Comments on: Not so minor changes coming to next iPhone v2.0 – Bonjour, full-screen browsing, vector graphics, locally stored web-apps, PowerPoint, mass email delete, and possibly search

By: Will Park

Will Park — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:57:17 +0000

Cut/paste is definitely something that needs to be addressed, but the question is how Apple is going to implement the functionality without compromising the UI’s intuitive nature.

As far as the iPhone being revolutionary, I agree that all other smartphones can update their OS (ROM) through firmware flashing – I mention that in my original text. However, to say it again, the revolutionary part is in how the OS updates are easily delivered and installed. Not only does the iPhone get OS updates more frequently than any other platform, but the integration with the mobile platform (ie. iTunes, Mac OS ) that’s used to at once sync the iPhone, restore the iPhone, and manage settings on the iPhone can also be used to download and deliver OS updates is significant. You get full functionality in an intuitive and integrated platform.

But you’re right, Raidium, the iPhone’s ability to update its firmware does not, in and of itself, constitute any sort of revolutionary implementation. It’s all about the bigger picture here.

By: Raidium

Raidium — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:26:28 +0000

I understand that the OS of the iPhone can update stuff but so can all other OSs out there! You cant consider one OSs ability to update revolutionary over they others. So it can add features? Big deal so can all others. Just saying…

By: Arthur

Arthur — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:11:52 +0000

A2DP…? Is there any talk of it in the next iPhone OS? After all,
of all the phones out there the iPhone, (big brother to the iPod !)
is the one you’d expect to allow you to listen to tunes via your
wireless bluetooth stereo headphones isn’t it. Do I have to fork over
another $50.00 bucks for the icombi adaptor? How about a firmware
flash?

Now…why isn’t anyone asking about “cut” and “paste” capabilities?
HELLO?!! What’s the word on putting some o that in the next iPhone OS?

By: Aaron W.

Aaron W. — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:27:27 +0000

Are you joking Playerkill? you consider WinMo 5 to 6 an update comparable to adding whole new USEABLE features? The iphone will actually DO something with firmware. Thats why its revolutionary. WIn6 was a downgrade on my Blackjack, and honestly, i think they just changed the loading screen and icons a bit. I dont even own an Iphone, and i have ALL windows equipment, but do you really think that some of the other examples you listed are even comparable in terms of what firmware updates are used for on the devices they apply to? Surly Win6 added word doc capabilites and the ability to navigate for the right price. But the blackjack crashed everytime i attempted to use those features. And how about altering the phone, yeah plenty of other phones can be hacked and modded, but on the same scale as the Iphone? regardless of how many other phones have these features, this particular phone was designed to be different.

By: Chris P

Chris P — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:33:43 +0000

Will – My comments come across a little harsh, it wasnt intended to be quite so ‘acidic’!

By: News reader

News reader — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:55:24 +0000

I don’t think that web-apps will have the same capabilities as real ones.

By: PlayerKill

PlayerKill — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:39:00 +0000

I have to agree with Chris there, Will.

“Remember, the iPhone is revolutionary in the way the OS can be updated and features can be added with a simple firmware update through iTunes.”

That really ignores a bunch of smartphones out there… Yeah, you might not be able to update S60 v3 from FP1 to FP2, but there is definitely S60 OS update. Also, many WinMo 5 phones can be updated to WinMo 6.

By: Chris P

Chris P — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:55:22 +0000

Will – how much of a hard on do you have for the iphone and all things apple!? What you have said isnt ‘revolutionary’, at any rate have you considered the way other manufacturers namley Nokia update their firmware? have you considered the reason apple have had to update the iphone so much is because of its missing features. At any rate I am not fussed about this issue, I just had to pick you up on your ridiculous comments.

By: stelt

stelt — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:41:54 +0000

/me wants an iPhone to show of his SVG links

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:49:07 +0000

Impressive! 2 versions in and iPhone will still be 5 years behind the features of so many other phones on the market.

By: Will Park

Will Park — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:46:23 +0000

Of course the iPhone isn’t the first device to have firmware upgrades. Every single handset I’ve ever owned (and that’s a list more numerous than years I’ve been alive) has had firmware updates. To say or believe otherwise is indeed ridiculous.

But, with the iPhone firmware updates are a simple matter of a couple OS tweaks, pushed through the most integrated distribution platform (which is almost a fact, rather than an opinion) available for smartphones, and crunched out more numerously and faster than most (any) other OS.

Sorry, George, I haven’t seen any information about landscape keyboard. I’ve barely gone through the SDK, and I have to admit that I don’t understand all of it, so I may or may not find references to such features in time. Be sure to stay tuned.

By: George Musser

George Musser — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:30:11 +0000

Do you see any hints of a landscape keyboard in SMS? As a heavy text user, I can’t get a iPhone until this is added.
George

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:23:10 +0000

Are you implying the iphone was the first to have firmware upgrades!? Ridiculous Will, ridiculous!