In June of 2007 I wrote a post titled “Seemingly obvious software features missing from the iPhone“.
Today, iPhone OS 3.0 will be available and the iPhone 3G S is shipping, so I thought it’d be interesting to see how things stand now.
Below is the original list, with the items that are now covered striked through:
- Video recording
- Voice-note recording
- VoIP (like Skype) functionality
- .Mac syncing
- Copy/Paste
- Ringtones from your music
- Synchronization thrugh WiFi or Bluetooth (done through MobileMe)
- Keychain (password storing)
- Objective C/ Cocoa SDK
- Dashboard/Widget support (outside of Safari)
- iChat (through 3rd party applications)
- A2DP
- Voice dialing
- Games
- Slot for memory cards
- Spotlight
- Java
- Flash
- MMS
- Geolocation
- eBooks
- Built in RSS Reader (through 3rd party applications)
- SSH ((through 3rd party applications – client only)
- Bonjour iTunes sharing
- Printing support (through 3rd party applications)
- Video teleconferencing
Almost everything is covered now. What do you think the new list should contain? Here’s a recent article with 25 still-missing features.
I know this is more of a tweak than a feature, but how about a preference to tell the iPhone not to pop up that annoying Wifi hotspot chooser? If I want to connect to Wifi there should be a little icon at the top of the screen I can touch to bring up the list of hotspots.