Mobility Today seems to have the scoop on a list of features that will be fixed or added when the iPhone receives its first firmware upgrade. When that upgrade will show up is anyone’s guess. The list is quite extensive, but the tipster was really excited about a file browser:
So anyway a FULL file browser is coming so you can browse just like windows mobile explorer only in the cool way leopard’s file browser is
The rest of the list seems fairly obvious with the addition of features like iChat, ringtones and Flash. Is this list accurate? It could be, but with all rumors, we’ll have to twiddle our thumbs until it shows up. Read on for the full list.
* There will be a build in file browser like the new finder in leopard for sorting through files
* There will be a disk mode
* The reason that there currently isn’t a file browser + way to save files from web is because there isn’t a file browser on the phone, and they wanted to release the same one that’s gonna be in the upcoming leopard OS, complete with coverflow.
* There will even be a special version of “iWork” so you can show your keynote presentations
* So anyway a FULL file browser is coming so you can browse just like windows mobile explorer only in the cool way leopard’s file browser is
* Full spotlight like search is coming too
* Widescreen keyboard support will be coming in every app, not just safari
* Copy & Paste, Select Text is coming too (clipboard)
* Also mail will see an upgrade so you can add accounts without doing so through itunes.
* Most of the delays in this is because iTunes is the App Windows & Mac users are familar with for iTunes, so Apple didn’t want to do a bad interface that had a file browser hacked into iTunes.
* When Leopard FINAL release comes out, plugging in the iPhone will pop open a special window in the finder that has areas for dragging all your files like a file explorer only more advanced and designed specifically for the iPhone, it will make sure that it works so iTunes knows how much space is for data, and how much is for “iTunes” stuff.
* Apple will be putting iChat on the phone, very, very soon, before Leopard.
* Real Applications are coming to the phone shortly.
* These are all updates that will be software based for the iPhone you already have, so give it a little bit of time. In the meantime enjoy the features it already has.
* Oh and also there will be Photo Sharing, just like in iPhoto how you can check an option to let other people on the network view your photos.
* He said .Mac account would eventually sync your accounts to the .Mac server as well from the phone, and so forth.
* Simplified File sharing when on WIFI networks through bonjour (auto ip discovery) is coming, so once the file system software is up, your buddy in the same room will be able to navigate to his file browser > Network, and grab a file off your phone that you are sharing.
* Ringtones will be coming very, very soon.
* The Camera Software will get upgraded soon to have stabilization (software based)
* Flash is coming eventually, it’s just a matter of handling it in a way so when i page has dozens of flash apps running at the same time the page doesn’t slow to a crawl, so they have to take the Adobe flash and make some customizations, including for security.
* Anyway, enjoy the great mobile phone for now, and look forward to all the great stuff coming really, really soon. I can’t WAIT for the new file browser so I can store stuff on this device!!Just remember Windows Mobile has been out or a long time, even everytime a new WM phone comes out all the apps that are supposed to work, have to be tweaked or don’t fit on the screen or some bullcrap, so realize this is just Apple’s very first OS release for mobile Phone. Apple has lots of treats instore for all of you
Dont worry about posting this also…
Tipster tell us iPhone firmware upgrade list.. [Mobility Today]
“the internets made me a stupid.” This is ass. “Also mail will see an upgrade so you can add accounts without doing so through itunes.” um, ok. this is already here.
Of course, they should’ve actually released the phone feature complete…
Instead of relying on their “anonymous tipster” they could have read the exact same list on HoFo ten days ago, where it was sourced as coming from “a friend who works at Apple.” Given the paranoia toward leaks in Cupertino, give it approximately as much credence as you would give any such detailed leak.
Seems more likely to be a forum poster presenting the obvious as a way to pump up his own cred. This is, of course, what the iPhone should have been in the first place.
What we need is MMS. Basic function of my $20 phone missing from my $600 phone.
I guess someone at MT is a big fat liar.
Excuse me but I am not a liar! WTF Fred maybe if you followed my site you would know I dont friggin lie!
We received this from an ANONYMOUS email tipster.. NOT HOFO!!! HOW the heck could I read EVERY FRIGGIN site to see if it was posted somewhere else?
YOU CANT!
Complaints, complaints that’s all I ever hear and yet MS releases OS’s with no support and with nothing working then comes back with a service packs and hot fixes and add-ons.. Iphone came with everything installed and it all works.. Wow and now you’re complaining that it shoulda coulda had something else. If you don’t like the Iphone go and get a Windows Mobile device and see what is missing.. I think this list is cool and looking forward to all of the options that it offers, but without them the phone is still way better than and Mobile Windows or Palm device.
Jeez, Ciccone, don’t get your panties in a bunch. I didn’t call you a liar (Peter Ha did). I just meant that this list has been making the rounds, and I don’t believe a word of it. I suspect your anonymous tipster (who I don’t doubt exists) is either (a) the same person who made the post at HoFo or (b) someone who read it there. In either case, upon being ridiculed in that post as being full of donkey feces, they sent it on to you to get it more play. Which it did. You’re not a liar. The tipster probably is, but you’re not.
And I stand by my assertion that everything on the list should have been included in the first place. Apple’s the one that called the thing “revolutionary.” That means it should do a bunch of stuff other devices don’t do, not just that it does some of the stuff other things do in a flashy new way. When the revolution is this anticlimactic, expect complaints. It’s like following the Declaration of Independence with giving King George a new hat.
Yeah the phone has a few things missing, yeah the “web expirience” could be faster and flash would be nice. But really, and this one gets to me every time, mms? Wtf?! You guys have a full rich content email, and you guys are crying over mms? What are you guys ? Stuck in 2003? Come on… You can still send pics to other phones using the email (c’mon guys google it) and you can recieve anything through your email. So what are you guys crying about? A button to make things that much easier for you? How about a button you can press and the phone would scratch your asses for you guys? Get real guys. Mms was simply created so cheap phones could send cheap pics. If that’s what you guys want than just stick to your “pantechs”
An ass scratcher would be nice…
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