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From a recent email to Apple:

I’ve been using the iPhone for a couple of weeks now, and while I’ve been using it, I’ve jotted down a list of feature ideas in the handy notes application. Here’s what I’ve come up with:

1) Todo list/note synchronization: the iPhone should have a todo list application that synchronizes with the todo items in iCal or Outlook. Also, the Notes application should synchronize with… something. Perhaps it will with Notes in Mail?

2) Louder speaker phone: while the music volume in the iPod features seem fine, the speaker phone volume on calls is way too soft. There must be some way to make it at least a bit louder. 3) Multiple SMTP servers: one of the biggest pains I have with the iPhone is having to change my SMTP server to send email whenever I transfer between my home wifi and EDGE. Is there a way to put in a list of SMTP servers, and have them tried in succession? Or perhaps multiple profiles, one for home and one for elsewhere?

4) “Open in new page” tap: this one’s tricky, but it’d be nice if there was an easy way to open a new page/tab in Safari from a link, like Command + Clicking on the desktop.

5) Wifi-based Visual Voicemail Access: I know Apple probably doesn’t have much to do with this one, but it annoys me that I have to be on an EDGE connection to get my visual voicemail. Not a big issue, since the iPhone uses EDGE when sleeping anyway, but it’d just be handy.

6) Auto-disable vibrations when on a call: I know I’m strange, but I’d rather not have my phone vibrate while it’s pressed against my face

7) Calendar is buggy: I’ve had problems adding events (and making them stay), and have seen random “New Event”-title events showing up in iCal on my iMac. I think the calendar app needs a bit of love.

8) Ability to email multiple photos: I can imagine it’d be horrendously slow on EDGE, but it’d still be nice to be able to put multiple photos in an email.

9) Widget item reordering: again, just a small thing, but it’d be nice to rearrange the items in Stocks and Weather, other than just deleting and re-adding in the correct order.

10) Video and audio recording: audio notes and the ability to take videos with the built-in camera would make life so much easier.

11) WiFi music sharing: no, not Zune-style. I was thinking more like iTunes’ built-in library sharing. Since the iPhone has a non-standard-sized headphone jack (the ring around it prevents a lot of connectors from fitting in), it would be nice to be able to play the iPhone’s music from a copy of iTunes on another computer, via Bonjour (and of course, with proper authentication).

12) WiFi on/off switch: not quite like airplane mode, I’d just appreciate the ability to quickly turn just WiFi on and off, to prevent joining slow, unreliable, or pay-per-use WiFi networks. Perhaps just moving the WiFi on/off switch up a level in Settings, to make it faster?

All I’ve got for now, but hope it helps!

-Matt

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