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Another idea:

Simply use notes and record.  The recording then can be found by the highlighted notes, exactly like it works with Live Scribe.   Another blog had this post below.

http://www.iphonematters.com/article/livescribe_and_iphone_partnership_322/

Remember the D5 tech convention? If so you may also remember a product created by Livescribe called the Smartpen. If not let me fill you in.

Livescribe has launched a pen which is similar to some digital pens out there today, except it is better. The Smartpen which will come out in quarter 1 of 2008, will be able to visually record your notes so they can be viewed on a computer. Also, it records audio. When it combines these to functions, magic occurs. If I were to go to a class and sit through a lecture taking notes on paper, I may not remember what context I took those notes under. Problem solved! Because now with my smartpen, I can just tap on part of my notes and it will replay the audio that was recorded at the time I was writing those precise words. There are many other awesome functions it can perform.

My idea is that Apple partners with, or at least allows Livescribe to develop iPhone integration. Pages may be uploaded, and then stored on the phone for later viewing without a computer. Imagine note taking on real paper getting transferred into notes on the iPhone automatically without use of the phone. Reviewing a lecture would be easy both on the phone and with the pen. This mobile version could email the pages to others immediately after captured on paper. There are so many possibilities with a partnership like this.  Apple, Livescribe, please make it happen!

Most of the advance speculation has centered on iPhone 3.0. Among the new features rumored or expected — but, remember, not necessarily available right away — are:

• Copy and paste. Better two years late than never, according to multiple sources. See, for example, here and here.
• Push notification. So Facebook, say, could alert you when you have a new message. This was promised in June 2008, but not yet delivered.
• MMS — Multimedia Messaging Service. So you can forward those pictures sent to you by friends with far less sophisticated cell phones. Maybe yes, maybe no.
• Better mail program. Why can’t you search past messages? Read them in landscape mode? Delete them en masse?
• Internet sharing. For those times when your iPhone has access but your laptop doesn’t. Apple and AT&T have both said so-called “tethering” is coming real soon now.
• Bluetooth support. Currently available only for phone headsets. Could be expanded to support wireless keyboards, speaker systems, file exchanges, syncing etc.
• Flash support. So you’d see videos and dancing advertisements instead of those little blue cubes. Adobe (ADBE) says its Flash Player software is ready and waiting for Apple’s approval.
• Better App management. The current interface is barely capable of organizing 148 applications, never mind 28,000.
• Voice dialing and turn-by-turn directions. Quick, before iPhone users cause any more traffic accidents.
• Video capture. It can be done without modifying the built-in camera as iPhone Video Recorder, an application available only for jailbroken iPhones, has shown.
• A new browser. The current version of iPhone Safari is nearly two years old and starting to get a little long in the tooth.
• Better syncing between apps. So those 28,000 applications could share data among themselves.
• Better calendar and t0-do list support. So an e-mail invitation could be automatically added to your iCal.
• More background operation. So you could check your e-mail, for example, without interrupting that Internet radio show you were listening to.
• Projector. So you could project on a wall, screen or another surface.   This makes the ultimate tool even more entertaining.  Micro-vision already has a prototype.   This is probably 4.0.

With all these options and applications, the iPhone has become the ultimate tool for just about everything.

Information gathered at Fortune.CNN.Com.

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