With a new iPhone very likely coming in June, it doesn’t make sense to me to keep this one. So I returned it to Wal-Mart within my AT&T 30-day buyer’s remorse period.
Also, the thing was sluggish compared with my iPod touch. For example. Pocket God took a full five seconds longer to load on my 16GB iPhone 3G than on my 8GB second generation iPod touch.
I’m looking forward to a new iPhone model in June 2009.
Regarding hardware, I’m hoping it has
- Support for the 3G GSM frequency used by T-Mobile USA.
- Unlockable with software.
- The faster bus of the second-gen iPod touch (or better)
- Faster CPU (to ensure it can handle Flash animation really well)
- More RAM (not Flash — RAM). The iPhone has about 5MB free with no major foreground app running (except the iStat app that tells me the memory usage.) For comparison, my iPod touch has 26MB free at the moment. And 4MB inactive. I’d say the iPhone as pushing it a little close on its memory usage at idle. Plus the iPod touch has a faster bus.
- More Flash. 32GB would be great.
- Thinner case
- Speaker on the mic side so my right pinkie finker doesn’t cover it so naturally.
- Better syncing with iCal. Even with 8.1.1, which appears to have somewhat solved my iCal sync problems, they’re still barely solved. After one sync, I’m liable to not be able to sync to iCal again without a reboot. Contacts aren’t very reliable either — sometimes they just sit there forever, pretending to sync.
- OLED (Just dreaming here. The sunlight readability and power usage would be amazing.)
- Even better battery life — what the heck. The battery life is already fine, but more would be finer.
- 802.11n chipset to make it possible to be farther away from a WiFi antenna. And lower-power-usage 802.11g connections. I read somewhere this was a possibility with the chipset someone believed the new phone would use.
- Non-shitty camera. Current camera sucks.
- Video
- Voice dialing (This is the first time I’ve ever wanted voice dialing. But I’ve wanted it from the time I made my first call on my iPhone 3G.
- Maybe later I’ll list my software desires for the next-gen iPhone.