One of people’s big complaints is that the iPhone doesn’t have MMS. This isn’t a problem for me because I don’t use MMS. But can MMS be added in firmware/software? I don’t really know MMS, so I don’t know whether it has hardware requirements the iPhone doesn’t have.
Apparently, you can email photos, but they’re resized to 640×480 and EXIF data is stripped. I’m pretty sure this can be fixed in software, right?
Not the best iPod ever made. Leo Laporte says it is, but I disagree. My iPod nano was arguably just as good an iPod. It is very hard to fast forward on the iPhone. This is my biggest complaint. On a real iPod, you can press the center button and then “turn” the wheel to fast forward or rewind. This isn’t possible on the iPhone, as far as I can tell. There’s a slider, but it’s short because it appears only when the phone is in vertical mode. This is probably fine for songs, but it’s totally unusable for podcasts which are 1-2+ hours. Is there a better way to fast-forward and rewind on the iPhone that I’m just missing?
Leo Laporte also says the iPhone doesn’t know his name and can’t learn. Correct me if I’m wrong, because I haven’t tried it, but doesn’t the iPhone use your address book entries in its predictive typing? Leo should add his own name to his address book.
I have a theory about Apple’s decision to use EDGE, or 2.5G. Data costs providers money when we use more of it, right? So someone downloading 500 MB costs AT&T more than someone downloading 5 MB. That means they want to encourage people to use Wifi whenever possible. If this was 3G fast, people wouldn’t care about wi-fi. And of course we would want “unlimited data”. So we’d be downloading tons of stuff, YouTube videos and all, from AT&T’s network. Fortunately for them, they made it sufficiently slow that this is too painful to do, but gave us wi-fi so the burden goes on wireless routers and their broadband providers. This isn’t so much a theory as it is a random thought.
Here’s a simple, straightforward service to get pictures from your iPhone to other people. Yes, it involves e-mail, but you don’t have to remember each carrier’s e-mail domain (and let’s not even touch the fact of figuring out what carrier your friend is using if he/she’s changed carriers but kept their phone number…)
http://pktpix.com
I totaly agree with you guys, I think that apple will put all these features as second cam for video conference , mms and maybe bilt in GPS in the next generation on iphone . This generation in the market now i think it is just a matter of testing the market about the new technolegy in terms of touch and thin moile phone