Mac Fanatic wouldn’t be a true Mac based site if some rumors weren’t discussed now and then. So, here is a brief list of what I’d love to see at MacWorld this January. I think most of this has been rumored, but a few items may just be my own creation and have no base on anything at all.

• Official iPhone SDK
• iPhone Software v1.1.3
  • Text Messaging Improvements
    • Support for MMS (Multimedia – Pics and Vids)
    • Support for multiple text message recipients
    • Preference to keep text message recipient list ordered by date or sorted manually
    • Support for text input in landscape mode anywhere, not just in Safari (Would be awesome for texting)
  • Mail Improvements
    • Easier multiple message deletion in Mail
    • Let me set a background on the phone on the home screen, not just black
    • Support for flagging of mail messages via IMAP
    • Syncing of Notes with Leopard Mail
  • Phone Improvements
    • Preference to always show the favorites when I tap on the Phone App, instead of last used (Recents, etc)
    • Ability to clear just my missed calls in the Recents list, instead of clearing all Recent calls
    • Ability to edit contact info from Favorites in Phone.app, instead of having to find the contact under Contacts and edit it there
  • General Additions and Features
    • Ability to save images from Safari in a special album on the phone
    • If current hardware supports it, let me take videos with my iPhone
    • AIM, Yahoo, and MSN chat support
    • More games for iPhone that are not web based
• iTunes Movie Rentals
  • Hopefully this will be affordable
  • Would be amazing if there was a “Rent-to-Own” option, pay 3.99 for a rental and then apply that credit towards purchase of the movie
• Update to Leopard Mail letting me have more Dock icon badges telling me unread RSS items
• New PC-Mac commercial, because they are so fun
• Amazing stats on iPhone, iPod, and Mac sales during the holiday season
• Addition of Leopard Docks to the Mac OS X Downloads page (just like Apple added Widgets)
• Macbook Pro updates – serious redesign as it retains the PowerBook G4 form factor
• New Cinema Displays
• Seriously updated Mac Mini

So, that’s an extensive list of what I’d really like to see happen at MacWorld here in a few weeks. Of course, I’m well aware that some or most of these won’t come true. I’m actually fairly surprised that so much of the things I wanted to see at MacWorld were related to the iPhone. I’m not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing.
Overall I think MacWorld will be fairly exciting. We definitely won’t be seeing updates to iLife or iWork and it took forever for that to materialize last year and it’s just not time for an update. I’m not really sure what the “One More Thing…” could be either, but that’s half the fun!

And finally, I’m also very interested to see if there will be demos of the first wave of Leopard-only applications at MacWorld. Delicious Library and TextMate are two that come to my mind that would be the most exciting to demo (and I believe I read that Wil Shipley will indeed be giving a demo).

Did I leave anything out that you just know will be at MacWorld in January? Leave a comment on this post!