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Fuzzy Logic The 3G iPhone cometh... soon?
Fuzzy Logic The 3G iPhone cometh... soon? | The 3G iPhone cometh... soon? |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Sunday, 06 April 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 4 Well, we’re still waiting for the ability to synchronise notes taken on the iPhone to a computer. This is such an easy thing for Apple to include, especially given all the other things that iTunes can synchronise to and from the iPhone, that hopefully it will be delivered. Featured Whitepaper
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Yes, I’m sure that some third party software developer will make this happen, but it shouldn’t be something we need to rely on a third party developer for... it should be a standard part of the operating system. Then we need a 3G iPhone to have a better chip inside, one that is able to handle multitasking. It’s a bit weird that the world’s sexiest cellphone will be unable to handle multitasking other than that which Apple itself already provides. Many people have spoken about the iPhone SDK’s banning of apps running in the background. Personally it’s one of the things that always annoyed me about Palm devices – who’d have thought that a decade or more later, the iPhone would have the same limitation? Some kind of ‘haptic’ feedback would be cool, too. This means you get a slight vibration to alert you to the fact you’ve successfully pushed a button. Different vibration patterns could let you know that you’ve pressed the right – or wrong – onscreen virtual button. All of these features probably mean we need a much stronger battery. Given Apple clearly thinks removable batteries are a bad idea (even though they exist on all MacBook portables other than the MacBook Air), some of these features will likely not make it simply because they’ll chew up too much battery power. It’s a shame that the simple act of inserting a new, fully charged battery is something that Apple won’t consider, thus limiting the capabilities of any 3G iPhone, while presumably getting ready to offer them next year with whatever new iPhone is due in 2009, complete with whatever stronger, more powerful battery is available by then, too. So, what’s my ‘one more thing’ that I think a 3G iPhone should deliver, something that even a 2G iPhone should be capable of? Please read onto page 4. |
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