Apple will be revealing details on iPhone OS 4 on Thursday, April 8. Millions of iPhone users around the world will be psyched to learn about all the new features coming to their beloved handsets. Until then, I want to hear your predictions! What do you think Apple is unveil on Thursday? Multitasking? The ability to blend and run Crysis at the same time? Let me know (please)!
This is honestly the first time I don't even know what to hope for in the next major software release. I should do some research on 4.0 rumors. here are a couple of things I'd like to see
iBooks on iPhone/iPod touch – I don't see why they should limit it to the ipad only. my kindle app works great on my phone.
I don't know how I feel about multitasking, it would be good to have an option, but the only app I'd want multitasking for is Pandora.
I'd like to be able to view in Maps my photo locations. Since they are geotagged I don't see why this isn't an option (I believe the ipad does have that option)
Oh, and this doesn't have to do with Apple but I really wish AT&T would get tethering activated on iPhone already. Their "coming soon" is a little ridiculous at this point.
I'm more excited about the new hardware. but that won't be talked about until June I imagine
I will be excited if they announce Verizon being a new partner with all of this.
@bsukenyan If that announcement happens, I think it would be at the WWDC. This event appears to be strictly software.
One little feature I'd like to see is rotation lock. I like to read web sites on my iPhone before I go to sleep. I hate when my place is lost because I move and the screen reorients itself.
Aside from that and multitasking, other rumored features are free GPS navigation (first party), SMS groups, email attachments, and SMS groups.
@smartguy
Agreed.
@smartguy – I'll give you that, but I'd be happier to complain about that if they actually got the service up and running, haha
@ray, that would be a nice feature. I too have had issues with websites in bed. I know the ipad has a button solution for that but if there were some way to easily screen lock I'd be all for it.
@ Sandrock
Are you implying that you can't run a different OS on a Mac?
@shockwave
Revert back to 3.0 and tether all day long. No MMS though lol.
I would love to tether. Didn’t apple say we would have tethering at the fall of 2009? what’s up with that at&t. I wish i could revert back to 3.0!
@smartguy – ya I know that hacks are possible, thing is I’d be happy to pay for it if AT&T could just f’n deliver.
@tokz
Apple kept their end of the bargain. The rest is ATT.
@shockwave
You’d pay an extra $30 per month for 5gb of data? I’d consider $5. I’m already paying for data with the $30, I’d like to be able to use it however I would like.
@smartguy
Oh i know it’s at&t’s fault, that’s why i said what’s up with at&t. I don’t think, we as iphone users should pay extra for tethering. You figure that would be covered in our $30.00 unlimited data plan. isn’t that the reason we have it for anyways?
@smartguy – well technically our office would pay an extra $30. it’s either that or a mobile internet device. though I might rather go with Verizon, but they are like $60 for solo internet I think
@Ray
I can always dream, lol. If it doesn’t end up happening this year, they will most likely end up losing me to the windows mobile 7 platform. It
(my computer posted before I was ready to)
it seems like a pretty good platform, and it is supposed to hit later this year and have cool features available since I have a 360…that’s a good tie-in for me, my phone on verizon’s network and compatibility with my 360 pretty much sold me.
I’m just waiting for Apple to give me features I don’t even realize I want yet (ref. the “MacBook Wheel” video from theonion.com).
Honestly, I’m not sure I want anything huge; I’m pretty content with the setup. I do miss having a dedicated Tasks app from my days owning a Palm Treo, but without a desktop client to match (preferably one that syncs through MobileMe) that’s worthless to me, better notifications on the home screen (again, something I miss from my Treo), and then of course the tethering, not that Apple has anything to do with that now. I’m not even sure if I need multitasking anymore; I think not having it for so long has caused me to change the way I use the device.
Though I wouldn’t mind if they added something cool like a missile defense system for my laptop… muahahaha
@shockwave
Aside from a company footing the bill, the charge for tethering is asinine.
@tokz
I think any phone that you are charged data on should allow tethering.
@tethering
Each phone I have gotten lately free tethering is a must! On my Bold I had to do some research, but without hacking or anything I am tethered. I just had to look up all of the settings required to make a dial-up connection.
All WinMo phones make tethering a cinch (unless its disabled like on Sprint phones). Just click usb modem and done.
AT&T shouldn’t charge extra for tethering and then limit your data. Do one or the other but not both. Because $60/month for unlimited cell data & 5gb of tethered data is a rip.
Now that I have (Temporarily?) defeated my work web blocker, I’m not worrying about getting a phone right now. Back to waiting on WinPhone7.
Last night I again decided I hate the iPhone. A friend gave me a 3G one to take home so we could play Words With Friends. It worked fine at his house over his WiFi (no sim card in it), then I get it home and spend 3 hours trying to get it to actually connect to my network. It said connected but nothing worked. I worked on it until the battery completely died. Got maybe 5 hours out of it before it crapped out. How anyone can put up with the sub-par quality of this Apple product blows me away.
@SlickyFats
They should just let us install our own OS like we do with PCs. That way you can pick the set-up that works best for you. (Apple is not included in this for OBVIOUS reasons.)
I am so hoping for Multitasking.
@N8R
I'm implying if they could stop you they would. That and their protective nature of the iPhone in general.
@ Sandrock
They can stop you, and do to a degree… but they don't.
With the iPhone, I think they just want all the responsibility for any failures it could incur otherwise. See, AppleCare is part of the ball of wax. They can't insure other people's product… like the OS. The way they gat away with it with Mac's is because you can partition the HDD (a real partition, not a soft one) and delete the whole thing if necessary OR you run Windows, Chrome OS, or Ubuntu inside an application called Parallels and delete that if necessary. As for running a Mac without an Apple OS… I don't think you can. But if you bought a Mac, why would you want to?
I've said this before, it depends on what you use a computer for. If you're a gamer (in the fanboy realm) and use your computer for games, hands down Windows is for you. If you do graphics, music, video, or web design… hands down Mac is for you. If you just search the internet and check email, chances are Chrome OS will be for you. As for Ubuntu, all I really know about it is that it's the safest, most secure, and most reliable OS that currently exists. What kind of software it runs… beats me.
@N8R
I know about bootcamp. (dual meaning FTW!) I'm just saying that I couldn't honestly see Apple letting people do that to their coveted iPhone. I can see them jumping in and letting people install their phone OS on other phones though.
@ Sandrock
Because if no smartphones let you do it, it's kind of outlandish to point a finger at Apple without pointing fingers at everyone else, right?
Can you take Win 7 off of that HTC phone and put on a different OS?
@ Sandrock
I don’t see them doing that with the iPhone OS either.
I agree with you, it’s just a matter of why that I think is where we’re not on the same page. I don’t think it’s a 100% “mark our territory” thing. I think alot has to do with guaranteeing their product, like with AppleCare. If you have AppleCare and jailbreak your phone, it voids it because of the security risks. Now, even when you jailbreak it, you can always default it. If you had a different OS altogether on it… it’s not their problem, but they’d rather it be their problem.
Do other smartphones let you switch the OS on them?
@N8R
Not that I’m aware, but HTC has a Win 7 phone.
@N8R
It wasn’t about Apple to start with. I was originally saying that everyone should let you do that.
As for the phone, it’s $1500. I don’t think there are many people who would try it at that price, but I would think it would be the same as installing a different OS on PC.