Suggestion... brightness buttons on the side.

Hi, I find my self getting annoyed with two small things.
1st, the ringer volume is always changing. When an app opens I adjust the volume of the app with the buttons on the side, but sometimes the app isnt fully open yet and I end up changing the volume of the ringtone volume, and I dont normally find this out until I miss a phone call because the volume was too low.
2nd, I also find changing the display brightness to be a very tedious procedure. I find I have to change the brightness manually about 2 ti 3 times a day. The auto brightness is not that good as it only goes up and down in brightness a little bit.
Possible Fix-
scenario 1 - iphone on a call, when the iphone is engaged in a phone call the two buttons should continue to adjust the in-ear volume.
scenario 2 - open apps, when an app opens the two side buttons should continue to adjust the app volumes.
scenario 3 - ok here is the change, iphone menu screens, instead of the two buttons changing the ringer volumes when the iphone is displaying the menues, the two buttons should adjust the display brightness.
When ever someone wants to make the iphone silent they can simply switch to silent mode. Its not often that some one just wants to turn the ringer down a little bit. So If they ever did want to the can go into settings and change it..... on that note why cant there just be a switch in the settings to set whether the buttons change the volume or the brightness.
I really hope to see this in a future update, thanks
zanda

I change the volume very frequently when listening to music. Not having those volume buttons would make it a less-good iPod (until it ships with headphones with volume buttons, anyhow).
But the ability to customize the buttons to control either volume or brightness could be cool.
Unlikely to happen, however--Apple's official design philosophy prioritizes simplicity over features and aims to make an easy pleasant experience for 80 percent of the users, not to risk confusing the 80% in order to satisfy the 20% who want additional features.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidel ines/XHIGDesignProcess/chapter3_section3.html

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