Because now that we’re paying premium for the iPhone, these missing and much-requested features will make the deal harder to swallow — at least for those who haven’t set their minds to buying it.
5 – Wireless syncing.
Now that the iPhone has both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless capabilities, it’s a wonder that they didn’t take advantage of them. So, you’re still required to directly connect the iPhone to your computer via the dock connector. Sure, wireless sync may have been slow for videos, but just about perfect for everything else. Now how about they fix that in a future update, and perhaps even add a mobile access to the iTunes Store?
4 – Flash support.
Good thing that Apple made this alliance with Google, because the iPhone seems not to support flash. Thanks to that alliance, Google converted its entire YouTube library to the h.264 video encoding just so that Apple’s products can view them. But if you’re looking to view anything else that’s flash in the internet, chances are you will not be able to. This only hurts Apple’s publicity, where they claim you’re able to browse the web in all its glory from your iPhone.
3 – True mobile office.
It was a big surprise when Apple showed that the iPhone can read Word, Excel, and PDF docs that are attached to your mail. But how about making quick edits to them? Or even starting new docs, right there on your iPhone? Frankly, I’m amazed that Apple isn’t adding a mobile iWork suite to the iPhone. Then again, they may be saving it for later and charge you some bucks for it. Apple is only losing business clients with this.
2 – Swappable battery.
Even though Apple may have upped the battery life specs for the iPhone, the option of having swappable batteries would’ve been a real treat for all power users. I guess Apple was confident that just because it worked (to some degree) with the iPod, it would be the same for the iPhone. But thanks to that decision, there’s now a market for charge packs that connect via the iPhone’s dock connector.
1 – Real third-party development.
This one’s where it hurt most to the developers. Just as it may be true that Web 2.0 apps are here to stay, many would’ve still preferred direct access to the iPhone’s system. Just imagine the power of having such apps like Delicious Library go mobile — not necessarily meaning that said version was ever planned. But there’s already a request to port Frenzic to the iPhone. The ball’s now in Apple’s side of the court.
I really hope that Apple has a couple of more surprises for the iPhone, just waiting to be revealed before launch.
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by Galley
26 Jun 2007 at 05:47
It would be awesome if the iPhone could act as a portable ?tv.
by Frank
26 Jun 2007 at 07:03
Yeah, it’d be awesome if someone figured this out. At the very least, IPTV would be a real bonus — since the iPhone’s storage is limited when compared to the video iPods.
by Toasty!
26 Jun 2007 at 18:00
It Supports flash. Just not YouTube flash video.
by Frank
26 Jun 2007 at 20:20
It doesn’t support Adobe Flash, as Walt Mossberg mentions in his review (mentioned at the bottom). But he did mention that most software drawbacks can be fixed with future updates, though.
by Iestyn
27 Jun 2007 at 07:19
For me to get one, it really needs to be able to record voice calls. i do this all the time with my Sony Ericsson to save writing notes.
by Frank
27 Jun 2007 at 11:36
As far as we’ve seen from Apple’s videos, that’s one feature that’s oddly missing…
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