iPhone 101: Quickly delete videos

I think this feature is pretty useful for me. I don't use syncing; I manually manage all of my stuff because there are usually only about 20 songs I listen to at a time, and the videos have on it are either YouTube videos, or a TV show episode or movie I haven't watched yet. I can delete a TV show or movie now without my computer after I have watched it. This is good news for me, considering that I have a jailbroken iPod and am always installing new applications.

i stumbled on this one while browsing the anime series on my touch, has proved to very useful to me. But its great that it gets a mention on here as well now ;)

Gene Cowan you are mistaken. There is no Hard Disk Drive but there is a Solid State Drive. Either way it makes little difference. There is also a seprate 512MB RAM for system memory that is not used for storage. Performance is not slowed down by content in the iPhone.

This is a great feature, and it looks snazzy when the delete icon comes up I don't like having to sync just to delete files that I'm done with (ie, taking a movie to a friend's house to watch via Video-Out).

Is this possible with synced photos as well? It bothers me that one can delete photos that are taken with the iPhone camera, but the delete icon is absent for photos in other folders.

I wish that Apple would give me a reason to delete videos on the go - by making audio and video podcasts available wirelessly in the mobile iTunes store.

"There *is* a reason to delete videos when you're finished."

No one is debating that there is no reason.

The question is, how important is it to delete videos on the go? I'm never more than 10 hours away from docking my iPhone anyways. Besides, as soon as I dock the first thing the iPhone does is start to resynch my videos, and if I have deleted them on the go, it RELOADS them.

There *is* a reason to delete videos when you're finished. If you completely fill up your iPhone with videos it will slow down performance. After freeing up the memory by deleting videos you've watched, it speeds up again. Remember, there's no hard disk in the iPhone, just memory.

The 1.1.1 update not only removed the automatic "Do you want to delete?" prompt, but it introduced what I think is a bug:
Before the update, when I watched a video and deleted it, it marked the video as watched in iTunes at the next sync. Now, if I delete a video before syncing the phone, it doesn't remember and mark it as watched so iTunes will re-load the same video onto my iPhone again.
The original behavior was much better and, well, just worked. The new way is confusing and annoying and requires me to manually mark things in iTunes rather than let it automagically load up the iPhone with stuff.
This is far more irritating that I would have expected now that I've lived with it for months.

I always forget to remove videos when I'm syncing, so this is great way for me to delete videos straight after I've viewed them, especially given my experience with the erratic way videos are kept or removed after being watched or half-watched.

'New' is so much more ambiguous than 'unplayed'. And I don't understand how a Podcast can be both/either... :(

@Mfs
What you can do is click the box next to the movie you want to upload again in your movie folder summary in iPhone Sync. Or go into Movies in iTunes and highlight the movie and right click it and tell iTunes to "make new" again. I don't think that will effect your play count. BUT it will make the movie available. Easy way? It is all in your perspective.

Hope that helps.
Cheers.