As promised in our monster-long, epic Best of Everything iPhone 2009 post earlier this week, here is another of our ‘bite-sized ‘ chunks recapping our favorite iPhone-related things we got to cover during this year.
This recap covers our favorite new iPhone features of the last year “ as well as some we believe are still missing. Luckily there was plenty of both to talk about in 2009. Hit the jump to see some of our most notable ones in both areas
Offline Gmail was demo ‘ed in February, how far it ‘s come!:
http://isource.com/iphone-news/offline-gmail-for-iphone-demo-ed/
Google Sync ‘s debut of contacts and calendar: http://isource.com/iphone-news/google-sync-brings-over-the-air-calendar-and-contacts-sync-for-iphone/
Multi Photo Email is now OBSOLETE:
http://isource.com/iphone-application-reviews/multi-photo-email-replaced-by-photos-mail-in-30/
Memory-freeing apps, before they were neutered / updated “ iStat, Free Memory, others:
http://isource.com/iphone-app-store/free-memory-app-no-longer-in-the-app-store-and-will-not-be-able-to-free-memory-when-it-comes-back/
Thomas misses MS Voice Command, iPhone Voice Control doesn ‘t really compare: http://isource.com/general/i-miss-microsoft-voice-command/
About how Notebook app can lock its orientation, Safari should learn from this: http://isource.com/iphone-software/appigos-notebook-can-now-lock-its-orientation/
Gmail swipe to archive ->
http://isource.com/iphone-optimized-sites/gmail-web-app-now-with-swipe-to-archive/
iPhone less ducking and more swearing: http://isource.com/iphone-os-software/iphone-os-30-iphone-os-software/iphone-os-30-now-with-less-ducking-more-umm-swearing/
Thomas ‘ quick thought “ skipping app updates: http://isource.com/iphone-app-store/quick-thought-skipping-iphone-app-updates
Patrick on oleophobic coating, thinks it has something to do with Canada: http://isource.com/iphone-news/iphone-3g-s-newer-faster-packs-oleophobic-coating-say-what
Thomas wished for Evernote offline editing “ he got it!
http://isource.com/general/offline-evernote-edits-please/
Joe on easier home screen management in 3.0:
http://isource.com/iphone-tips/iphone-30-software-has-small-but-useful-feature
Managing apps in iTunes = blah, letdown:
http://isource.com/iphone-os-software/managing-apps-in-itunes-first-impression-not-impressed/
Honestly, at least so far “ after having done a restore and update to 3.1 and actually using the new capability to re-arrange my apps “ it just doesn ‘t feel very much better than the nothing that preceded it.
Our favorite uses of push notifications:
http://isource.com/iphone-software/our-top-seven-favourite-uses-of-push-notification
Roll on 2010
New features, new ways to use them, and what we find is lacking are all amongst our very favorite topics to discuss with you here. 2009 served up plenty of good topics in these areas. With (hopefully) some increased competition from Android and others in 2010, I imagine we may have even more to talk about here.
I hope you enjoyed our iPhone features recap “ and that you ‘ll share some of your thoughts on these in the comments.
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