After a good week’s worth of use, I’ve decided to keep the iPhone, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its fair share of problems or missing features. Most notable is its built in email client which is a terrific start, but falls short when compared to other mobile phone email clients.
My guess is that Apple has already heard most of these and my hope is that all of them will be addressed soon in updates.
Here’s my top 35 bugs and requested features/options, in no particular order. I’ll be updating this list as I discover more. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list… these are my own hot issues!
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| Section | Function | Request |
|---|---|---|
| Flaw | Interference | Fix GSM buzz in speakers |
| General | Feature | Add ability to highlight in order to copy/paste |
| General | Feature | Add voice dialing through speakerphone & BT headset |
| General | Feature | Add ability to customize the home screen (change order - remove icons) |
| Battery | Feature | Add ability to view more battery level detail (actual % full). The current tiny icon is not enough! |
| Audio | Ring tones | Add ability to specify custom ringtones for each alert (new mail - voicemail) |
| Audio | Ring tones | Add ability to specify custom ringtones for general calls |
| Audio | Ring tones | Add ability to specify custom ringtones for specific contacts |
| Weather | View | Be able to sort list |
| Weather | Add Location | If a location is not found there is no feedback |
| Weather | Add Location | Zip code picks nearest city not nearest weather point |
| Accounts | Inbox - add ability to easily jump to other email accounts | |
| Accounts | Add ability to specify signature on per-account basis | |
| Accounts | Add ability to specify reply-to email address | |
| Accounts | Add ability to bypass Inbox/Sent/Trash selection and go straight to Inbox | |
| Delete | Add ability to delete all or drag to select multiple emails | |
| Write | Add ability to BCc | |
| Write | Add ability to compose emails in landscape mode | |
| Read | Add ability to mark emails as read wout opening each one | |
| Read | Add ability to read emails in landscape mode | |
| Read | Add support for .WAV audio attachments | |
| Read | Add ability to save attachments - esp images for use in backgrounds | |
| Read | Bug: Reports 2.147 billion unread messages or -1 | |
| Camera | Feature | Add video capture capability |
| Camera | Feature | Add ISO/light sensitivy feature for night time photos |
| Camera | Photos | Add digital zoom feature |
| Camera | Add ability to send full size photos (not reduced) for photo hosting (Flickr) | |
| Safari | Page | Add support for Flash (could care less about Java) |
| Safari | Keyboard | Keyboard does not switch orientation when switching orientation |
| Safari | Cache | When going back one page page load is slow |
| Safari | Scroll | Long pages (eg. a blog with dozens of comments) it is cumbersome to get to the bottom |
| Notes | Zoom | Add pinch feature to zoom |
| Notes | Landscape | Add ability to compose/view in landscape mode |
| Notes | Fonts | Add ability to change font |
| Notes | Sync | Add ability to sync notes with PC/Mac |