7 improvements we'd like in a next-generation iPhone
As the Apple World Wide Developers Conference approaches and the company prepares to roll out a new version of the iPhone operating system, the Mac rumor sites have been buzzing about what a next-generation iPhone might bring to the market. While some of Apple's iPhone plans are known, here's a list of seven other improvements that we would like to see:
1) Multitasking: One of my pet peeves with the iPhone is not being able to run more than one application simultaneously. For example, I often listen to the American Public Radio application, but I can't check e-mail at the same time. Jailbroken iPhones can run a "background application" that lets users run more than one app at once, but it would be nice to be able to multitask without breaking the iPhone's warranty.
2) SMS contacts: BlackBerry and Nokia owners may find this hard to believe, but the iPhone out of the box doesn't allow users to SMS contacts from their phone to other phones. This is a very basic feature that many other phones have had for years, and a very useful one considering the billions of mobile phone accounts in existence.
3) Primitive call logs: Another basic functionality beef that some annoyed iPhone users have cited: The iPhone's "primitive" call log. It doesn't let you see whether a call was incoming or outgoing, view call logs more than 30 days old, or see how long a call lasted. "I cannot believe iPhone call log is so primitive," a user named Mettur Man wrote on the Apple iPhone forum. "I like the product in general, it does not mean I have to accept every shortcomings of the product."
4) Syncing media: Syncing ripped or purchased media between multiple computers has always been a headache with iTunes, iPods, and iPhones, due to DRM concerns and technical issues. On Apple's iPhone forum, there are complaints that the iPhone's iTunes application won't complete a sync on more than one computer.
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