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Now in its third generation, the iPhone handset has fabricated improvements with anniversary alternating model. This year, though, the improvements are beneath about what you see and added about what's arranged beneath the chassis--and what's attainable in the iPhone OS 3.0 software amend (accessible to accepted iPhone owners and on new iPhone 3G S units).
That's not to say that the iPhone 3G S isn't good. In fact, this new archetypal is amid the best handsets on the bazaar today. Still, the 3G S's aggregate of accouterments and software continues to absence the mark in a few analytical areas, and these deficiencies anticipate the iPhone from leaping far advanced the competition.
1. Mass Accumulator Connectivity
Why can't I affix an iPhone to my PC and again annoyance and bead files assimilate it? Apple says that it has advised introducing a deejay mode, of the blazon activate on all iPods, but feels that the iPhone's admirers doesn't crave one. I disagree. Early adopters and the action workers that Apple is targeting (now that iPhone 3G S has accouterments encryption and added enterprise-friendly features) would abundantly acknowledge direct-to-device book transfers. Plus, the adequacy would abridge appointment photos and added accordant abstracts files (such as Excel spreadsheets and PDF files) to the device. The closing affection is abnormally important as the iPhone grows anytime afterpiece to advancing with netbooks (a brace of appointment abundance apps are already attainable for the iPhone). Right now, to apprehend a Word or Excel book or a PDF, you'll charge to e-mail it to yourself, and apprehend it from aural your e-mail. (Some files are accurate over Google Docs, as well.)
I admit that Apple hopes we'll all subscribe to its $99-a-year MobileMe service, and accord its billow iDisk accumulator a try. But that isn't activity to arise above the iPhone's boilerplate market, nor is it activity to arise with the tech-savvy audience. The eventually Apple realizes this, the better.
With the iPhone 3G S attainable in capacities up to 32GB, it makes added faculty than anytime for Apple to acquiesce users to alteration raw abstracts to the device. In some cases, users may appetite to admission the abstracts from the device; in others, they may appetite to use the accumulator to move files from PC to PC (why backpack a tiny, calmly confused USB beam drive for your important assignment files, aback you can abundance files on your phone, which is beneath acceptable to disappear--or go through the washer).
2. Broader Abstracts Handling
Why is there no way to save argument letters on an iPhone? (At atomic with the 3G S you can archetype and adhesive a bulletin into a agenda or e-mail message; but that's not the aforementioned as actuality able to annal an absolute cilia or to e-mail all or allotment of a cilia to yourself.) And what's with the aged Addendum app, which banned you to exporting a Agenda by e-mailing it to yourself? That brake is antic at this date of the iPhone's development. A simple yet abundant advance would be to accomplish such addendum arise as argument files that users could accessible in Windows Explorer. Bigger still: Accord iPhone users absolute admission to the files, and aback up the files aural iTunes (currently, you can accompany Addendum into Outlook and annihilation else).
3. iTunes Reconstructed for Abstracts Management
Apple's iTunes began activity eight years ago as a music jukebox that interfaced with the aboriginal iPods and after with the iTunes Music Store. Fast-forward to 2009, aback iTunes has gone far above its aboriginal purpose.
At this point, alive with iTunes' called abstracts administration interface is affiliated to application Windows 3.1's Book Manager in a Mac OS X Snow Leopard environment. ITunes' chaotic interface contradicts Apple's minimalist architecture aesthetics, and the airheaded for syncing Info, Ringtones, Music, Photos, Podcasts, Video, and Applications are a text-and-check-box travesty.
ITunes is continued behind for an overhaul, accustomed the able functionality of the iPhone (and of the iPod Touch, for that matter). Why can't I drag-and-drop into iTunes? Why can't I acceptation specific photos into iTunes? Or appearance applications by their icons, instead of accepting to resort to a argument name that I adeptness not alike recall? How about authoritative it easier for me to acceptation self-generated video--from aural the called syncing interface?
If Apple were to agitate up and adapt iTunes with an eye against simplicity, it could additionally accomplish the account far added able and compelling. And that, in turn, would accomplish the iPhone belvedere alike added adorable than it is today.
4. Improved Integration With the Web
The iPhone's hooks into calendars feel abundantly archaic. Calendar syncing is bound to Outlook and CalDAV; but if Palm's WebOS and its Pre smartphone can extend this action seamlessly above assorted calendars, why can't Apple and the iPhone do so in Gen 3? Granted, with an iPhone you can accompany contacts with Outlook, Yahoo Address Book, Google Contacts, and Windows; but why can't you admission those acquaintance lists anon from the iPhone's Contacts app to activate with? Stronger ties with existing, accustomed Web casework would advice accomplish the iPhone a added Web-centric communications handset.
5. A Bigger Camera--Really
Yes, Apple has bumped the camera in the iPhone 3G S up to 3 megapixels and added tap acknowledgment to focus/expose and macro functionality. But the camera needs added assignment to advance its continuing in today's active camera buzz competition.
Let's alpha with the megapixel count. The iPhone 3G S's 3 megapixels feels about entry-level in allegory to the offerings of today's high-flying phones. Such models as the Nokia N97 accept already accomplished 5 megapixels, and college megapixels are actualization with greater abundance on cher camera phones. Bang up the megapixels and the angel quality, Apple, and you bang up the device's functionality--and its adeptness to ample in for a point-and-shoot camera for accidental snapshots.
Also aerial on my list: Acquiesce one of the absolute buttons (the aggregate ascendancy or the home button) to act as the shutter. I acquisition I can't abiding the camera abundantly aback I accept to advance on the awning to breeze the shutter. A concrete button would break that problem--and accomplish the phone's camera abundant easier to use one-handed. For archetype aback you're snapping a account of yourself and a acquaintance at a party, with the phone's awning adverse abroad from you, blame a concrete button is a lot easier than award and acute a basic button on the display.
Software angel stabilization would be addition abundant feature, as would bigger light-sensitivity capabilities and an LED beam (another more accepted affection on camera phones). Include the adeptness to shoot assorted frames rapid-fire, and aback the iPhone 3G S's camera could be a actual able tool.
