I don't recall whether you covered iCal in your exhaustive wish list... but man, I sure would like to track a ToDo list from iCal.

One of those things that is more at home on an iPhone than in a PC.

Jim

Jim: We did indeed cover that one, in our "consensus" list:

http://www.macworld.com/2007/07/firstlooks/iphone_wishlist/index.php

You guys don't want too much now, do you? ;)

Sounds like you are looking for a Ultra Mobile Mac or something.

I'd be happy with 3rd party apps. That's pretty much it. The rest would come from that.

I guess I'm the only one who would like to be able to add Map search results to Contacts. You've found a business in Map, all the contact info is there, it would be nice if you could add it all to Conacts with the swipe of a finger.

I'm getting a bit tired of people complaining that when you ask for additional iPhone features, you're really just asking for an "ultra mobile Mac." Most of the features on our list are absolutely reasonable within the iPhone's interface and scope of features. And the ones that aren't, well, I didn't vote for those. ;-)

Not sure how higher-res photos for zooming, or the ability to e-mail directions from Google Maps, or to set the font in Notes so that it isn't butt-ugly Marker Felt, says that we're asking for a Mac. Unless "asking for a Mac" means anything that isn't taking the iPhone for what it is and believing that it doesn't need to grow and evolve.

I don't want the iPhone to be a handheld Mac, but I do think it's got lots of room to grow and improve without sacrificing its ease of use.

Since I'm an iPhone-free person who lives in an iPhone-free country, I can't confirm this, but Scott Bourne on MacBreak Weekly said the Weather icon now displayed the current temperature after applying the recent iPhone update.

Thomas: It must have been because the current temperature just happened to be 73 degrees when he checked ;-)

Thomas, Scott's just a little too iPhone fanboy for my tastes. A true "journalist"/"pundit", as the conversation prior to his blurt out that the weather icon had changed, would have spent some time to examine the facts before making such a claim.

Anyway, Jason, I'm not against a lot of the suggestions. However, we are talking close to 50 from all these different posts. Some of them push the limits of what I would expect from a smart phone.

One of the things I brag about with this phone to others is that it's "easy to use". Not just the email and browser, but the phone too. An example: most cell phones have the ability to merge two calls together. Figuring out how to do it, takes hours of digging in the manuals to find the button sequences to do it. Then you have to remember that for later. There is no need for this with the iPhone, it's right on the screen where you need to see it.

A lot of the fetures you requested are ones I just don't use anyway. Now, that's not to say others won't want them, but maybe an app that can be added could do that for some and not bother others. It's why I want to see true 3rd party apps on the phone. That would give us a choice of what features we want on our phone without having a lot of bloat that we don't want.

Personally, what I miss the most on this is iChat so that someone sending me an IM will show up like an SMS message does now. Unfortunately, I can't see that happening anytime soon since it would mean less money for AT&T as well as Apple. SMS makes both a good chunk of cash.

I would also like to see a decent List app that works without the need of a browser and internet connection.

Later, I would like to see games so that I could be entertained in other ways than movies/TV shows/music on a flight somewhere.

Those would be great starts.

Anyway, I too want to see the phone grow, but I don't want to see ease of use sacrificed at all. It's why I spent all the money I did on the phone in the first place.

Am I the only one who sees the TOTALLY OBVIOUS?? That the device has (a) a microphone, and (b) a computer operating system? So the OBVIOUS needed application -- and what would be, in fact, a KILLER APP -- is DICTATION SOFTWARE. A program, like iListen, for example, that would let a user dictate an outgoing Email. that he or she could later pick up on a home computer, and send to a printer, for example . . .

Fonts. Now that's an original thought.

Remember the Macintosh? Remember one of the things that made it really cool and different than all those other computers?

It would be nice to see the iPhone pick up a few of the cornerstone traits of the Mac. These days the Mac has become so much more than its early incarnation as a publishing power tool we forget what its strengths were.

But, it's not a biggie. I'll take cut and paste over more type faces any day now:-)

But as long as we're there, basic document editing is a must. And it would be nice to do it in an ap (or better yet, do it with a wide choice of aps, Mr. third party developers... oh I forgot). Seriously, a lot of people could get a lot of work done with a document creation, editing and storing. I can see doing web page edits that blind side surprise me on the weekends (but in reality take just a few moments in a text editor) if only it was possible.

I really think that third party development is going to solve 75% of the issues addressed in this series, just because it will enable a whole community to attack those gaping holes Apple will not be able to tackle itself (because remember they have that old Macintosh OS they're working on too).

With a real SDK, officially encouraging third party development and some basic system updates/enhancements (like cut and paste, another Mac hallmark), we would probably see all the shortcomings outside of the hardware bits, addressed.

That being said, I totally aplaud the early strategy to keep third party development out in order to ensure a solid launch. Now that we've had that launch, please bring on the OSX developers.

I agree, I totally want to save a general map location as a bookmark.

I would like a field added to Calendar with a phone number so that when a Calendar alarm comes up there will be an association with a phone number than can be clicked to make a call.

One of your suggestions has to do with ease of creating bookmarks for locations on the map.

A tiny bit of a timesaver is to create a group of contacts called "locations" or "places" in your Address Book app on the Mac and then Sync that group to your iPhone and use it within the Map application on the iPhone.

/dave

Please add streaming stereo audio to the bluetooth - I mean wouldn't it be great to be able to be wireless for the ipod side of the iphone...

Come on the Q does it, and the chipset supports it - why not just turn it on?

Fred, we actually included that in our iPod-related list:

http://iphone.macworld.com/2007/08/our_iphone_wish_list_the_ipod.php