Favorite iPhone apps: Giles' take

What I can't believe is the amount of crap and duplicate crap that gets accepted into the app store. Only about 20% of it is worth looking at, and a significant amout less is worth having on your phone. Why does apple have such lax requirements for this? Just to say theres XX thousand apps in the app store?

SMS still needs some work. I love the conversation view, but as others have said, it currently lacks a lot of the functionality that you'll find on most other phones, such as: ability to delete single messages, ability to save single messages, ability to forward messages, ability to send a contact as a text message. My thought is that they make it so that when you hold your finger on a message for a second, a list of options comes up (Save, Forward, etc.). It would work like MobileSafari's ability to save images.

i think the SMS function needs improving. I would like to be able to delete single messages and not just whole conversations. Also, I would like to be able to see how many letters I have written in the text. And did anybody mention COPY/PASTE?

Cube Runner is for me as well, the only app I keep returning to. It's simply brilliant. Litterally!

i think the SMS function needs improving. I would like to be able to delete single messages and not just whole conversations. Also, I would like to be able to see how many letters I have written in the text. And did anybody mention COPY/PASTE?

Cube Runner is for me as well, the only app I keep returning to. It's simply brilliant. Litterally!

are yall crazy the SMS sucks on the iphone i hate the predictive and its only there because apple knows that you're going to mistype by pressing other keys. They don't even give you the option of turning it off. I hate that every message isn't timestamped and you cant erase certain messages as I could do all this with my old treo 650. This is iphones biggest flaw besides the typical copy/paste, MMS, etc.

SMS is designed well with its conversation view. It's something that I was used to on the treo 650 that I am glad showed up on the iPhone. I agree with others here that say the on-screen keyboard needs improvement. I find that a lot of times I'm going back and forth from numbers to symbols to letters just to type in a URL into the browser. The "context sensitive" keyboard should be a little more "context sensitive" and show me the "@" and "//" symbols right up front on the main keyboard when I'm in safari.

I find that I can type an SMS better with the iPhone one-handed than with my previous mobile, Nokia 6670. The text prediction helps eliminate alot of the accuracy issues if you're entering typical words. As another poster said, no need to type "l8r" when "later" is just as easy

@glad

I do agree, the predictive does help with not sending text slang
and the listing is great
Just don't like the whole keyboard

I am in agreement with Giles, SMS is superb and it actually has stopped me writing things like l8r when Later will do. Also I love the way in which sms is listed to the person and that phone number.

First! Yay!

Totally disagree, I think the SMS app is awful, well I say the SMS app, I mean the whole onscreen keyboard thing. Awful for if you are on a bus or in a car. it's much easier to wrap your hand around a n95 and writing messages and emails is easier.