[DaveF]

For all the love of the new iPhone, it seems there's equal annoyance and disappointment with it. I'm curious what people think it needs -- not necessarily an "I wish..." list, but what important feature is lacking that keeps you from upgrading or leaves you disappointed with the whole affair.

I'm really impressed by the iPhone. I lust for one. But being married and having a budget, I don't see it in my future. Were cash not a concern, the one major roadblock is AT&T. Until the iPhone is available on Verizon, I doubt I'd go for it, even if I found an extra $1000 to spend on a phone.

After that, lack of Cut-and-Paste, no syncing for Notes ,and no ToDo app seem braindead to me. But I want a fully integrated PDA / phone more than phone with a killer web browser.

[Ted Todorov]

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Originally Posted by DaveF

I'm really impressed by the iPhone. I lust for one. But being married and having a budget, I don't see it in my future. Were cash not a concern, the one major roadblock is AT&T. Until the iPhone is available on Verizon, I doubt I'd go for it, even if I found an extra $1000 to spend on a phone.

Dave, if Verizon is a support is a show-stopper for you (and if AT&T service is bad in your neck of the woods, I certainly understand), don't bother with the other stuff, because Verizon availability isn't happening: Verizon CEO to Steve Jobs: Drop Dead

El Jobso isn't known for his sense of humor. Unless Verizon fires CEO Ivan Seidenberg and does major groveling -- no iPhone for them. (There is a precedent -- Pixar refused to renew with Disney until they got rid of Eisner who had also dissed Apple/Jobs in various ways).

[ErichH]

Dave - cut and paste is one of a number of items that will happen via the store - iClarified - Apple News - MagicPad Features Copy and Paste for iPhone
It's possible they think the calender & contacts are enough of a PDA. I'll bet there are plenty of devs who have just what you want, but are waiting in the approve que.

I hate all carriers, so mum

My main hold at this point is QC.

[Joseph Bolus]

Since you can already create appointments --- and even sync them with your office --- I don't see the absence of a "To-Do" list as a show stopper. (Heck you could just enter them into a note ...). In any event, with the "App Store" up now you can be sure that any perceived lack of functionality will be fillled by a third-party developer.

The only real deficiency of the iPhone is the lack of an ability to switch out the batteries.

[DaveF]

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Originally Posted by Joseph Bolus

Since you can already create appointments --- and even sync them with your office --- I don't see the absence of a "To-Do" list as a show stopper. (Heck you could just enter them into a note ...). In any event, with the "App Store" up now you can be sure that any perceived lack of functionality will be fillled by a third-party developer.

The only real deficiency of the iPhone is the lack of an ability to switch out the batteries.

While not a killer for me, ToDo is quite different from calendar appointments. See a Palm PDA for the relationship between a calendar and good ToDo list.

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Dave - cut and paste is one of a number of items that will happen via the store - iClarified - Apple News - MagicPad Features Copy and Paste for iPhone

I don't understand. Is it copy and paste within the app? Or is an app giving c/p to all iPhone apps? That doesn't make sense. Imagine if OS X had no Copy & Paste, and you had to choose among competing apps with different copy/paste methods to get it (partially) working on your system. It's just a bad approach.

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Dave, if Verizon is a support is a show-stopper for you (and if AT&T service is bad in your neck of the woods, I certainly understand), don't bother with the other stuff, because Verizon availability isn't happening: Verizon CEO to Steve Jobs: Drop Dead

It's like switching banks: I could do it if sufficiently motivated, but there's not enough reason yet. V's CEO's comments: crazy!

[DavidJ]

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Originally Posted by DaveF

While not a killer for me, ToDo is quite different from calendar appointments. See a Palm PDA for the relationship between a calendar and good ToDo list.

This has been one of my few complaints with the the iPhone and OS X for that matter. I actually prefer MS Outlook's way of handling tasks. Since I prefer the Mac and use an iPhone, I've tried to adapt to Calender, but it is clunky and doesn't work the way I'd like it to work.

[ErichH]

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Originally Posted by DaveF

I don't understand. Is it copy and paste within the app? Or is an app giving c/p to all iPhone apps? That doesn't make sense. Imagine if OS X had no Copy & Paste, and you had to choose among competing apps with different copy/paste methods to get it (partially) working on your system. It's just a bad approach.

I agree. It does serve as another notice to Apple (hopefully) The real thing would be global in the system - no app.

[Ted Todorov]

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Originally Posted by ErichH

I agree. It does serve as another notice to Apple (hopefully) The real thing would be global in the system - no app.

Apple are well aware of that and they are working on copy/paste -- it just hasn't made it in yet.

[Ronald Epstein]

The rumor right now is that Apple has one final iPhone release
planned for late next year that will be the "ultimate" phone that
everyone had hoped for. It should also be out in time for the next
broadband upgrade (4G?).

Consider this only rumor.