[GG1976]

Hello everyone.

I've recently discovered that Apple website has a feedback page for the iPhone too (maybe it's been there for months but I found it for the first time only a few minutes ago).

There's an enhancement request section.
Here is what I wrote to them:

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First thing:
I think it would be great if the iPhone
had a much improved photo camera.
Each time Apple has entered a new devices market,
it has brought a never-seen-before ease of use
to those devices.
I think all photo cameras have a very complicated interface for
settings which have a lot of importance (for non-pros too):
like aperture, shutter, manual focus, switching back to auto-focus,
aperture priority, shutter priority, switching back to auto-aperture,
switching back to auto-shutter, etc.

Apple might use its multi-touch interface to easily make the iPhone
become a great photo camera too, with super-easy-to-use
on-screen slider controls for aperture and shutter and, maybe,
an on-screen wheel for manual focus.

It would become an iPod, a phone, an internet communicator,
a navigator... and also a very good photo camera... all in one.

Mobile phones had always been hard to use.
Then Apple invented the iPhone.
Now it's time Apple make us free to get rid of all our cameras.

Second thing:
when is the iPhone going support Apple Keynote
presentation format?
Wouldn't it be fantastic if Steve would reveal,
at the end of his next keynote,
that all the slides had been sent to the videoprojector
from his iPhone (with the Apple AV out adaptor)?
That would be a really great feature for iPhone pro users.

Third and fourth requests: I think a lot of people would appreciate
if the iPhone was able to take movies. And record audio too.

One more thing: please, bring this new enhanced photo camera
to the iPod touch too!
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Apple does read feedback. For example, a lot of people asked for
labels to be back to Mac OS X, and Apple brought them back.
The same thing happened for Grapher.

I really hope that they will improve iPhone's camera and will
make the iPhone able to open .keynote documents.
What do you think?

Thank you and bye.

gg1976

[Visnaut]

Some good suggestions there. Personally, I don't see Apple ever improving the camera software much beyond what it is today. In the current iPhone, you can't use manual focus or control the aperture because, well, it has no moving parts. In future hardware revisions they will certainly improve things such as the sensor resolution, lens, and possibly add a flash. But asking Apple for such fine-grained features is sort of like asking them to put a removable battery into the iPhone. It won't happen because it goes against their ethos of simplicity. The most they might do is auto-focus and macro modes, and maybe a low-light mode.

Keynote presentations: brilliant. The iPhone's hardware seems like it could handle a lot of the built-in transitions too. I also imagine that a mobile Keynote app would be something they could try to sell to all users, sort of like they sold the extra apps to iPod touch users. But definitely a nice feature idea.

Camera on the iPod touch: good idea also. I have several friends who, for varying reasons, don't want an iPhone, but would buy the touch if it only had a camera. It would make it a much more attractive PMP. Many people on these boards will decry it as positioning the iPod touch far too close to the iPhone, but they were wrong when they said Apple would never release a touch-screen iPod, and they were wrong when they said Apple wouldn't/shouldn't add Mail/Maps/Weather to the iPod touch.

[rozwado1]

How about having them focus on the basics, like password keychains and copy/paste? I think its funny you wrote your feedback like a personal email...

[justjesper]

The feedback link has been there from day 1.

And I did post cut and paste, video Rec. search email and other stuff.

They don't care what you write there. it is the first official Black hole

[hyteckit]

I ask for playback of WAV files when the iPhone was initially release.

Well, the iPhone plays WAV files now, so I guess Apple does listen.

[justjesper]

You lucky bastard :-)
well could you do me a favor ?

Post my list : it might be that you have some sort of HOT link to them

Copy/cut/paste
Search contacts
Search mail
MMS
Video recording
Flash player for Safari, (should be easy to add. )
delete all in trash folder (should be easy to add. )
Bluetooth to be used for more then headset (should be easy to add. )

[hyteckit]

I think it'll work better if you put it in context as to why you want it and what it might be good for productivity-wise.

I ask for WAV file playback because all my voice mail gets sent to me in WAV format as an attachment through email. Lots of voice mail services use the WAV file format.

[imitchellg5]

I wouldn't be surprised if most of your suggestions make it in eventually. However, the iPhone isn't designed to be a particularly great camera phone. The quality right now isn't half bad, but as far as having the feature set of a full point and shoot, that's doubtful.