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BGR brings the pain: ten things wrong with the iPhone

Yesterday's Boy Genius Report post citing the top ten deficiencies of the iPhone (no copy & paste, no video recording, and more) has generated more than 100 responses, some suggesting a fix for many failings (jailbreak the phone) and others hopping on the Blackberry or Palm Pre bandwagons in the hope that competition for the iPhone will spur more software innovation from Apple. While the App Store may be the hottest thing since that soldering iron you accidentally left turned on that ignited your Dad's workbench (and that's why you're not allowed in the garage anymore), even the sneakiest third-party developers can't effectively replace what Apple has failed to provide.

Given the sense of pent-up frustration from some (but not all) iPhone 3G owners over a laundry list of things the phone doesn't do, or doesn't do well, here's your chance to cheer or castigate Apple in the hopes of a brighter day to come. Vote in our poll and comment below with your top priorities for improvements -- or, if you're a happy camper, your favorite feature of today's iPhone.

Based on the Boy Genius Report top-ten, which iPhone failing irks you most?
No custom notification sounds437 (5.3%)
Copy & paste. Dude. Really.3548 (42.9%)
No unified inbox483 (5.8%)
No video recording1055 (12.8%)
Can't forward SMS618 (7.5%)
File structure isn't user-accessible355 (4.3%)
Push services still not here1146 (13.9%)
A different choice from the BGR list202 (2.4%)
None of the above, leaving a comment421 (5.1%)


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Jacqueline

No Landscape SMS, No Flash

February 27 2009 at 12:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
casey

I WISH SAFARI WOULD STOP CRASHING ALL THE TIME!

January 26 2009 at 2:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Paul Griffith

I'm surprised to not find my specific complaint on this list. I want to use my phone as a handsfree voice recorder, using my Jawbone headset. Third-party apps cannot access bluetooth headsets. Thus, I'm screwed. Others have mentioned Bluetooth issues (like accessing the Bluetooth stack) so I assume it's part of a larger problem.

I've written a complaint letter, any suggestions on the best conduit to send it to Apple? Any good places to post it as an open letter (ie open forums)?

January 26 2009 at 11:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Greg

MMS picture messaging!! Everyone has it these days, except for us iPhone users.
It's a huge pain in the butt having to logon to a website to retrieve a picture message that someone sends to me.
It's even more of a pain in the butt having to try and figure out what someone's phone's MMS email address is so that I can send them my pictures messages.

January 26 2009 at 10:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
phlexx1

In short I gave my Iphone back to AT&T because of the following:
Speaker phone volume is considerable poor compared to my blackberry volume, typing in landscape in email and text without use of 3rd party application, battery life not good compared to my blackberry which can go 3 or more days instead of half a day.

Summary:
First let me say the iphone is pretty dang cool for a phone and it was hard for me to give it back! I get the ipod touch instead and will wait for a better version of the iphone. Im a business professional who's job is to talk and send emails on my phone all day. Since I fly around the country several times a year I get really bored but never cared about listening to music on my phone until now. I dig that I can put all my music on my phone and flip through the music covers in seconds, check the weather to where im flying and use wi-fi when outside network. Im a Blackberry 8700 user which is an older wide model Blackberry. I've had my iphone 30 days and being a person who conducts business 24/7 on the phone and via email I missed the physical keyboard that my particular Blackberry has between each key which is better than current Blackberry's like curve or bold. So I hope apple comes out with a slider iphone and improves the speaker phone volume so i can conduct conference meetings.

Things like copy and paste, holding the letter key down to captilize that letter, typing with a wide keyboard for emails and text, and being able to perform a "delete all" when theres a 100 emails in the inbox at 1 time instead of individually selecting them is really important to a Blackberry user.

January 25 2009 at 11:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rainer

I miss the possibility to connect AV-cable to TV to play games (Asphalt4, etc.) that use the accelerator sensor. Would be perfect to use iPhone (or iPod Touch) as the steering wheel but watching on TV. Why not possible yet; movie and pics work...!

January 24 2009 at 11:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
john

The camera is too slow. Or is that because I have several hundred photos in my camera roll? Still, that shouldn't matter.

January 23 2009 at 10:55 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
xo0m

copy and paste please. I know you can get it via jailbreak, but it should be built in for pete's sake!

January 22 2009 at 11:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
colouroflight

#11. Existing AT&T customers without an upgrade get screwed into paying $499 instead of $299. This phone should've been sold unsubsidized just like the last one.

January 22 2009 at 10:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Flo

My Top 3 drawbacks:
* Lack of full-featured Bluetooth!
* Copy and Paste
* Missing Push services

January 22 2009 at 10:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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