iPhone Tweak Request: Contact-Centricity
June 29, 2007Rather than tapping on the SMS icon to answer any pending text messages, then the Phone icon to deal with missed calls, then the Mail icon to reply to your latest emails, perhaps iPhone 1.1 could add another option.
How about also combining them all under the context of your known contacts? In the Phone app you can right now view recent calls, and press the Missed button to filter to just the missed calls; there could be an extra button here (perhaps called All Media) that could show contacts, and icons to represent all the methods by which they are awaiting replies.
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In this mode Ricardo Stuckey might have a Phone icon with a “2″ super-imposed representing two missed calls, an SMS icon with a “1″ and an Email icon with a “3″ and so on. Tapping on, say, the Email icon would show you only the pending email messages from Ricardo.
After reading, and optionally replying to his emails you would be taken to his other open messages, of all types, until you were squared away with Ricardo. Of course you have the option to back out of this contact-centric option at any time…
…But the option would be there, and folded into the existing interface; the only immediate clutter being one extra button, for whenever you’re in a people-centric, rather than a method-centric frame of mind.
