iPhone rocks, but looking forward to new revisions

So I got my iPhone activated two days ago. It is excellent as everyone says. Its also not prohibitively large compared to my old Nokia 6230.

One very interesting thing I find is that because it is so good, you expect it to be perfect. You expect so much more out of it than you did for previous phones, not so much because of the hype but because it is much more like a personal computer than a phone.

As a result there are lots of things you can do now that you couldn’t do before easily, but a lot of desktop-OS glue is missing. For example:

• Mail does not show/allow flagging even for IMAP mails that already have it.
• Mail does not have a search facility
• Mail does not have a junk filter (understandable… but problematic means you need it on your server now)
• Mail does not work in landscape mode.
• Mail always top-posts
• No copy and paste – e.g. can’t get links from Safari into an e-mail you are sending
• No multiselection in any of the apps, i.e. tracks or emails or bookmarks. Easily done as the paradigm for this is set with the "Edit" button in Mail – an alternate list view that does not show items when clicked but allows actions to be performed on them
• No apparent way to delete photos from the "Film roll"
• No ringtones available in UK iTunes Music Store (?!)

Other pet peeves so far is the inability to put DivX videos into it even though Quicktime+iTunes play them on the desktop, and the complete lack of SMS distribution lists, Bluetooth OBEX for exchanging vCards and no Bluetooth GSM Modem.

Don’t get me wrong, the phone is a quantum leap and I love it. It’s just interesting that they put it out with so many standard phone features missing. Hooray for updates is all I can say… let’s hope there are some good ones in the pipeline.