MMi has a post up that includes a concept video demo of a new (not yet released) Dashboard Widgets app for the iPhone.  It is intended to work like Dashboard on a Mac “ providing easy, one-tap access to useful widgets.

On a Mac, you have a hotkey (F12 by default) that launches Dashboard “ and there are tons of available widgets for it “ from clocks and calculators, to sticky notes, address book searchers, daily tips, system maintenance widgets, and tons of others covering a very broad spectrum.  In the demo video, Dashboard is invoked with a tap of the Home button, and hidden away again the same way.

I feel similar to John at Gizmodo about this one “ not sure how useful this might be, or how things would be managed in terms of how a home button press would still work to return to your first screen / whether Dashboard may end up being invoked via multiple presses etc.

It would all boil down to what widgets are available I think.  The Clock and Notes app widgets in the demo would be of very little interest for me “ but I ‘m sure there are plenty that could be quite useful if this catches on.  What I ‘d really like is for some of my most frequently used apps to be available as widgets this way “ much faster to just hit the home button once or twice than it is to swipe across multiple screens.  But that ‘s an App Launcher “ which is what I really want to see – and I ‘m not sure whether that would be a part of this.

Dashboard is being developed by Steven Troughton-Smith, who also developed the Mac-OSX mimicing Stacks app for the iPhone jailbreak arena.

For more details and to check out the demo video, see this MMi news post “ and let us know what you think of this concept

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