iPhone 3.0 to get Spotlight Device Search
The rumors had said that the iPhone would pick up some features that had been touted for the Pre. One feature of the Pre: Universal Search. The iPhone does the Pre one better with their Spotlight search — it not only searches contacts and apps, but will also search within other key applications like Mail and SMS.
Spotlight on the iPhone works thusly: it becomes your new left-most home screen. When you get there, you can just start typing to bring up a list of everything that matches your search. The list will include data from:
- Contacts
- Calendar
- Email (To, From, Subject)
- iPod
- Notes
- Messaging (SMS / MMS)
- Apps (name of App)
The search results get listed in a big, touchable list and each result will have the icon for the app it’s from set to the left of the result.
Ladies and Gentlemen: this is the single most important new feature of iPhone 3.0 for me and how I use phones. The ability to ‘just start typing’ in order to find what I want to get done is my killer app. How about you?
March 17th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
They have this in the JB community it’s a very nice feature.
March 17th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
I like this feature!
March 17th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
I agree, Dieter. This was the “big one” for me, as well.
March 17th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
I like, but I can haz slingplayer
good coverage btw
March 17th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Finally.
March 17th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Not only was this big, but the ability to search a server is equally as huge.
March 17th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Awesome, can’t believe Apple is doing all of this to the iPhone! This is great!
March 17th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
I agree with Dieter…..this is the app I have needed since day one. My Palm TX had a great search feature and I really really really missed it.
March 18th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
FINALLY. Yes there are search applications in the JB world, but they are not very good at mail searching.
So, according to above, the Spotlight won’t search the body of mail messages??? That is a terrible shame. That’s the part of the message I want to search the most.