When You Wish Upon an iPhone

As Apple attempts to meet its latest objective ofplaylists
selling 45 million units of its newest flagship product- Safari "page down" button - making scrolling as
by the end of 2009 (as a point of comparison,easy as it should be (not to mention as easy as it
incidentally, last year Apple sold 50 million units of itsalready is on most other, competing, mobile web
beloved iPod) everyone and their mother seems tobrowsers)
be composing their own wish list of the features- Flash support - speaking of the Safari browser, the
they'd like to see in next generation iPhones.glaring absence of Flash support severely limits what
One of the most popular items on these iPhone wishcontent can and can't be viewed
lists, 3G network access, looks poised to come true.- Cross-application copy-and-paste - such as the
But what about the rest of the capabilities iPhoneability to copy an address from your contacts and
users past, present, and future are wishing for?insert it into the Google Maps app search field
There's no telling which of these fantasies Apple will- Customizable home screen - once you plunk down
make a reality, but in the interest of keeping hopethat $400, it should be your iPhone after all, not
alive (and keeping score), we've compiled the mostApple's, shouldn't it?
popular items on everyone's iPhone want-list below.- Bluetooth headset support - hello?
- lower price -will Apple ever release lower-priced,- better email- including the ability to sync up your
scaled-down versions of the iPhone for less thanwireless address book with your iCal scheduler as well
$400 a piece?as the ability to delete multiple emails at once
- improved battery - including the ability for users to- fixed screenshot program - one of the buggiest
easily replace worn out batteries with fresh, newapps in the iPhone repertoire
ones- better Notes - one of the ugliest and least
- better digital camera (including a dedicated shutteruser-friendly apps of the bunch
button) - it's still one of the biggest iPhone shockers- tighter grip - get a grip, iPhone! Forget about
that this preeminent multimedia smartphone has suchdropped calls, right now it's way too easy to drop
a subpar built-in digital camerathe whole iPhone, with its shoddy rubber strip
- more storage - at least 32 GB on-board with ansurrounding it; it would be really nice to have a casing
expandable option via an SD or miniSD card slot,as substantial as its contents
pleaseGene Munster, a Piper Jaffray analyst, seems to be
- USB slot - giving the iPhone the capability of fulfillingthe catalyst for all this pie-in-the-sky pipe-dreaming,
its potential to once-and-for-all become the centralhaving been the first to predict this 45 million sales
hub for a bevy of other powerful peripheralsfigure back in June of 2007, even before Steve Jobs
- voice features - both voice recording and chattook up the gauntlet.
capabilitiesBound to help Apple reach that record number of
- GPS - Sorry Apple, but GoogleMaps simply isn'tiPhone sales is the planned progressive release of
enoughiPhones into several international markets, such as the
- MMS messaging - take a lesson from theUK, Germany, Austria, Ireland, Canada, Mexico, Italy,
BlackBerry, will ya?Japan, Australia, Spain, and - the biggest piece of the
- Global shuffle - enabling users of the built-in iPod topie of all - China.
shuffle their entire music library and not just individual