari is nearly two years old and starting to get a little long in the tooth.
