Slug: update-21-things-i-want-in-a-lover-iphone Date: 2007-07-04 Title: “Update: 21 Things I Want in a Lover - iPhone” layout: post

Updated from my last list, now that the "work of nearly indescribable beauty" has been released:

• Fits in a normal-sized pocket
• A distinct absence of Windows(tm)
• A navigation system based in user-experience reality
• Able to run, quickly, an appropriately standards-compliant web browser
• Likewise an email client
• Likewise some form or news/rss reader
• Has a decent camera (~2mp for mobile pics)
• Might as well play real music
• And video, since it's MY list
• Sync all applicable content (contacts, feeds, bookmarks, music, video)

  with my Macs (Yes, more than one) (half points)

• Bluetooth 2.0

  , compatible with Bluetooth keyboards &/or mice (half points)

• Capable of being managed with one hand for non-data-entry tasks
• Have a *usable* keyboard/thumbboard for data-entry/web/email/IM
• Is a Quad-band phone, since you never know where you'r going to be
• Multi-tasking capable (my rss reader, IM, and email better be able to work simultaneously)
• A decent speaker so that my alerts (incoming call or otherwise) are crisp even when not loud
• *Is itself a work of nearly indescribable beauty*

Still missing:

• Able to use a wifi connection for data and voice traffic when available
• Likewise a multi-protocol IM client
• A bright, 720 x 480 (or better) resolution screen
• Some form of presence management (busy/away/available/driving)