What iPhone SDK applications do you want?

Posted by bluemeal
22 February 2008 @ 3pm

I’d love to see camera controls added to the iphone that would make it more like a standard digital cam.
Features like zoom IN/OUT, F-stop control, ability to shot in low light and night time conditions. And, if Apple is listening… burn and dodge controls would be a nice addition to iPhoto editing.

Posted by bluemeal
22 February 2008 @ 3pm

Ohhh… and with less gadgets is more in mind maybe someone can figure out a way to eliminate my cars bulky smart key and garage door opener and get it all into the iphone.

Posted by bluemeal
22 February 2008 @ 3pm

Bigger yet… write a program to allows the iphone to become a modified version of iTV.

Posted by bluemeal
22 February 2008 @ 3pm

Also, real GPS please!!!

Posted by bluemeal
22 February 2008 @ 3pm

Living in Miami and dealing with hurricane associated cell phone outages it would be nice if we could have program that could convert the iphone into a land line phone so that the phone, email and internet could be accessed.

Posted by versiontracker.4.ccj
22 February 2008 @ 3pm

The ability to play a music track by speaking its name. Like voicedialing for iPod tracks. Would be great in the car, or on the ski slopes.

Posted by versiontracker.4.ccj
22 February 2008 @ 3pm

And… the ability to skip to the next/previous track using a voice command.

Posted by k9spen
22 February 2008 @ 3pm

GPS–hopefully as an attachment so the speaker will be louder.
Support for Bluetooth Keyboard
SlingPlayer would rock
Voice dialing
Cut and Paste
VOIP……….

Posted by James132465
22 February 2008 @ 3pm

Flash!, Video capture, instant messaging… The list goes on lol

Posted by capitolfax
22 February 2008 @ 5pm

Copy and paste. Absolutely essential for bloggers and totally mind-boggling that it wasn’t included by Mac to begin with.

Posted by archer4
22 February 2008 @ 5pm

- COPY/PASTE
- CALL FILTERING/BLACKLISTING
- VIDEO CAPTURE
- IM
- COPY/PASTE
- COPY/PASTE
- COPY/PASTE
- COPY/PASTE
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Posted by kingsley.zissou
22 February 2008 @ 5pm

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- TO DO APP which SYNCs with my ToDos
- increation of NOTES and sync

Posted by climbbike1
22 February 2008 @ 6pm

I’d love to see an application that allows text, voice mail, and email reminders like PhoneButler or Phone Alarm for the other platforms. I use my phone as a page but when I don’t hear the first text mssg beep, I’m out of luck. My old BlackJack sucked but at least it did reminders so I would never miss a page.

Posted by PeachesNYC
22 February 2008 @ 6pm

vnc. The current one for jailbroken iPhones works really well.
–Remote access to your desktop iTunes. Something like dottunes, but more elegant, with playlists, etc.
–quicktime streaming for playing radio stations (and video). iRadio and MobileScobler are good starts, but this should be built in to the iPhone. This would totally crush satellite radio.
–any video capture, however rudimentary.
–video chat
And so much more.

Posted by rok.infomail
22 February 2008 @ 7pm

-VOIP!!!
-802.1x COMPATIBLE, many people are looking forward to using the WiFi on campuses and universitys!!!!

Posted by yaz2
22 February 2008 @ 7pm

Most important function >> Send/recieve files using bluetooth. If I get that I will constantly dance around my house for a week!

Posted by Peter - Thailand
22 February 2008 @ 8pm

An iPhone port of the GNU application XTide for graphically showing tide movements,levels and times around the world.

Posted by mrp19285
22 February 2008 @ 8pm

send/receive MMS

Copy Paste

tethering with iphone cable

GPS

Posted by pdarcy
22 February 2008 @ 8pm

My “wish list” has been articulated in other people’s blogs, but for emphasis let me reiterate:
- A “search” function in contacts, notes, and a desired tasks function.
- “Categories” or sub-folders in contacts for Windows Outlook users. Fifteen to twenty categories should suffice.
- A “task” list connected to the calendar and ability to assign priority levels.
- Ability to clear all emails with one tap rather than each email.
- Ability to clear the trash can with one tap rather than individual items.

I am not happy with the display of the contact name in the selection list. In some cases it is necessary to go to the surname and then open the whole record to see if it is the individual or company I want. I would like to see any combination of name, company, or title.

All the above have been around since the introduction of the Palm Treo. Apple has taken a step backwards it seems. One more time Jobs is allowing substance to follow form.

Posted by me262
22 February 2008 @ 10pm

To Dos
Syncing Notes
Password keeper
Voice Dial
Global Search
Video capture

Posted by daniel4510_dotmac
23 February 2008 @ 12am

Stop me if I’m wrong, but aren’t the features described above features that Apple itself should include, SDK or not? These aren’t applications you’re all describing, but extra capabilities of the iPhone itself.

Posted by nilsen.steve
23 February 2008 @ 3am

Only one thing is needed :

A iPhone port of KISMET!

Posted by mjstarks
23 February 2008 @ 7am

OmniFocus, I must have me to do’s!

Posted by epetrack1
23 February 2008 @ 7am

Start with the missing basics: 1) Ability to sync To Dos and Notes. Would then like to see a more robust PIM, like Datebk5; 2) Copy/Paste.

Posted by taisab
23 February 2008 @ 7am

iChat iChat iChat!!!

Posted by byronchurch
23 February 2008 @ 8am

Please… a simple Search program where I can type a couple of letters or numbers and find stuff .. And of corse : CUT&PASTE..Oh and I sure miss DateBk .. Hey Pimlico !

Posted by Anita Murray
23 February 2008 @ 11am

COPY and PASTE
TO DO’s that sync
NOTES that sync
Pleeeeeeeze

Posted by dspiers
23 February 2008 @ 12pm

Spotlight, Search!

Ever seen a PDA without search? It is to sad to be true.

Posted by feb21feb21
23 February 2008 @ 12pm

Personafile reports that the SDK is going to be delayed, http://www.personafile.com/products

Posted by consumed1
23 February 2008 @ 1pm

It would be great to see a program where you can speak into the phone and it transfers it into text for notes, sms, email, etc.

Posted by ileandromp
23 February 2008 @ 2pm

MM.. MSN LIVE, COPY/PASTE, i dont know why but this phone doesnt have reply or forward SMS..

And it will be nice if the phone when your listening to music and somebody calls you, like my house phone, saids who’s calling. i dont know, it will be cool.. XD.. cause not all the time you can take out your phone from your pocket cause somebody will take your phone

Posted by MarkDavidMcCoskey
23 February 2008 @ 4pm

I would like to see my Windows XP recognize my iPhone as an external drive, and then be able to drag and drop files, songs, ringtones, pictures, etc., instead of using iTunes which doesn’t like what I want it to do.

Posted by Sds1522
24 February 2008 @ 7am

MMS, Video Capturing, Instant messenger,GPS, oh so many lol

Posted by mrp19285
24 February 2008 @ 11am

Disk Mode

Posted by dmarcallan
24 February 2008 @ 12pm

I agree with MarkDavidMcCoskey we need to be able to use it as external hard drive. But one cool app I think would be a Drwing app taking advantage of the touch screen and you could zoom in to draw in details and maybe even have a paint function, and the ability to attatch these drawings to e-mail or sms would be awesome.

Posted by kiran.vaka
24 February 2008 @ 4pm

1. 3D Volume Rendering and Visualization of medical datasets: iPhone will be a device which, at the moment’s notice (a few clicks), will be able to render and provide real-time interactivity for viewing, diagnosing patient ct, xray, biopsy scan results for doctors on the go. I suggest porting the the present Osirix software to the iPhone and iPod. The internal graphics hardware should allow fast 3D texturing capability through OpenGL, Quartz.

2. Language Transliterator: A real-time language transliterator which converts my english text input into equivalent Unicode characters of the language specified. Using this I can type and send emails, contact names and other information in any language like Japanese, Indic (ex. Telugu), Hebrew etc.

3. Native CRM applications: For salespeople on the field, to access customer information, use the excellent native applications provided by Apple (calendar, alarms, email) for their benefit.

- Kiran Vaka

Posted by hbelkins
24 February 2008 @ 8pm

Right now the iPhone is nice, but not killer. To become something I can really use, it needs:

1.) IM client, especially Yahoo and AOL/AIM.

2) Support for Windows streaming audio from radio station Web sites. I work in radio hell and can’t pick up my favorite AM stations over the air, and streaming audio is not allowed on my work network. Being able to surf via Safari to the streams of my favorite stations and listen on the iPhone would make it truly a device that meets all my mobile communications needs.

3.) Modem scripts so I can tether to my MacBook (or Windows laptop) and dial into AT&T/Cingular via connection by cable or Bluetooth and use the iPhone’s EDGE service to connect my laptop to the Internet. I can currently do this with a Motorola cell phone and my MEdiaNet service, using some third-party modem drivers installed on my MacBook.

Posted by hbelkins
24 February 2008 @ 8pm

Forgot to add … filtering abilities in Mail so all the spam that’s so nicely filtered by my ISP (and goes to a spam folder when I run Eudora) doesn’t show up in the middle of my real mail, and I have to wade through dozens of spam messages everytime I download mail from the server on the iPhone.

Posted by libertyforall1776
24 February 2008 @ 11pm

I would like to be able to show video out of any and ALL application via the video out cable, more push-email connectivity, full USB Hard Drive, Keyboard, Printer support, as well as full Bluetooth profiles for A2DP, Keyboard, Printers, etc.

Syncing To-Dos, Notes, and Exchange would be a big help for businesses, as well as viewing .ppt files.

There are many others, but this would be a good start…

Posted by peter-jlist
25 February 2008 @ 7pm

I love the emulation games on the thing, but no game with that screen will ever really be good. So I want some smart person to make a USB adapter that plugs into the bottom and lets a small USB gamepad be used to play Mame and NES games.

I really want flash video sites to just work, too.

Posted by rbp21
28 February 2008 @ 9am

Video playlists; cut and paste; ability to print to a bluetooth or wireless printer directly from the iPhone; Flash video; 3G wireless; ability to use any MP3/MP4 as a ringtone; video capture. Those would make me a very happy boy. By the way, Meebo works fine for me as an instant messaging app.