iPad RFE – Show Photos from SD Card

I love my iPad. Well, I do use it a little bit less now I have a kindle for ebooks (lets face it, eink nicer to read for black&white content than a glowing screen, even a resolutionary one, more on that later).

I even bought the $30 camera connection kit (before I found the ¥20 (~$3) one in China that is not only cheap, but gives you about 5 different memory cards in the one device).

I just wish I could plug in my SD card and display photos from it without having to import them all. Importing sucks for several reasons: a) it’s slow, b) it takes up space on my iPad, c) it then takes up space on my computer when I backup my iPad d) when the photos have a RAW component, it gets imported too, further exacerbating points c & d, without really adding anything to my slideshow. My 16GB of photos – backed up on my computer already, uses another 16GB on my iPad, and then a further 16GB backup on my computer.

Maybe I shouldn’t admit this – but being forced to import photos in order to show them is the No. 1 reason why I didn’t just buy the 16GB new iPad when I upgraded last week, as there simply isn’t enough working space for me do to this on a long trip. Hey I’ll give Apple tonnes of my heard earned cash just the same, I promise – there really isn’t a need to force me for this particular upgrade.

My final gripe is that the camera connection kit doesn’t work on the iPhone. Why can’t I plug in my DSLR’s memory card & add photos to my spikes (preferably without importing first, see above)?

Fowarding Contact Info (iPhone)

The iPhone really really needs the ability to forward a contact (or part thereof) to someone by SMS (or even email). The ability to forward an SMS might be nice too (or the ability to copy/paste text so as to do it manually, not to mention other things).

The SMS feature is one of the iPhone’s best – chat style display really really works (reviewing old messages is awesome – how did Nokia not think of this?) – but this is sorely lacking, I hate having to pull out a pen and paper just to forward a number.