A unified mailbox coming to the iPhone -- what a concept!

I have been testing the beta for 2 days now and have confirmed unified contacts...

Now just include text messages in the inbox and we're all set...

How about call recording?

It's something I miss from using on my old Sony Ericsson. I used to regularly record calls to clients to make sure I had something to back up any statements made or deals agreed upon.

And of course the obvious - Multi-tasking for third party apps.

I don't care if you don't need it.... because I DO!
Currently multi-tasking using Kirikae and backgrounder to (acceptably) do the job, but a native OS version would be much more stable and knowing Apples love for all things simple, would no doubt be much easier to use than the current solution.

What I'd like to see is per account signatures. That way, I can send from my personal account without having all my work details in the sig.

For those of you who look forward to a unified mailbox on the iPhone, why wait? I have a unified inbox on my iPhone today. I set up an anonymous gmail account as an Exchange server with push on my iPhone. I forward all my accounts to the gmail account.

To send mail from different email addresses, just set up POP accounts on the iPhone for each email address using invalid POP server and login information. Be sure to set Fetch to manual for each POP account.

I get access to the same unified mailbox on my Mac. I set up OS X Mail (Leopard and Snow Leopard both work) to access the gmail account using IMAP for real time use, and, I also set up a second account in OS X Mail for the same gmail address as a POP account to regularly archive all messages (except trash and spam) to my local machine - if gmail fails I still have a copy of all my messages.

If I need to access mail and I don't have access to my Mac or iPhone, I can still access everything using the gmail web site and anything I do there will sync with both my Mac and iPhone as soon as they are back on the internet.

By the way, you can also set up push calendars and contacts through Google using the same account on the iPhone and push calendars to iCal on your Mac. You can also see all of your calendar information using Google Calendar, just plan on using iCal or OS X Mail to respond to invitations, Google calendar and the gmail web site do not decode iCal invitations sent as attachments in email messages.

You can find set up instructions for pushing Google services here: http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/

By the way, I do not work for Google, I just use some of their services. This is the first time I have ever added a comment. I hope someone finds it useful. I cut my time spent on mail by half since going to this set up a couple of months ago.

Good Luck!

- Brian

No SD card slot is a deal killer for me.

Haven't you learned by now, "missing features are not a problem, they are a market strategy"

Now watch. This is going to be some kind of half-assed unified inbox implementation that will piss off even more people...

Not to beat a dead horse, but: Flash, Flash, Flash

I saw a TV demo for a new 4G smartphone on Sprint this week that had Flash support. Maybe it's just me, but as a photographer I'd like to be able to view photography websites, which almost all are built with Flash galleries.

I do love my iPhone. But I think this is a deal killer for me regarding the iPad...

I get all my mail on my Iphone via Google imap not a problem.