What’s missing from my iPhone

September 15, 2008 · Filed Under Ranting, mo30dc2008 

Now that I’ve had the new 3G iPhone for a little bit, I figured I’d write a post to complain about it. Not because I don’t like it. Quite the contrary. I love it. But, there are a few things still missing that would make my iPhone experience even better.

SMS MMS messaging
I know this isn’t an original gripe, but still. Come on guys, I want to be able to take blurry photos and send them to my friends. I also want to be able to receive drunken party photos from my friends while they are out at the clubs.

Copy/Paste
As much as I would love to be able to blog from my iPhone, until I’m able to cut and paste, that just isn’t going to happen. Most of my blog posts have links to sites/products/whatever, and there’s no way I’m going to type out some crazy URLs to product pages buried deep within a site. I may as well try to write in braille.

Delete All
When I check my work email address, I scroll through, deal with the important emails and then delete them. This way I know the next time I look, any emails in my inbox need to be dealt with. I also have to delete all the spam that accumulates. After dealing with the good emails and I’m left with all the spam, deleting all would sure be handy.

Mark All As Read
Same general purpose as the delete all, except this is more important in gmail accounts where, if you delete an email, it’s deleted on gmail, too. Not just from your iPhone. In this case, marking them all as read so you can see a proper count of new emails would be useful. I may be alone on this one, but it’s my post…

Ability to switch between programs
Why can’t I have two programs running at once and then switch between them. If I’m in the middle of a killer game of Sudoku and I receive a text message and need to respond, when I’m done, I need to start the Sudoku application from the beginning rather than just switching back to it. In most cases, the games remember where you were at. But, that’s not the case with all apps. Plus, why should I have to wait 10-30 seconds for an app to load that I was just using a minute ago?

Sync with multiple computers
I have a desktop PC and a laptop that I would like to be able to use the iPhone as the go-between for syncing my music and my contacts. When I go on the road, having access to my full set of contacts on my laptop would be convenient. And, while I’m out on the road, if I buy a new album from iTunes, I want to be able to move it to my iPhone and/or desktop when I return home.

A few of these are keeping the iPhone from being the “Killer App” for me. I love it, but I have so much more love to give…

Leave me a comment and let me know what’s missing from YOUR iPhone.

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    digital roaming that won't cost me my firstborn!
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    #1 on my list is the same as yours and you just about covers it except I think you meant MMS. That's the #1 thing that I run into that irritates me that I don't have. It's not the worst single problem, just a small annoyance like 10 times a day which pushes it right to the top of the list. As frivolous as it is for me to have, it's at least that frivolous for them to have added the functionality.

    #2 on my list: reminder beeps for phonecalls, emails, text messages and voicemails. They made an effort in the 2.1 software. It not an option one can turn on or off, it's just on, and you can't pick what the reminder beep is or how often it happens. Now, if you miss something you get a reminder beep 5 and 10 minutes after the initial event. Then it phone just gives up. Somehow this is even worse than just not having reminders whatsoever.

    Stop f%$#*@ing around with us, Apple! You have some of the best programmers on the planet and you're crushing their souls by not allowing them to give us the silly things we need! We paid you between $200-$600 for the damn phone, probably twice, why do you make us have to justify that crap on a daily basis?

    I swear if I see Steve Jobs on the street I'm going to throw a brick at him. You know this is his fault.
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    @james that sounds more like your plan than the phone itself, but I hear ya!!

    @todd I have missed so many calls on my iphone. I either don't feel it vibrate, I don't hear it ring, etc. Then, some time later I look at the phone for some other reason and see the missed call. Man, that's annoying!

    As for the Steve Jobs hate, simmer down... he's just giving us the goods a little bit at a time so that we don't all geekgasm at the same time...
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    Ok, there's a service (for $99/yr) that Apple has introduced (I talked about this with the Apple store rep that I allowed to try and talk me out of my Windows OS phone) called MobileMe (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB824?mco=NzY...). He says that the service is able to sync all your computers: iPhones/smartphones, network drives, PCs, etc. It's really funny that Apple is charging for this [new/BETA?] service and Microsoft's BETA version of network syncing software, Mesh, is free right now, and works fine for me. However the advantage to the Apple version of this syncing software will be that it is over-the-air, so adding a contact/pic/whatever on your iPhone will be synced via internet server (remote sync?) immediately, as opposed to MS's current ability to hard-wire sync. Networks in Mesh can be accessed via the internet, but there is no app to sync using an over-the-air internet protocol (yet), but that may be arriving with the addition of the ability to sync with Windows OS smartphones. I know MS is working on a smartphone application, but haven't checked recently to see where they are in the release of the newest Mesh version.

    Free MS plug: If you have MS OS on your smartphone and want a similar (to MobileMe) app, sign up (while it's free!) and keep an eye out on Mesh.com (https://www.mesh.com/Welcome/LearnMore.aspx).

    Your Partially-Knowledgeable-Remaining-Impartial Friend,
    David
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    I just about hopped on the iPhone bandwagon. But the love/hate thing already has it goin on between my blackberry and me.

    So many valid complaints. Maybe I'll just get an Android at the end of this month. I hear it will at least give you a reach-around.
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    @David I'm going to sign up for th 60 day free trial of Mobile Me and see what it's about. If I can sync Goldmine and my iphone, I'm going to to suck it up and pay the $100/year.

    @Jason don't get me wrong, I LOVE my iPhone. The complaints I have are all things that would just be icing on an already yummy cake. Give in to the temptation... drink the iPhone Koolaid!
 

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