10 things to improve in future iPhones

As many already know, I’ma big fan of the iPhone since its first version, because in my opinion was one of the most revolutionary devices in recent times. It is true that perhaps there are others with better technical specifications, but to date I have not tested or one that has the elegance of the implementation of which has the Apple iPhone. And now that the App Store has flourished, its value has increased exponentially, leaving behind much of the competition.

However, there is room for improvement, and that is what this article today.

Once we start (in no particular order):

1. Add a second camera in front of the iPhone and include iChat, so we can do video conferencing. And allow others to access this feature (ie, Skype, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, etc).
2. Allow to synchronize our data with the PC / Laptop / Netbook by WiFi. Currently this can only be done via USB. It is true that if you have the paid service that MobileMe can synchronize up by WiFi or 3G, but you have to pay and not everything is synchronized (eg videos).
3. So you can print wirelessly by WiFi or Bluetooth natively. It is now possible to download applications from the App Store (Shop Applications) printing to specific models (like HP), but I mean something more generic, and is supported by the greats of the industry (HP, Canon, Epson , Samsung, etc).
4. Create a Bluetooth standard and / or the USB connector for controls on video games. This is something that a market exists today, since not all games are suited to play effectively with it multi-touch screen of iPhone. The idea is that you can buy an ultra-thin (and portable) which communicates with the iPhone and containing physical buttons.
5. A mini-HDMI connector to connect the iPhone to a high definition screen and see photos, videos, video games, and even the song list. Remember that HDMI also transmits audio.
6. Able to record video at a minimum resolution of 720p (and 1080p would be even better). The graphics chip is known to 3GS iPhone can do, but for some reason Apple only supports VGA quality (640 x 480) instead of 1280 x 720. Perhaps because of space issues in the flash memory of the iPhone …
7. A standard for bidirectional communication via Bluetooth with cars, so as to avoid a thousand ways that exist today to connect an iPhone to the car. In this way it would be possible to see the names of the songs on the radio of the car, and even control the iPod from the iPhone’s auto guide and use the functionality of talking on cell phone hands-free mode. It would be great to even use the mini-HDMI connector I suggest in Section 6 to see the photos and videos of the iPhone screen LCD in the car (great for kids), or even playing video games with a Bluetooth control as suggested in Section 4.
8. To allow a direct transfer between the iPhone and all sorts of content (music, photos, videos, contacts, calendar, notes, web pages, etc). Apple will not want to allow this because no one wants to transfer songs (and videos) purchased by iTunes, for free to other people, but at least let those we transfer songs and videos that we climbed to the iPhone.
9. Although 2 years ago I would have liked the iPhone’s Safari browser would support Flash today think otherwise. Better to cope with HTML 5 and the new open standards that do the same thing as Flash and in a manner compatible with other browsers, and more lightweight and compatible with the Web. One reason was that I wanted to before Flash video (like YouTube), but now YouTube is encoding their videos directly to MPEG-4, which is much more efficient to play directly from a container Flash.
10. Greater freedom in the App Store. This is something that many will complain (and the main reason to give a good look at Google Android) since Apple has an iron hand in the process of accepting applications to its App Store. It has all kinds of restrictions, from an inability to create applications that compete against those that come installed on the iPhone by default (such as an alternative to Safari or iTunes) to applications that go against the interests of companies phone (eg to avoid that Skype works on 3G, and only do it for WiFi) and avoid applications that load other applications (such as emulators of classic video games), and a host of other restrictions.

And you suggest that further improvements?

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