Top five iPhone gripes

My gripes:

1. No custom message sounds. Ringtones - Sure. But a Wookie delivering me a new email? Not a chance.

2. No Email Search. My boss sent me the conference call passcode on...

3. No Email Sort. ...wednesday...shit. Can't do that either.

Ah well, at least I won't lose any thumb wrestling contests after a week or so, nor will Chewie interrupt that conference call I was 5 minutes late for.

YOUR POST MADE NO SENSE...

so why does Apples Activation Fiasco Of This year bother you if you have an original Iphone? if you have an original Iphone then that fiasco wouldn't of affected you! come one now! lets make a REAL post.

Also,

you state that you dislike the recessed head jack, but that the iphone 3g has the reagular 3mm headphone jack, but you won't upgrade...

BOO WOO!

don't complain then...

WOW....

other than that your complaints are valid.. and quite overly complained about if you reall dislike it so much then why did you get an IPHONE?

what gripes me about iphone is when I go online to a site that I have to type in a password for. It won't let you type a capital letter in the password box & as some passwords are case sensitive you can't sign in.

Before my fiance got his 1st gen iphone we used to send random pictures through MMS to each other all of the time. Now that he has his iphone, I'm still using a basic phone and don't have email so our goofy messages have come to a halt. He thinks not having MMS sucks, but not enough to overshadow all of the iphone's other features. Personally, I'm just too big a fan of keeping in touch through random pictures of the day with my friends to get an iphone. So until apple adds MMS, I'll stick to the basics.

OK, I'm a newbie and a bit behind the curve as I post my first iphone rant. But am I the only one who didn't know about the ACTUAL pricing structure for the 3G-- that is, that the $199 price is only for current iphone users and those who aren't currently with AT&T?

I switched to AT&T last month in preparation for getting an iphone. Big mistake on my part, because Apple charges $399 for the 8G not $199. Had I waited until the day of purchase to switch carriers i would have saved $200. Does anyone else know this?

I even called AT&T and I am getting no sympathy.
Brad

Some more gripes:

1. No spare battery. The 3G is on its last legs by 6pm in a normal day. My old HTC handset had the same problem, but at least I could fit a spare battery before the 7pm networking event.

2. On the home screen, why does the calendar icon change with the current date, but the clock icon doesn't? And why doesn't the weather icon show the current weather?

3. Why is there no link from the location of calendar entries and the map feature? Again, no copy and paste means that looking up the location of an appointment is a memory test.

4. Where is the offline newsreader, like Egress for Windows? i.e. when I'm out of network coverage, say, for example, every weekday in the subway, is there anything on the device that I can actually read?

5. Why does the Exchange email service need to be online to move messages? Imap doesn't have this problem, nor does exchange email on windows devices.

No question, the iPhone is a great device, but when it comes to reading the news and managing my business email, my old HTC windows device was better.

I am interested to see how well the 3G Iphone works on cape cod. Judging by AT&T's 3G coverage map it looks pretty solid. I have stuck by verizon on the cape since my first cell and the iphone is the first thing to tempt me away from them. Keeps us updated if you decide to upgrade.

MMS can be annoying, but you can get around that by teaching people to send multimedia to your email instead of MMSing your phone number :/ and additionally, I hated being forced to use the overpriced ability to send a picture between phones versus you know, just hooking it up via USB to my computer and transferring photos, or you know, emailing them directly to someone [Which many MANY "normal" phones wont let you do whatsoever due to ATT wanting to milk you for every dime :3]

Of course, I'm "weird" for someone my age, because I dont care about MMS or Text Messaging (And in fact the only reason i HAVE the second is because the iPhone made me take it/i have stupid friends and wanted to cover my ass when one of them decides to text the shit out of my phone despite how much it irks me)

Personally, i dont give a shit if it has video, really, honestly, I'll buy a ^%&$ing camcorder thank you very much, I only use the camera in my cellphone for notes here or there (Instead of say, writing down the model number of something at say, Best Buy, I photograph the price tag thing) And could honestly do without it in lieux of a nice compact SLR

referring to these things as "Basics" is stupid, Basics on a CELL PHONE means it makes and receives calls with excellent call quality and battery life, two things my iphone has done just fine thank you very much, and its not like my previous phones were a cavalcade of mediocrity (Nokia's 3600 and E62 are included in the list, both of which were superb phones)

Personally, my complaint is just the lack of storage space, which i knew getting into the deal, so thats truthfully my fault (Buying an 8gb iphone when i had 6.5gbs of music is not the most truely intelligent thing i guess) And the lack of a hard foreward/back button for music (For when im in my car because i dont have a place to mount it in my peripheral vision to hit the buttons, a bluetooth remote would work as well, just some TACTILE way to go forward and back)

The one nobody mentioned is no email to groups. I stood in line 8 hrs Friday to get my shiny new toy. Was sitting at a baseball game and got an email I needed to forward to a group in my contacts list. ('Course I couldn't have done this from BB game a week ago but still...) I had to select the names one by one, s...l...o...w...l...y... and missed a coupla good plays. This could have been a quick forward, w/o missing a single pitch.

I'd pay big money for a simple envelope icon or message indicator on the top status bar. I hate that I have to quit an app and then slide back to the sms icon to see if there are new messages. I don't understand why they don't have this standard, useful UI feature.