The iPhone, up until now, hasn’t met a lot of customer expectations. Want to send a “Happy New Year!” message to all your friends? You can… one at a time. Want to have live Google maps as you drive without having to look at street signs every second? You can’t. But this, my friends, may be about to change - according to various sources on the Internet, including GearLive. The last firmware update to grace the iPhone included very minute additions (iTunes WiFi), and was mostly put in place to resolve some of the bugs. However, with the release of iPhone firmware 1.1.3, the iPhone could be that much closer to being real competition. The new update may include the things that Apple truly forgot on release.
A list, perhaps, will explain it better:
Sure, Apple is still missing things: for example, a louder ring/vibration, flash-supported Safari, and 3rd party apps - but it's certainly getting there. This update will hopefully bring us that much closer to the release of the iPhone SDK, which will, in my opinion, put a "smackdown" on some of the competitors.
What do I expect to see in updates to come? And what do I really want?
Expected:
Never Going to Happen:
The rumored firmware update may not give the iPhone everything Windows Mobile has to offer; however, I think it has potential. I think people dismissed the iPhone right away without thinking of the prospect of future updates. There will be no need for an iPhone 2, in my opinion, but perhaps just an iPhone firmware v2. Stay updated - perhaps before you know it, you’ll be ditching that Windows Mobile, Blackberry, or Palm based handset and switching over.
Image provided by GearLive.