I visited San Francisco for the first time this New Years Eve, and I fell in love with my iPhone all over again: the maps feature saved my life countless times, and having music, phone, camera & email on my pocket made my travel much more fun.
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I don’t wanna talk about the features we all know Apple needs to deliver, but below I propose some small improvements that would make my life easier.

Taking Pictures

Nowadays, in order to take a picture on the iPhone, you need to:

1. click home
2. drag slider
3. type passcode
4. click home again
5. click the camera icon
6. point and shoot

it’s a lot of steps for just one picture… why not simplify it? Like this:

1. click and hold the home button, opens camera (bypassing passcode entirely)
2. release the home button, takes picture

Since the home button is a physical one, I can even set the camera on my pocket yet, and take a picture right after i take it off.

Wireless Sync

Each iPhone/iPod is paired with a specific machine already, so why not allow wireless sync? It’s not that I need to set permissions for each sync, huh? even the new zunes have it!
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Ah, allow me to automatically sync my pictures to iphoto, and even edit name, description, tags and events.

Proximity Behaviors

My cellphone is always with me, and it’s considered a personal thing: in fact, we can say that my cellphone reveals my presence to machines around me. iPhone has bluetooth, so it would be nice to control my computer based on my proximity behaviors, like:

• Away from my computer
  • lock screensaver
  • switch to guest account after 5 minutes
  • set my iChat status to away
  • take an automatic snapshot if keyboard is used, email me right away (nah, that’s the paranoid in me. but allow us to create & share automator workflows)
• Back to my computer
  • unlock scrensaver
  • set iChat status to available (or Current iTunes Song, if that’s the case)
  • play song (welcome home, master!)
• Picking up calls
  • Pause iTunes, QuickTime, FrontRow
  • Open Address Book Contact notes (Edit Mode)
• Ending calls
  • Resume iTunes, QuickTime, FrontRow

Security

speaking of it, there’s a security breach under passcode settings. The system should ask for my passcode before I change the Auto-Lock. Without it, someone can steal my iPhone and change the settings before the auto-lock sets in, invalidating it.