iPhone Pro? How about those damn push notifications first?

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iPhone Pro? How about those damn push notifications first?

Posted on 29 December 2008 by Wayne Schulz

iphone pro.jpg

Late last night Gizmodo posted a cool looking rendition of what an iPhone Pro might look like. Nobody is saying that one is soon to be announced – or ever will be announced. But it has touched off a LOT of speculation If you look on Friendfeed there’s an impressive number of comments about this story. Most people are suggesting that they’d be tempted to buy such a phone (if it ever were to be released).

Here’s some of my wants:

Push notifications
Cut/Copy/Paste
Flash media capabilities
Expandable memory
Single inbox for all mail, instant messages, text messages
Significantly improved email client for Gmail imap integration

What would be on your list?

The Dream iPhone Pro

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Wayne Schulz - who has written 2131 posts on Gear Diary.

Wayne is a diehard Blackberry user and consultant specializing in Sage MAS90 Accounting Software. He lives in Glastonbury CT with his two children. When not helping them with their homework or pushing the latest school fundraiser off on his co-workers, he is active hiking, Scuba Diving and investigating all manner of technology.

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http://intensedebate.com/people/Judie Judie Lipsett
I would like one of these; but yeah, offering up some of the as yet unavailable necessities before bringing out a "pro" version would make much more sense.
I still can't believe that there is no cut & paste. Meh.
http://intensedebate.com/people/ChrisSpera ChrisSpera
If you remember my iPhone 3G as a Business Tool series, I alluded to this in the last part of the series (http://www.geardiary.com/2008/10/01/the-iphone-3g… Look in the Recommendations section… However, in order for an iPhone Pro to really work, it would need to have the Exchange portion of the problem resolved. The OS would need an update, in other words, to incorporate some changes, as well as the removable battery and wi-fi updates Wayne mentioned.
However, I agree with the main point of this article, first things first… PUSH!
http://intensedebate.com/people/cgavula cgavula
Push isn't nearly as important to me. I can live with the current polling scheme. Exchange doesn't need to be "resolved" (it's not broken), it works as it's designed to work, but Exchange support could still be improved and taken to the next level for those that rely on advanced Exchange features.
A "pro" version with a keyboard just isn't important to me. To me the #1 change/improvement I'd like to see is the addition of cut-copy-paste. Above and beyond anything else I think that would make the biggest fundamental impact to the WHOLE iPhone userbase.
That said, since they nearly had push services then pulled them out of the beta, you'd think that would be an easy deliverable, unless there was some extremely large "gotcha" in the whole scheme that they discovered or unless AT&T panicked at the potential uptick in traffic and begged Apple to pull it.
http://intensedebate.com/people/mas90guru Wayne Schulz
Removable battery
Wi-Fi that let's me select by SSID which ones should auto connect and which should not
Faster processor
http://www.intensedebate.com/people/gorkon gorkon
This rendition would NEVER be released by Apple. A few things the photo chopper got wrong:
The keyboard…..yeah it needs one but it would never be that ugly.
Would rather see a trackball or pad instead of a D pad.
Soft buttons should be under the top of the screen. This would be a good gamer edition….not a Pro tool. Pro tools can play games too, but they should NEVER look like a game machine.
What is that big thing on the back? A Zoom Lens?? Not possible with the kayboard. There's just not enough room. What is that thing above it? Another lense?? Doesn't make sense to have 2 cams facing the same direction….put a great sensor on the front and make a version of iChat or Skype that works on it.
Things I would like to see…..
LESS lock in. The Android is wide open.
MORE DRM less tracks in iTMS.
MORE providers….bring this on to T-Mobile and Verizon and you will sell ALOT more iPhones. That is if VZW will allow you to have your own map program instead of the crippleware.
Exchange, while necessary for some, it isn't the end all be all of corporate e-mail. It's in use in ALOT of places, but there's also a fair mix of Groupwise, Lotus Notes, Sendmail and other mail servers in use out there. NOT having exchange should not be a corporate deal breaker. What would be BETTER than push exchange is…..a iPhone like BES client. Blackberry Enterprise Server is more universal than Exchange push and works with exchange, Groupwise and there are probably others but you get the idea. BES is far more for the enterprise than Exchange. Failing that, there's probably IETF changes in the works to get push e-mail as a standard on ANY MTA.
How about…a iPhone with a 120 GB or larger hard disk? Make one with a really big frigging disk and those holdouts still toting iPod Classics will jump. I LOVE flash based players, but the fact is spinnin platters in this size are still probably cheaper than 120 GB of flash.
http://digitalsinigang.blogspot.com/ egarayblas
Built-in SMS forwarding!