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back to the days of Palm

It would be nice to BEAM them, in the same manner and dialog, to iPhoto thats open on my Mac's screen

This worked great on a vacation last month where I did NOT have free WiFi, and wanted to backup my daily photos from my iPhone to iPad in my hotel room. Too bad it requires both devices to be on a WiFi network. It seems like they should be able to make an ad-hoc WiFi network without a base station. Bluetooth worked, but was much slower than 802.11.

Sometimes it seemed like the iPhone and iPad purposely did not go to sleep while transferring, but I thought one did once, and stopped my large, overnight transfer, so I started turning-off auto-lock and leaving them plugged-in with the screens dimmed (extra pain).

Yes, I used iCloud Photo Stream as a backup when I was on a free WiFi connection, but I noticed another problem with it. Photo Stream uploads all new photos, then downloads them back to the "Photo Stream" album on the iPhone. I'm not positive, but I think it actually downloads a copy of each picture from iCloud (wasting bandwidth for photos it already has), and I think it stores a second copy of them on the device (doubling their memory usage). It seemed like memory usage jumped after enabling Photo Stream, but I had no way of measuring whether they were re-downloaded or stored twice. I'd love it if someone had the tools to figure this out. I struggled to keep enough free memory for taking lots of pictures (especially when HDR doubles them -- which I like) on a month-long trip without a computer to off-load photos.

excellent!

I purchased iPhoto for iOS but regrettably haven't used it much. This is a nice feature to be included!