iPhone 3.0 software coming soon

Stephen Withers
Friday, 13 March 2009 03:09

Your IT - Mobility

Given that an unofficial movie recording application such as Cycorder (only usable after jailbreaking your iPhone) can achieve up to 15fps, it's hard to see why Apple's engineers can't at least match that capability. And if hardware improvements to the 2009 iPhone mean better results, that's fine.

Flash is another feature that many iPhone users would like to see. We've known since January that Adobe and Apple are finally collaborating on the project, but it could be months before it arrives.

One possibility is that Flash will require a future iPhone with more processing power. Rumour has it that the forthcoming iPhone will have a speedier CPU, so that shouldn't be a problem for much longer.

Flash would also be an attractive feature of the as yet hypothetical touch-screen netbook running iPhone-based software that some people expect Apple to introduce.

Apple would win some brownie points from its customers (though perhaps not from its carrier partners) if it improved the iPhone's Bluetooth capabilities.

In particular, the ability to transfer files and other items such as contacts is commonplace on Bluetooth-enabled phones. So why not on the iPhone?

Similarly, using a mobile phone as a modem (via Bluetooth or USB) is standard practice for many people who are such light users that they can't justify the cost of a USB wireless modem and a separate data account.

The iPhone could easily do this, but the stumbling block seems to be the possibility of people abusing the 'all you can eat' data plans offered by AT&T.

What would you like to see in iPhone 3.0? Leave your suggestions in a comment, then check back next week to see whether Apple delivered on iTWire readers' wish list.