PNS for GPS would be a waste IMO.

My IM app doesnt run when i close the app/ window (since closing the window equals exiting). And your steps might work when Apple gives me copy/ paste and push to begin with.

For the time being though am not too unhappy with my iphone, not sure to be able to hold it that way. Some of these newer phones are tempting to say the least.

I would rather live with a not too fancy UI than not having some of the required functionalities.

I am worried I cant get any decent functionalities out of iphone without a jailbreak which immediately invalidates any warranty/ support from my service provider Disclaimer: This is a purely personal point of view, I know many iphone owners are very very happy, I dont hold anything against them

The same workflow could be applied to other apps, say mail and Safari to search for a piece of text from the email.

What good is copy paste if we cant have multiple apps running? If read something nice i like to ping it to my friends, i miss that after “upgrading” to iphone (it is an internet device!). For me and hoping many others, multiple apps ~ IM! Things i love to do on my phone: talk,sms, music, browse, IM. It would be great it if i xould do all simultaneously without having to exit any of the apps completely!

But, if this rumour were to be true we must assume that Apple have devised a new battery for the third generation iPhone and that new battery is capable of mantainig the iPhone operation for at least one day and in the use cycle that contains calls, sms, browsing, music, faster CPU and, now, multitasking.

Also, if we are to consider multitasking we must assume that Apple will come up with a management interface that is unique, easy and stylish, just like the rest of the phone, which only makes me more curious about what they are developing…

Really, the only things that need to actively run in the background are either music related stuff like iTunes or online radios, or online chat. Anything else should be smart enough to be exited and returned to from its last state.

Push notification would be great in the Blackberry-esque style for things such as twitter or facebook inbox messages for example.

Anyone have any ideas of what they want to see on iPhone 3.0? Both in hardware and software?

I hope there comes a day (soon) when a phone cant be called/ classified as a smartphone. I love my iphone for what if is, a good muiltimedia phone (std 3.5 jack + opn bluetooth would have made it great), combined with the best available UI but am really surprised (to put it humbly) when its called a smartphone. I definitely want it to become one soon though!

Streaming audio is probably the only other background app I can think of that there’s regular demand for.

So think Fring, twitter, skype and fifteen redundant always-on chat applications.

Add to that Nav apps, where people want to talk while pretending the iPhone is suitable for use as a Personal Navigation Device.

Then throw in a few monitoring types of applications, stock prices, server monitoring, ebay monitors, sports betting monitors, and maybe one or two i’ve forgotten.

Thats about it. Nothing else NEEDS to run in the background.

And ALL of these have the characteristic of needing to keep the radios on just about full time to accomplish their purpose.

Translation: Battery Life Disaster.

There is no signaling channel supported by the GMS standard or 3G standards that allow inbound connections to the phone that is not 1) already patent protected by RIM, 2) likely to meet with carrier approval.

So nothing can go to sleep and await an outside signal to trigger its awakening without maintaining a TCP connection which has to be refreshed every 12 to 18 minutes. This is why PUSH is so battery intensive. It has the radio up all night.

And polling a connection for activity is even worse for battery life than maintaining a TCP connection.

The inetd/xinetd daemon model of port monitoring (from Unix/Linux/BSD) allows one monitor to handle all incoming traffic and start/awaken the targeted app. This relieves each app from monitoring their own connection.

But in the best of scenarios, with TCP connections, you still have one app (the daemon) keeping the radios on 24/7 listening for that all important tweet.

So until or unless apple licenses rim’s side channel signaling technology (which essentially put one blip in the normal hand-set to cell-tower chatter that happens every few milliseconds which says “call home for news”), we are going to be stuck with TCP connection monitoring.

And that means the Edge, 3G, or WIFI radio has to wake up every ~15 minutes, negotiate a TCP connection with some remote server, and then pop the radio back on periodically to see if that connection has data waiting.

If you have more than one such connection, each will have its own refresh requirement, which essentially means the radios will be on 24/7. Result: Battery life > 4 hours.

Rims patents are sufficiently broad that side channel signaling over the GSM signaling channels is going to be hard to get around. And even if you did, you need infrastructure.

People with great expectations for background apps are going to be fundamentally disappointed. Vendors of add on battery packs are going to do a land office business.

That feature is what caught my attention! I really hope that feature comes to the iphone that would be awesome for sure.

push notifications seems, at least on the surface, to be a brilliant way to get your notifications without sucking extra battery life.

My guess is something like the Start -> Settings -> Personal -> Menus control panel on a Windwos Mobile device, which lets you control what’s on the Start menu. You get 6 or 7 items and if you try to pick more, the device pops up a message saying you have to deselect someting to select another.