As Apple attempts to meet its latest objective of selling 45 million units of its newest flagship product by the end of 2009 (as a point of comparison, incidentally, last year Apple sold 50 million units of its beloved iPod) everyone and their mother seems to be composing their own wish list of the features they'd like to see in next generation iPhones.
One of the most popular items on these iPhone wish lists, 3G network access, looks poised to come true. But what about the rest of the capabilities iPhone users past, present, and future are wishing for?
There's no telling which of these fantasies Apple will make a reality, but in the interest of keeping hope alive (and keeping score), we've compiled the most popular items on everyone's iPhone want-list below.
- lower price -will Apple ever release lower-priced, scaled-down versions of the iPhone for less than $400 a piece?
- improved battery - including the ability for users to easily replace worn out batteries with fresh, new ones
- better digital camera (including a dedicated shutter button) - it's still one of the biggest iPhone shockers that this preeminent multimedia smartphone has such a subpar built-in digital camera
- more storage - at least 32 GB on-board with an expandable option via an SD or miniSD card slot, please
- USB slot - giving the iPhone the capability of fulfilling its potential to once-and-for-all become the central hub for a bevy of other powerful peripherals
- voice features - both voice recording and chat capabilities
- GPS - Sorry Apple, but GoogleMaps simply isn't enough
- MMS messaging - take a lesson from the BlackBerry, will ya?
- Global shuffle - enabling users of the built-in iPod to shuffle their entire music library and not just individual playlists
- Safari "page down" button - making scrolling as easy as it should be (not to mention as easy as it already is on most other, competing, mobile web browsers)
- Flash support - speaking of the Safari browser, the glaring absence of Flash support severely limits what content can and can't be viewed
- Cross-application copy-and-paste - such as the ability to copy an address from your contacts and insert it into the Google Maps app search field
- Customizable home screen - once you plunk down that $400, it should be your iPhone after all, not Apple's, shouldn't it?
- Bluetooth headset support - hello?
- better email- including the ability to sync up your wireless address book with your iCal scheduler as well as the ability to delete multiple emails at once
- fixed screenshot program - one of the buggiest apps in the iPhone repertoire
- better Notes - one of the ugliest and least user-friendly apps of the bunch
- tighter grip - get a grip, iPhone! Forget about dropped calls, right now it's way too easy to drop the whole iPhone, with its shoddy rubber strip surrounding it; it would be really nice to have a casing as substantial as its contents
Gene Munster, a Piper Jaffray analyst, seems to be the catalyst for all this pie-in-the-sky pipe-dreaming, having been the first to predict this 45 million sales figure back in June of 2007, even before Steve Jobs took up the gauntlet.
Bound to help Apple reach that record number of iPhone sales is the planned progressive release of iPhones into several international markets, such as the UK, Germany, Austria, Ireland, Canada, Mexico, Italy, Japan, Australia, Spain, and - the biggest piece of the pie of all - China.
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