Way back in March Apple announced that the latest and greatest build of the iPhone OS would open up a whole new world to third parties richly featured complete with tiein software No longer would accessory makers be limited to headphones cases and FM with hardware controls now they could make glucose meters guitar amp and FM with onscreen controls The were endless 8 months later what is there to show for it Theres a 120 car cradle that boosts the GPS accuracy of the iPhone some fancy running shoes and er well thats about it Maybe were just expecting too much maybe the process is even more of a chore for the hardware guys than it is for app store developers At this rate though well be seeing a fourth generation iPhone before we see any more Partly for the sake of inspiring would be and partly because we just like to think about this sort of stuff weve come up with a list of 5plus iPhone accessories were waiting for Feel free to add your own in the comments A Detachable Physical Keyboard After spending two years blasting away at the iPhones virtual keyboard I thought Id grown past my desire for a physical one Then I spent a week with the Droid and fell in love again Thats not to say the Droids keyboard is all that great in fact its kinda crummy but for those of us that prefer to touch something real theres just nothing that compares with mashing down on an actual button Its almost ridiculous that this one hasnt been made yet and that even when it is support will likely be so limited that itll suck something fierce That is of course unless Apple lends a hand If a third party does it alone app devs will need to manually add support for the keyboard onebyone if Apple provides the character input API as an alternative to their virtual keyboard view would benearly universal I dont care it makes my iPhone so thick it makes it look like Im smuggling bricks in my pants I just want to be able to type an email longer than 10 sentences without getting thumb cramps Gamepad The iPhone platform has already proven itself to be an incredible stage for onthego gaming Graphics Check Tons and tons and tons of games Check Awesome controls Che er wait nope No one wants Apple to bulk up the iPhone by adding more buttons but for gaming sessions longer than 510 minutes having an physical gamepad of some sort would be a godsend There are already at least two projects striving for this namely the GameBone Pro and the iControlPad both of these have seen a bunch of delays and have gone more or less silent in the past two months Bonus Accessory converters for oldschool Would I look silly as hell plugging an SNES controller into an iPhone Sure But Idgladly do it Come on XArcade whip something up Universal Remote You know what shouldnt need to exist anymore The remote control Its a wonderful idea but its one that hasnt really changed all that much since it went wireless in 1939 Apple could destroy the entire highend remote think Logitech Harmony market by simply strapping the iPod Touch with an RFIR Apples not about to do that but in the mean time a third party could get the ball rolling Build a transmitter into a dongle or a case throw together a user remote application for sharing control layouts and codes and bam Youve got a remote for every device in the world in your pocket at all times Dog Training Tools As the owner of what Im quite confident is the worlds most stubborn dog Im always on the lookout for new training tools It always blows my mind at how clunky the solutions are Along the same lines of the Universal above why not one for the doglovers out there In fact it could just be an alternative model of that dongle let the RF transmitter communicate with whatever training tools might be in place such as a citronella spray collar for example but slap in a high frequency loudspeaker to emulate a dog whistle whenever the collars are back at home Credit Card Payments Mobile payments havent taken off in the US the way they have in other countries so most of our handsets arent equipped for such things Theres no reason the iPhone couldnt do it however Heres how we see it many credit card companies already have RFID chip readers in place wherever theyve got a creditcard reader which allows for that payment system that no one really seems to use to work Why not make use of that American Express or Mastercard could make a case or a dongle that has an RFID built in just like your credit cardale z korzyścią dla tieins the RFID może być na bieżąco Just swiping pracy sprawa wouldnt ale po youve hopped do app płatności i dziurkowany w Twój numer pin przypadku działa jako karty kredytowej dla 30 sekund te są nasze pomysły na lepiej lub gorzej z że możemy odwrócenie reigns do czytnika dearest użytkownik jakie akcesoria są można mając nadzieję come out sooner niż później