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3-09-2008 @ 1:23PM
Evan Lugh said...
(1st) Isn't it too small, though?
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3-09-2008 @ 1:34PM
Matt said...
I think that would be a stupid place to put it, you'd scroll to A and hit it almost every time.
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3-09-2008 @ 1:53PM
punkassjim said...
I think it'd be a perfect place to put it. It'd be just at the top, between your own phone number, and the A's. Putting the search field at the top means you don't have to have a popup or a new screen. Simplicity is key. I'll bet they're gonna have live filtered updating, and hopefully it'll be better at it than the current Search.app (for jailbreak).
When I scroll to the B's, I always hit A or C, so I just keep moving my finger till I get it right. It still only takes a fraction of a second.
3-09-2008 @ 4:01PM
iPontus said...
It'd probably be part of the list. If you hit it instead of A, you'd still have A below, just as if you get to O and want to P, nothing is stopping you from just flicking your way there.
3-09-2008 @ 5:36PM
Matt said...
I see now how they could have it, they could have the search above the A, as in another section called "Search" above the A contacts.
3-09-2008 @ 1:46PM
Mo said...
I'm hoping Apple will include MobileSpotlight in the iPhone 2.0 OS—the system-wide search was one of the best features of Palm OS.
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3-09-2008 @ 1:57PM
punkassjim said...
And what would it search? Your contacts, email and bookmarks? That's kinda an over-powered search tool for just three different data types...I doubt they'll do it that way.
3-09-2008 @ 6:55PM
Mo said...
@punkassjim: …and Mail messages, Calendar appointments, Notes, To-do items (here's hoping there IS a To-do app)—all of the normal PDA stuff.
But perhaps most importantly, data from third-party apps. I'd expect MobileSpotlight, if implemented, to be as extensible as its big brother.
3-09-2008 @ 10:01PM
William said...
@punkassjim:
also music and photos. It would be nice to be able to quickly pick a song rather than having to browse through lists. And if you have thousands of photos, it'd be nice to be able to bring up all the photos of a particular person or place that you've tagged in iPhoto, rather than having to jump and scroll in and out of numerous albums.
3-09-2008 @ 1:46PM
Ryan Schmidt said...
Is it really that hard to believe that APPLE just decided to "label" the "ABCD..." column? Could the magnifying glass simply mean "Search by letter"?
This is clearly just another case of "no news sundays". Move along, nothing to see here.
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3-09-2008 @ 6:52PM
Sam Gross said...
If they thought that it was necessary, it would have been in the 1.1.4 update that came out last week. It wouldn't be that hard to implement, because it would just be a tiny .GIF added to the OS. Also, I think that it is quite intuitive to use, and anyone who buys an iPhone could pick up it's use within a few seconds.
3-09-2008 @ 3:05PM
atothej said...
But if you have support for exchange servers you need a search feature. Or do you really want to scroll through thousands of contact entries??
3-09-2008 @ 4:10PM
mark said...
But we already *have* search by letter, and we know what the alphabet column does. So what would be the point of Apple simply "labeling" the existing alphabet column? Not much.
The icon is there for a reason.
3-09-2008 @ 4:22PM
mark said...
Plus, the existing feature is *not* "search by letter." It's scroll by letter. Search is a different feature, all together, and the magnifying glass is always used for *search*.
3-09-2008 @ 1:59PM
vandy1997 said...
I don't understand what has taken so long to add a search feature. At least in the telephone modes (contacts, favorites, keypad), but also in the music/video mode. They put it in the YouTube app and in the Mobile iTunes app. And it will be in the MobileSafari and App Store. I can't understand why it wouldn't have one in the other app. There could be an option to do search only within an app or systemwide. It makes search tasks, especially when searching through contacts, much easier to accomplish. This is one of the omissions that would be very easy to include, and I cannot think of a valid reason not to do so.
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3-09-2008 @ 2:08PM
MacGeek Pro said...
I, for one, would love a global, spotlight-esque search feature. I would love it to draw information from my contacts, calendars, email, and yes, even my music. I'd love to search easily for the name (or part of the name) of a song, album, or artist. We have a keyboard on the iPhone and iPod touch, so let's use them! Even the classic and nano have a search feature using the click wheel.
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3-09-2008 @ 2:25PM
PalmerDeville said...
A search icon in an unexpected place and a finder icon in the Cocoa Touch UIKit. (11:39 into the iPhone Application Development - Getting Started video)
Looks like 2.0 will be a major leap forward toward opening the OS.
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3-09-2008 @ 3:08PM
PA said...
It would be great to be able to search a section of lyrics, too. Often I hear some lyrics in my head but can't quite remember the song. It's weird that this feature isn't in iTunes, either.
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3-09-2008 @ 3:21PM
Jarques said...
It's called Google.com, use it?
3-09-2008 @ 3:28PM
PA said...
I was thinking of searching one's own music. I've heard of Google but it doesn't filter my library and let me start playing the song right away.