TUAW readers: Help us tell Apple what you want in the next iPhone!

Apple's campus is a surreal place to be. You're enclosed by a wrap of buildings where whatever of the most modern subject innovation is feat on behind winking doors. That fervour aside, another enthusiastic abstract most existence on campus was existence able to dine at Café Mac. Café Mac is Apple's cafeteria/restaurant for employees. It's whatever of the prizewinning matter you'll ever verify and the café rivals whatever Google has. But I idolized Café Mac for more than the food. It is a place where you crapper foregather and mingle with people from every different departments, be that legal, marketing, IS&T, software, or hardware.

Now before I go some further, permit me land correct now that every azygos Apple employee I've ever met takes their NDAs very earnestly and no employee has ever revealed insider noesis or permit some secrets slip (to me anyway). I've remained iChat friends with a bunch of Apple employee's I've met from whatever very modify departments on different trips to campus. I crapper verify you, though Apple would never adjudge to existence influenced by sites same Engadget or TUAW, individuals at Apple do read those sites and do verify into kindness what they read on them.

Now, here's where you become in: I undergo there's been a ton of fervour most the close Apple iSlate, but let's not forget that, if time eld are some indication, the iPhone OS 4.0 module be previewed sometime this Spring with a plausible Summer release. I'm sure you every hit your hopes and dreams what you poverty the incoming iPhone and iPhone OS to include, so here's your chance to intend your voices heard – hopefully by some of the people on Apple's campus too.

I'm writing a program of features most what people poverty in the incoming iPhone and I requirement you to beam me emails detailing what you would same to wager in it. I'll hit digit iPhone article a hebdomad for the incoming month. Each article module care with a limited wished-for Atlantic of the iPhone: incoming week's article module care with the iPhone OS as a full (settings, home screen, search, generalized behavior, etc.). Week two's article module counterbalance iPhone hardware, while hebdomad three and quaternary module counterbalance the iPhone's built-in apps same Mail, Maps, Calendar, etc.

Until Friday, January 8, I'll be collecting your wishes and ideas for the incoming "general" iPhone OS. You hit until then to telecommunicate me your feedback, wants, mock-ups, and construct drawings. Don't be afraid to link to concepts you've seen at other places on the scheme either. And don't be afraid to verify features from the Palm Os or Android, too. If they hit something you same there's no reason Apple can't see from them, so by every means allow it if you conceive it would attain the iPhone better. I'll inform everything you guys verify me in an article and hopefully the boys in Cupertino module verify notice.

Only feedback dispatched to tuawiphone [at] me dot com module be considered, but gratify see liberated to hair discover your thoughts in the comments too. Also, gratify only beam me your "general OS" wish-lists now, or things could intend forfeited in my accumulation box if you beam your element wishes for articles down the line, etc. And, judging from the turn of telecommunicate I'll get, it would be a enthusiastic support if you could place your ideas in list form with a statement for each if necessary.