iPhone Wish List Update 1

Okay here come few more

1. Custom Words to Dictionary
iPhone has the feature of word assist that helps in auto correcting spellings and also suggest the word you want to enter into a text. It is a neat feature and will be great if it was possible to define custom words. I do sms and also email a lot and some shortcuts to actual words would be very helpful.

2. Save Youtube videos
Sometimes it so happens that I end up playing the same video at different times and each time I press it on my Youtube Bookmark list, iPhone gets a copy from youtube wasting precious network bandwidth and also the phone resources. Is it not possible to store it in some propreitary format on the phone and may be clear after a week or so?

My iPhone Update Wish List

There has been much talk recently about the release of 2.0 version of the iPhone software. As I mentioned in my previous blog, there appears few things that are bothering me in the current version 1.1.4 (4A102). Hopefully some of these will get fixed in 2.0 version.

1. Alarm to play a custom mp3 song
I really like the Clock application especially the alarm option. I wish there was a way to set custom Sound (currently I need to select from a predefined set of sounds) to one of the songs in my iPod application.

2. Camera soft button vs the hard button and a timer option
The camera application has a soft button to click a picture. This makes it challenging to hold the iphone still while taking a picture. Most of my pictures came out slightly blurred. I wish they make the home button as the button to click for a picture. Another alternative is to allow timer option so that I set the time and just hold the camera. Yes.. yes this is good only for still photography but still is a good option.

3. Calendar Reminder Pop-up
I use calendar a lot to put in appointments and reminders. When iPhone notifies me it shows a pop-up but has no option to acknowledge the pop-up. What happens is that when I use the slider to unlock, the pop-up is gone and I need to go to calendar application and check it out.

4. A2DP
Being in California I need to start getting used to bluetooth headset/car-kits while driving and so recently I got a Motorola T505 bluetooth car kit. It is cool.. has a FM transmitter, in-built speaker, supports bluetooth handsfree and also A2DP profiles. Since iPhone does not support A2DP, I cannot listen to my songs via the FM using T505. Wish they put this into 2.0.

5. Volume
Of course more volume for the ear piece would be great.

Bye Bye Treo

I have been using Treo's starting Treo300 till Treo700p. I have also wriitten some programs for PalmOS with Ryan. Check out movierec and soundrec for treo.

Offlate I was tired of the instabilities of palmos running on my 700p and also the UI. So I decided to get a iPhone to check it out. There was a good deal with the refurb phone so I went ahead and got me one.

As of now it looks great. I guess there are a few things that are bothering me a bit but more about them in later blogs.

Welcome

After a long time I decided to go with the trend of blogging.

Welcome to my blog.