Copy and Paste is a fairly fundamental feature. Yesterday I received an email with contact details. I had to write them on a post-it, switch to the contact app on the iPhone and then key it in. Very very poor! I don't always have pen and paper handy - that's the whole point of a smart phone, not needing to carry a pen and pad. My old WM2005 device could do more. It was free, it had full Office support, it could run TomTom with the Bluetooth dongle (in fact, it's my GPS device in the car now, with a Pay as You Go SIM for traffic updates). It would be nice if the iPhone could come even close to that.

"And they suggest that having full email instead of the super expensive MMS mesages is the lack of a feature"

Erm, don't know about you, but here in the UK, MMS costs me nothing. Well, almost nothing. Included in my contract is 1000 SMS text messages per month, one MMS takes the equivalent of 4 SMS. There's not a hope in h*** i could get through more than that in on month, therefore, they cost me nothing. Also, with the amount of junk mail we get these days, who would want to sift through it on a mobile phone's email client which has no filtering rules?! Not only that, but if I'm out and about, take a photo of something and send it to a friend via MMS, they can view it immediately. If it goes over email, they can't.

Put simply, email is absolutely no substitute for the power, speed and ease of MMS/SMS.

And another thing, still a 2MP camera? Umm, hello, WTF?! My mum's phone already has a 2MP camera....and it's over 3 years old! I'm on 5MP with my phone just now, no chance am I going to downgrade. Apple got criticised for the 2MP camera first time around, why not change it now while they have the chance?

Still no tethering, still no J2ME, still no flash for video websites, still no bloody use. When I saw they'd added 3G and GPS and brought the price down, I thought "great I'll have one now". Seeing that that's ALL they've done, I'll keep my SonyEricsson phone thank you very much.

I am still waiting to buy a camera that includes a free phone in the package ... then again ... i wish phones didnt have cameras in them .. its a PHONE!

I am still waiting to buy a camera that includes a free phone in the package ... then again ... i wish phones didnt have cameras in them .. its a PHONE!

I am still waiting to buy a camera that includes a free phone in the package ... then again ... i wish phones didnt have cameras in them .. its a PHONE!

If you look at the software for the hacked/jailbreaked phones, nearly ALL of these issues are addressed. There are two guys here where I work that have hacked phones, and they software is very nice. There is a video capture, cut and paste utility, wireless tetherless modem... I am sure many of these applications will find their way into the iTunes store in July.

Many are missing the point, and some actually get it. Yes we complain because Apple themselves set the bar hight, and our expectations higher. So when they fall short, we are amazed, er, befuddled.

Smart Phone? To those who criticize our request list must not own one currently as some of us obviously do.

1) Why can't i copy and paste information around my phone? This is a very logical use, ignored again.

2) Why can't i send contact and calendar events to others?

3) Why can't i store files other than music, video, and photos?

My typical day with my iPhone: I receive all these lovely messages with attachments. However, i can't save them for latter use, i must stumble through my email again, just to forward (and then clean up) the message.

I make a calendar appointment, and someone calls wanting it. Oops, sorry, i have to tell you and you write it down, or wait until i get back to my desk.

Hey Richard, do you have contact information on George? Sure, but i have to tell you, or wait until i get back to my desk as i can't send from my iPhone.

Hey Richard, what's that? Oh, its an external drive. Why do you carry that? For all my documents and files i might need while away from the office. So you have to lug that around. Yeah, either that or my notebook as my SMART PHONE can't carry or send files.

4) Why can't i text photos? Others seem to with great ease with their dumb phones, but i can't with my SMART PHONE

That's why we complain, and in the real world, you run into these things. Now if Apple did not build an interface that would suggest these features be natural, then no one would complain. But Apple DOES build a UI that one then beckons the question "Why if i can do all of this, i can't do simple things?"

I have the best email client on a phone, but can't save attachments. I have the best browser on a phone, but i can't save passwords. I have the best calendar on a phone, but it can't send appointments. I have the best SMS client on a phone, but it can't send photos. I have the best contacts on a phone, but i can't send them. Why can't i set me email to show my inbox by default?

5) Why can't i print over WiFi? Sure, someone sent me an email to my phone with an Excel file, but i have to send it to my iMac to print it??

16GB of space on a phone? For what? You can only carry entertainment files! You'd think some of that 16GB could be for print drivers, or file storage.

But i do have a NEW calculator!!

So many other phones have video cameras, and they all pretty much stink up the joint, YouTube has been inundated with absolute junk since people started doing all their videography with their Nokias. Apple could have probably easily added video, but they don't want to do it until it is right, and not just play "Me too!"

I have a blackberry and rarely use copy & paste. Guess I have a better knack at remembering snippets of information than most.

On the other hand, if the new iPhone OS has the context sensitive actions like Mail 2.0 does, that's a different story!

It seems that we are hearing the same story, over and over again. No matter what Apple releases, there are going to be people who will claim it is missing something extremely important: from the new iMacs, to new MacBooks, MBAs, iPod Touch, to the iPhone. And the reason is the same: Apple is not designing their devices according to your specifications; their hardware design is carefully thought out, their feature set is always trimmed down to the bare minimum. We all often use the expression 'feature bloat' when talking about Microsoft. Apple is the opposite of that; from single-button mice, to single-button iMac, to single-button iPod (touch), to single-button iPhone. Everything Apple makes has been carefully planned to include the least number of features that will be used the most of the time. In fact, Jobs said exactly that yesterday - vast majority of iPhone 1.0 users are using at least 10 features of their phone.

IPhone will never satisfy majority of the needs of majority of visitors to this forum. We are (generally speaking) tech guys, who know what cellphones could do for us. Tethering, storing files, MMSing, SMSing, IMing, copy/pasting, etc; all these are actions that minuscule percentage of general population even know about or use (with the obvious exception of SMS outside of the US).

IPhone's software shortcomings will be overcome one by one over time. It is possible that one or more of the features cried for above will be added. Remember, yesterday, we witnessed HARDWARE upgrade - not a software update/upgrade. New software was already announced three months ago. We should expect the next software update at the end of summer. Perhaps you might be ready for an iPhone by then...

It seems that we are hearing the same story, over and over again. No matter what Apple releases, there are going to be people who will claim it is missing something extremely important: from the new iMacs, to new MacBooks, MBAs, iPod Touch, to the iPhone. And the reason is the same: Apple is not designing their devices according to your specifications; their hardware design is carefully thought out, their feature set is always trimmed down to the bare minimum. We all often use the expression 'feature bloat' when talking about Microsoft. Apple is the opposite of that; from single-button mice, to single-button iMac, to single-button iPod (touch), to single-button iPhone. Everything Apple makes has been carefully planned to include the least number of features that will be used the most of the time. In fact, Jobs said exactly that yesterday - vast majority of iPhone 1.0 users are using at least 10 features of their phone.

IPhone will never satisfy majority of the needs of majority of visitors to this forum. We are (generally speaking) tech guys, who know what cellphones could do for us. Tethering, storing files, MMSing, SMSing, IMing, copy/pasting, etc; all these are actions that minuscule percentage of general population even know about or use (with the obvious exception of SMS outside of the US).

IPhone's software shortcomings will be overcome one by one over time. It is possible that one or more of the features cried for above will be added. Remember, yesterday, we witnessed HARDWARE upgrade - not a software update/upgrade. New software was already announced three months ago. We should expect the next software update at the end of summer. Perhaps you might be ready for an iPhone by then...

The only mobile Flash I care about is streaming video flash. Fortunately, while Adobe is busy seeing how far they can stick their thumb up their a**, open-source developers are porting the VLC Media Player to the iPhone, including FLV playback. It's currently in semi-closed beta but should be rolling out soon.

As for regular Flash - I've yet to see a compelling Flash app. I avoid Flash like the plague and use truly open standards. Right now, there's very little you can do for a wide audience with Flash that can't be done with Javascript, CSS and the Canvas tag.

Either the iPhone is a SMART PHONE or it is not. Make your minds up. When I receive an SMS or email with contact details or appointment details then I'd like to be able to pop that into my address book or my calendar, without having to not it down and re-type it. That's not too much to ask for.

On my old N95, someone could SMS me a contact and I could then add it to the address book. Where is that feature on the iPhone? The ironic thing is that Apple Mail on my Mac can do that!!

I also like the way that people make excuses for Apple all the time, whilst getting a dig in to anyone else (Microsoft anyone?). There is no excuse for a half-baked product that is marketed as REVOLUTIONARY and then fails to do basic things that the competition have been doing since the turn of the century.

Vasic, reading your comment above it seems that you work for Apple - you seem to know all about how they work (or are you just making it up as you go along? Let me guess...). So perhaps you could pass on some feedback to your colleagues about features that people would like to see from their relatively expensive SMART phone?

After jailbreaking my phone just to get a super slow search function- Apple finally got search into 2.0.
I'm still flabbergasted every time a friend sends me a pic via sms and I have to go to a computer- go to www.viewmymessage.com and manually enter the id and password- then only see a micro version of a photo.
C'mon Apple- doesn't anyone there actually use an iPhone with someone else who DOESN'T have one?
And- I agree- video capture- and upload to YouTube should be in it- what kind of smart device that's the most web connected can't do this?
A lot of progress- but still stupid for a smart phone.
I'll still be buying one- since I just dropped my 2.5g in water- and it's $249 to repair- you'd think they'd figure out that no one fix their phone at that price.

All this bitching and moaning is a good read.

Of the features mentioned, the only ones I really care about are copy/cut/paste (surely if Apple doesn't implement it in 2.0, someone will be able to?) and horizontal keyboard in email and text messaging. That is all.

Am I missing it, or is the 3G iPhone and iPhone 2.0 sw missing voice dialing?

Gee, when Jobs was talking about the iPhone at MWSF, he pressed the point that it was a phone first, and that had to work (thus, people can't be doing c*** like making their own software and just loading it up, that would be dangerous).

Yet, after seeing the coverage of the keynote, the one part of the iPhone that didn't get much in the way of improvement is, get this, the phone part! We see games. Oooh. We see better browsing, emailing, syncing calendars, emails, contacts (but, hey, what about those freakin' notes?????). But where's the expanded PHONE capabilities? Video-phoning (I have no need for it, but a lot of people keep bringing it up)? Speed dialing? Voice dialing? Anything?

(I figure we can forgive them on the voice dialing, since it would require some software to interpret speech. If only Apple had some kind of experience in that. Maybe they could buy it from someone else).

I have to ask why people want a 5MP camera in the iPhone, or why 2MP isn't good enough. You realize the only thing megapixels increase is the image size, and not the quality, right? Furthermore, what exactly are you doing with pictures that you take on your phone?

I bet most of you put them up on the web, and you have to reduce the picture size when you do it. So why do you need it to be 5MP in the first place?

You don't. The whole OMG 2MP ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH thing is ridiculous. If you want to take GOOD pictures, you won't be using your phone to do it. You'll be using a camera. If you want to take quick pics to upload, 5MP pictures are a waste of space since you have to downsize them anyway. Even 2MP pictures are generally too big and need to be downsized.