| As Apple attempts to meet its latest objective of | | | | playlists |
| 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 its | | | | already is on most other, competing, mobile web |
| beloved iPod) everyone and their mother seems to | | | | browsers) |
| 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 wish | | | | content 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 iPhone | | | | ability 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 hope | | | | that $400, it should be your iPhone after all, not |
| alive (and keeping score), we've compiled the most | | | | Apple'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 than | | | | wireless 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, new | | | | apps in the iPhone repertoire |
| ones | | | | - better Notes - one of the ugliest and least |
| - better digital camera (including a dedicated shutter | | | | user-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 such | | | | dropped calls, right now it's way too easy to drop |
| a subpar built-in digital camera | | | | the whole iPhone, with its shoddy rubber strip |
| - more storage - at least 32 GB on-board with an | | | | surrounding it; it would be really nice to have a casing |
| expandable option via an SD or miniSD card slot, | | | | as substantial as its contents |
| please | | | | Gene Munster, a Piper Jaffray analyst, seems to be |
| - USB slot - giving the iPhone the capability of fulfilling | | | | the catalyst for all this pie-in-the-sky pipe-dreaming, |
| its potential to once-and-for-all become the central | | | | having been the first to predict this 45 million sales |
| hub for a bevy of other powerful peripherals | | | | figure back in June of 2007, even before Steve Jobs |
| - voice features - both voice recording and chat | | | | took up the gauntlet. |
| capabilities | | | | Bound to help Apple reach that record number of |
| - GPS - Sorry Apple, but GoogleMaps simply isn't | | | | iPhone sales is the planned progressive release of |
| enough | | | | iPhones into several international markets, such as the |
| - MMS messaging - take a lesson from the | | | | UK, 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 to | | | | pie of all - China. |
| shuffle their entire music library and not just individual | | | | |