The iPhone's "Most Wanted"
Despite the fact that no one can even buy an iPhone yet, people are already describing what its next set of features ought to be. There's a thread at the iPhone forum that lists what they're calling "The Seven Most Wanted iPhone Widgets" (Basically, they just picked seven Dashboard widgets they'd like ported to the iPhone). I'm not as convinced. Here they are:
- iTunes Stats. Basically, this displays an exhaustive amount of trivial information regarding your iTunes library, like "Number of songs with no artist info" and "Number of playlists." I can't imagine strolling through the mall with my iPhone and suddenly needing to know how many of my songs are unrated. But that's me.
- Hangman. Yeah, OK. Games are fun.
- RSS Feeds. Call me an old stick-in-the-mud, but I can't think of a single RSS feed that I must have immediately available every second of the day. I figure I can wait the thirty minutes it may take me to get to my computer. Pass.
- Sudoku. See #2.
- Harmonic. Ok, so it *might* be fun to confirm a song's lyrics on-the-go. I said "might."
- Flappie. Um, no.
- TV Scheduler. I already have a tool that I use to monitor what's on my TV. It's called, "my TV." It works great.
There's only 1 widget I'd actually really love to see on the iPhone, and that's one that will teleport me from my backwoods, stick town to a major city that actually gets reception from Cingular/AT&T. Until then, I probably won't be getting an iPhone.
Thanks, Chris!