[par7667]

How about a syncing ToDo list from the iCal program. For crying out loud it can't be THAT hard to offer that then the pretenders that the apps store is pushing. I won't buy anything that doesn't come standard with a Palm Treo using Missing Link. Come on Apple, give us the To Do s for people who actually use that feature the most!

[jonro]

What about Google Docs? I haven't tried them from the iPhone, but that looks like a good alternative until there are native word processors and spreadsheets for the iPhone.

[serpicolugnut]

It's a pretty accurate list. Many of the items on it can be fixed via software updates though. About the only things on the list that can't be fixed via software is the stereo bluetooth (I believe the chip Apple uses doesn't feature it) and the camera.
I would add one other missing feature: Turn by turn voice announced directions via GPS. Garmin and others are already rumored to have the app in development, so I don't think the iPhone3G will go too long without it.

[pgillan]

"If God himself descended from the clouds and instantly removed everything bad in the world, some idiot would immediately publish a blog article titled "Ten things the world is still missing." What a waste of space!"
Well, if someone were thinking about moving to this new world, it might be useful to know what had changed. If I were violently allergic to peanuts, for example, I'd want to know if they were still around. And as someone thinking about maybe getting the new iPhone, it's nice to know what has and has not been resolved from the original. And my only major complaint, the camera, doesn't look like it's been improved.

[peetz]

The thing about Apple is that it consistently has areas where it stubbornly refuses to budge. Has any iPhone user checked whether synching with a Mac allows synching of todo's. I wouldn't be surprised if, even in version 2.0, Apple has not budged on that one. Ipod users have been crying for replaceable batteries since Generation 1, and it's never come, so don't expect it on the iPhone. Apple has a sense of arrogance where, if they think it's best, there is nothing hordes of users can do to ever change Apple's mind, e.g. when they removed the matte-screen antiglare option from their iMac line of computers. A whole new user segment -- iPhone users -- is going to learn about that stubborn streak of Apple's.

[peetz]

The thing about Apple is that it consistently has areas where it stubbornly refuses to budge. Has any iPhone user checked whether synching with a Mac allows synching of todo's. I wouldn't be surprised if, even in version 2.0, Apple has not budged on that one. Ipod users have been crying for replaceable batteries since Generation 1, and it's never come, so don't expect it on the iPhone. Apple has a sense of arrogance where, if they think it's best, there is nothing hordes of users can do to ever change Apple's mind, e.g. when they removed the matte-screen antiglare option from their iMac line of computers. A whole new user segment -- iPhone users -- is going to learn about that stubborn streak of Apple's.

[seano1]

You want to go to the settings application and select Mail, Contacts and Calenders; and then under accounts select your Mobile Me account. This will take you to a screen were you can turn off different push services individually.

[GivingUpOnMac]

Gee, I wounder what's going on in your head. How the h..l can you protect apple for once again fooling people on money with an expensive second class phone. I wounder why you guys protect a company that gives you shit products that forces you to buy new after a year because the new firmware upgrade kills the old one year old phone. Why cant you guys see apples business strategy to force people to buy new and only apple stuff every year. The complete monopolic company, ten time worse than Microsoft.

[ekchew]

One day into using an iPhone for the first time, I have yet to find a way to copy files I receive from clients (either as email attachments or download URLs) over to my Mac, so I can unzip them and have a look. I had hoped I could use the 3G Internet connection to carry on with business when the Mac has no Internet access, but hadn't realized the iPhone is such an island unto itself.
Even using it as a flash drive to copy files from one computer to another is difficult at best. I found a third party app to help with this, but it only works if both machines are running Leopard. Even my old iPod could do this no problem, so it came as a bit of a shock.
Mind you, there are many things the iPhone CAN do that I never imagined it could, so in the end, I'm happy with the purchase.

[tomccabe]

"Oh yeah. And my fkin' wired remote that I used with my iPod Video still doesn't work with my iPod Touch -- and they don't even offer one for iPhone/iPT. I don't care about the radio, but the fact that I have no way to control the music without pulling the iPod out of my pocket and unlocking it is totally unacceptable."

Well, they DO have this feature and have had it since the phone's inception. when the phone is locked, double clicking the home button brings up, GASP!....iPod controls. Go figure! With the remote on the headphones for pause/advance I don't see why you'd need a more bulky wired remote. Being able to change volume while still in my pocket, the only reason i take it out of my pocket at all is to go to a previous track, or to change albums, so the only advantage this wired remote is going to give you is being able to so to the previous track without taking the phone out of your pocket?

[Ciguatera]

Also a IR port. I know this is old tech, but about 2 million realtors use it to open houses. And about all 2 million have to use Palm handsets. Apple would be able to sell an iPhone to every one of these realtors be cause we are all sick of palm.

[ibeetle]

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I don't see why you'd need a more bulky wired remote. Being able to change volume while still in my pocket, the only reason i take it out of my pocket at all is to go to a previous track, or to change albums, so the only advantage this wired remote is going to give you is being able to so to the previous track without taking the phone out of your pocket?

The remote also gives you an FM Radio for those of us that like to listen to NPR or news/talk radio. It lengthens the headphone cable so you can put your iPhone in your backpack or messenger bag; not just in your front pocket 24 inches below your ears. It also allows one to use better than Apple shipped headphones. I love my Shure ec2's, and the remote would accept any standard headphone jack; not just Apples ear buds.

[Hank33304]

I’d like to add a few more irritations regarding Contact fields:
- I use Leopard’s “Address Book” for my contacts and it handles long notes just fine, and so does MobileMe. But when a contact with a long note is synced to the iPhone, any text after about 2,500 characters is truncated. I could deal with that if “Address Book” had an option to give me a character count in the note section so I’d know to split the contact into two.
- The spouse/assistant/etc fields in Address Book don’t carry over to the iPhone. So now I have to go through all my Contacts and move that info to the note section.
- The iPhone User Guide says “you can search the contacts synced to iPhone by name, address, or other information included with the contacts”. But you can’t; it only searches in the name fields. So if you find yourself in Chicago unexpectedly and you want to pull up all your Contacts containing the word “Chicago”, you’re out of luck.

[kboone34]

Of all the post here, you are the one person who got it right. Because if you give them an inch, they will surely ask for a mile !