(Brian Tiemann had the same thought.)Where's the feature to let the home screen's many pages wrap around from one side to the other? I have seven pages with icons (none full I use the pages to hold different types of apps) and it bugs me to have to flip pages six times to get from 1 to 7 or vice versa.Where's the feature to let me generate extended Unicode characters and accents? I assume non-English versions of the iPhone make this easy. This feature would be a great way around the iPhone's limited local music and video storage.
It can't play music or videos shared from a Mac on the local network. I think the slight increase in overhead would usually be worth it.Music and videoThe iPod application is missing a valuable feature found in the desktop iTunes application. Sure, updating all these icons would give the iPhone some extra work to do-so Apple should provide a "Live icon updates?" setting and have some rules about how often the updates should happen. The Weather app always shows sunny and 73 degrees. So, where's the feature? Why don't all of Apple's apps do this sort of thing where appropriate? The Clock app icon always shows 10:15. And even then, the event can't be edited on the iPhone-not at all, not even to change the times.The Calendar app does something very nice: the icon on the iPhone's home screen shows the current day and date. I can go look at the message on my Mac and add the event to my calendar there, and eventually the event shows up on my iPhone, but that's not so good when I'm traveling. Invitations received by the iPhone's Mail app aren't understood by the phone. I hate having to scroll the Day display just to show two events.The Calendar app doesn't handle multiple-user event scheduling very well. Display the notes, and shrink the event if that helps to keep the whole day on the screen. Stretch the lines apart so that every event gets the space it needs! Jeez, this isn't rocket science.Similarly, a long event has plenty of room to display additional information, such as the notes associated with the event-but instead, the event ends up with two lines of text and a bunch of wasted blank space.
For a shorter event-one scheduled for 30 minutes, say-the two lines get squeezed into one line in an attempt to maintain the orderly appearance of the schedule.But come on, Apple! The lines on a sheet of paper are fixed. Displaying these two lines takes up about one hour of the day. In the daily view, most events get two lines of text: the title and location.
Apple has developed many ways to select dates and times for other systems and applications this is by far the worst.The Calendar app does something else that's kind of silly. The minutes wheel is so easy to spin that in going from :00 to :30, I commonly spin right past :30 and back to :00. To select the date and time for an alarm, you spin three wheels apparently stolen from the game show The Price Is Right.
The Calendar app also has the worst user-interface design in the whole iPhone, I think.
A 'where's the feature?' report: iPhone 3G