Hmm ... that does seem a little off, doesn't it?

Those are my thoughts.

Cut and paste is the holy grail for some. Personally, I want remote Front Row/iTunes/Apple TV control! (Remote like over the 'net!)

1 - Cut and Paste 2 - MMS 3 - Landscape keyboard 4 - Real mail support 5 - Functional camera Aside from the removable battery (which will never happen) the rest (eBooks, LBS, etc.) are just apps - I'm sure there'll be another Wait-a-Thon for the big post-3G-app-drop, so we can all predict those...

I MUST be able to use exchange...and since I have more that one e-mail account that is critical to my daily activities...a simpler interface to toggle between e-mail accounts.

1. My biggest surprise from using the current iPhone is, I can't tell it's in my pocket. Light + small + flat = POCKETABLE. Don't lose this indispensable feature of the current phone.

2. I downloaded some of my favorite music videos to the iPhone, but it was pretty pointless. Definitely need a VGA screen. Also, I will never put this phone in a case, but I would be interested in a landscape-oriented dock. I don't want to hold the phone while watching a video, and it is pointless to watch a video in "portrait" orientation.

3 and 4. I would love to see better iPhone-Google apps integration, along with a better "data terminal" experience. For starters, give me a landscape keyboard.

1. The iPhone's camera sucks. 2GB sensor, decent lens, auto-focus, flash, auto-white balance are minimum requirements for a camera phone. I am not sure you can do this well without building a separate "camera phone" model, but I would upgrade to a decent camera iPhone in a minute. I do not need a video iPhone.

Push, of course, would be a very welcome addition (for us non-Exchange users that is). That said, the iPhones beautiful rendering of HTML email makes waiting 15 minutes almost worth it when compared to the ugly as sin way Berrys handle stripping down HTML email to plain text.

I do need to say that when I had my iPhone, I never had more than one email account on it, so I don't know the difficulties it presents. I just know that if I was forced into a catch all mailbox, I would be irritated.

1. Completely agree. Some things just take too many clicks.

2. The problem is that Windows Mobile usually ends up with TOO MANY settings, and it can become extremely overwhelming for majority of the users that couldn't care less about the aforementioned settings and just want it to work. Windows Mobile is one of the most overwhelming and confusing mobile OS's for the non techie user ever created and a large reason for that is the settings for EVERYTHING. It can be nice to have such control, but it can also lead to problems galore; so I agree that if this change were to be made, it would need to be at the discretion of the user through the toggling of some kind of "advanced" switch.

Also, the configurability of the WinMo platform also relates to how it is just that, a platform that is shoehorned into thousands of different devices. Some of those settings are required to make it a more stable and usable OS, others are required to de-uglify the GUI, and some are required to break out and around the carrier placed limitations. The problem is that all this mixing and matching of different settings and different customization are part of the reason WinMo is so unstable. Granted, a competent user doesn't usually have the same problems the not so competent have, but if you ask me, you should have to study the OS, and how to work it, of your mobile phone to have a decent user experience. For that, Apple should be praised and there lack of customization is probably why the iPhone is such a stable and joyous thing to use.

I agree with you to a point, because of my WinMo-tweaker roots, but I don't think its worth risking stability and usability over.

1. I personally have never had the pleasure of using an N95 for any picture taking/video taking goodness, so I can't really comment. I do, however, agree 1000% that the iPhone needs a better camera w/ flash and video recording capabilities, as well as an MMS client to send these pics and vids with. Integrated ability to stream to the net is extremely subjective though, and if it was never added, I wouldn't even notice. Not saying that is a reason to not add it, but it really is a subjective addition that some people will love and many won't look twice at.

2. Aren't the cloud services essentially the same thing as Web Apps? I am not 100% following you on this one, so I won't go too far on comments. I get the location based stuff, but the cloud services stuff I don't. I personally think anything that relies on a data connection is iffy. I know you said it can be accessed without the web, but it is going to be limited access, otherwise there is no reason to not just install the app on the device. I will stop it there though, because I am not "in the know" about these cloud services enough to really talk about them, but they do sound strikingly similar to the existing Web Apps.