大概2周前，TUAW(The Unofficial Apple Weblog)做了份调查，让读者们说说他们希望iPhone 4.0有哪些改进和新功能，结果出来了。
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Dear Apple,
While it’s clear the iPhone is the best smartphone on the market right now, you have a lot of competition creeping up. We want to help you blow them out of the water with the iPhone OS 4.0. Here are our suggestions:
1. The lock screen needs to change.
90% of us want a new lock screen. We think the current screen that only shows the date and time, and only the most recent missed call or SMS, is not particularly helpful. If you get a text message, then a calendar alert, and then a push notification, the only one you see is the push notification message. Being able to swipe through them or have a table list would be far more useful. But even then, we still have to enter our four-digit unlock code to see if we’ve received any new emails. From the new lock screen we want to see all the calls we’ve missed and the number of new emails and texts we have. We want to see which apps have sent us push notifications, and what appointments are coming up. We want a brief overview of all the new data we’ve received to be presented to us before we have to enter our unlock code.
Let’s extend the features of that new lock screen to …
2. A new home screen. The iPhone is the smartest phone on the market. Make it smarter. Introduce a location-aware home screen.
Over 90% of us also want a new home screen – and we want it location aware. Let’s say we live in London, but travel to continental Europe many times a month. We’d love to turn on our iPhones in the country we just landed in and see the local weather, currency, transit maps, and news displayed right on our home screens. Not only would it save us time and money, it would save something just as valuable to an iPhone owner – battery life. If all these things were displayed on the home screen the first time you turn on your phone, you wouldn’t have to open five different applications to get what you want.
Imagine a ‘Genius Location’ feature as well: the iPhone would show you (through an app like Yelp – or a new Apple-branded app) what restaurants or businesses are around based on your ‘likes’ in your home town. We know you were granted a ‘Transitional Data Sets‘ patent for a location-based home screen back in February 2008 – let’s hope this sees the light of day in iPhone OS 4.0.
3. That new home screen? Let us access it by vertically swiping.
Imagine this: no matter what home screen page you’re on, if you swipe up you are presented with a ‘feeds screen’ that works much like an RSS page. This feeds screen could be set based on in-app preferences so we could fully customize it. Ours might show our latest Facebook posts, last five emails received, our To Do notes, our Mint.com balance, missed calls, text messages, and upcoming iCal events. The guys at teehan+lax have a pretty cool mock-up of this feeds screen, but the killer feature would be how you could access it from any app page – by vertically swiping.
4. Overhaul app navigation.
85% of us think it takes too long to swipe through all our pages of apps. Even though iTunes 9 made a step in the right direction by allowing the user to organize apps and home screen pages visually, there has got to be a better way. Swiping through ten screens to get to the last apps page is tedious.
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could press the home button and see all the home pages on one screen? The guys at Ocean Observations think so. Check out this concept video of what this feature would look like (their ‘Cover Flow Multitasking‘ concept is quite cool as well). Don’t want to do it their way? Give us stacks, give us folders, give us App Store-like category views. Just give us something that makes it easier to get around our deluge of apps.
5. 85% of us want multitasking and 3rd party background apps (but not at the cost of battery life).
There’s not much more to say on this matter, but Palm does it, and if you can find a way around their battery drain, we want it!
6. Almost 80% of us want Flash, even if it’s a bad idea.
No, not camera flash (we do, but that’s for the next letter). We want Adobe’s Flash Player, though Flash on the Mac is a giant performance and stability headache. Get your heads together with Adobe and make it happen (and fix the Mac version while you’re about it, please).
7. We love that you introduced landscape mode across virtually all apps in iPhone OS 3.0, but 70% of us want the ability to selectively turn it off.
Give us a setting to switch off the automatic “turn to landscape mode” when the device is turning. Why? When we lay in bed on our side we can’t read our mail. The app is always turning and that’s really annoying. A system-wide ‘ignore orientation’ switch would be a good start; app-by-app options would be better.
8. When we leave an app, we want it to remember where we were.
If we click on a link in an app that takes us to Safari or if we switch apps to copy/paste, 70% of us want the app to remember where we were in it when we come back to it. Some apps do this, some don’t. Make this an OS-level feature so they all do it.
That Stocks app? Cute, but the Yahoo! Finance [iTunes] app is so much better. We don’t need both on our phones.
10. 60% of us want a universal “documents” folder.
We want one location, accessible to all apps, to store documents on the iPhone. Whether we need to send that PDF via IM through Nimbuzz or via email through the built-in Mail app, it’s no problem. Either one can do it because the docs are all stored in one place, accessible to all apps. (We realize this breaks the sandboxing model that prevents one app from blowing away data belonging to another one, but we have every confidence you can make it work.)
11. Better Support for Codecs and Add-ons.
It’s not just Flash, you know. WMV and AVI still rule on lots of sites. Let us see them (60%).
12. The iPhone is a hard drive with a screen, so….
Give us Disk mode in the OS. 50% of us want to use our iPhone as an external USB/Wi-Fi hard drive.
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1. Status indicator light.
90% of us want this. Some of us think a series of green dots (ala the MacBook’s battery indicator lights) that flash when we have a new text or voicemail message would be cool, while some of us want a pulsating light like the sleep light on a MacBook. A few of us even think an illuminated Apple logo that pulsates when we’ve missed a call would be novel. While you may laugh at the last suggestion, it illustrates the fact that we’re dying for a status indicator light in some form.
2. A new design casing.
90% of us think the 3G and 3GS are starting to look their age (and hey, in tech, a device that hasn’t changed looks in 18 months looks ancient). We want a thinner casing – approaching iPod touch thinness, if possible (a tough request, we know, considering how much room the radios take up in the iPhone). We also want the new iPhone casing to have a look that mimics the industrial design of the aluminum unibody finish on the MacBooks – in other words, we love this mock-up Gizmodo did.
3. Front-facing camera.
80% of us want a front-facing video chat camera. Why? Because 80% of us believe we are good-looking enough that the people we talk to want to see us. It might also be good for conference calls: turn the iPhone to its side and see up to three people on your screen at once.
4. LED flash. 
Yeah, 75% of us believe the iPhone blows at taking low-light pictures. It’s not exactly unreasonable to ask for a flash on phones nowadays.
5. 5MP+ camera.
70% of us want a new 5MP camera (or above) to go along with that new LED flash.
6. OLED display.
70% of us think the iPhone’s 320×480 screen is a little too dainty for today’s standards. We want a higher screen resolution to make our text and games pop and we think that higher res should be 480×800 on an OLED display for its clarity, thinness, and battery saving abilities.
7. 64GB storage.
We’ve downloaded over 3 billion apps. Add those to the video we’re now recording on our iPhones, in addition to all our songs and photos, and one thing seems becomes obvious: 32GB doesn’t seem enough anymore. 60% of us ask that you plop 64GB of flash RAM in the next iPhone.
8. 802.11n.
We’re dying to have Wi-Fi syncing, but we realize that 802.11g might not be fast enough. 50% of us want faster wireless so we can sit on our couch and sync the latest photos and videos we took with our iPhone to the computer in the den.
9. RFID.
Why? Besides some pretty cool near-object-based interaction, imagine the next iPhone eliminating the need to carry car keys or credit cards. Key fobs and ‘smart’ credit cards use a type of RFID called Near 
Field Communication. NFC consumes very little power, so it’s attractive to add to mobile phones. Instead of using our keys to enter that new Prius, imagine just having the doors auto-unlock when we get in range of our car, or by launching an app.
Better yet, let us leave our wallets at home. What if Apple teamed with Visa or MasterCard? We download the Visa app and use it to review our purchase right on the screen, then we simply swipe our iPhone at checkout and we’re on our way. And we’re sure you guys at Apple wouldn’t mind take a half percentage point of every transaction too (from the credit card companies, not us!). You’ve already redefined the music, movie, mobile, and (soon enough) publishing industries. We think the credit card companies could use some Apple ingenuity as well.
10. Multi-touch casing.
This one seemed like a long shot until recent rumors, but 40% of us would like to see some Magic Mouse-type love applied to the iPhone. The iPhone has a lot of surface area that isn’t the screen. What if this currently un-utilized area could be transformed into a multi-touch surface? Imagine each side by the home button and speaker slit as a multi-touch area. When playing a video game in landscape mode, this new multi-touch surface could be used as physical buttons for some games, saving the display from your fingers and allowing you to see more of the action on screen.
The loyal readers and iPhone owners of TUAW.