So, in a short while here my phone will be upgrading from the iPhone 3G to the 3Gs.  It’s quite moment for me, there’s never really been a phone I’ve really wanted.  I’ve gone with the cheapest cause it did what I needed.  The iPhone has totally changed that.

However, it’s certainly not without it’s problems, as any phone is (don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, NO phone is perfect).  Here are most of my personal complaints.  I haven’t reviewed any other sites listing their complaints so there may actually be somethings I’mmissing simply because I don’t use those features or never even thoughts about wanting them.  Some of them I simply can’t believe were never included, ever!

• First, I wish they would stop marketing it as a phone.  Sure it has phone functions but it’s really more like a handheld computer.  They may increase their market if they start presenting it that way.  Of course, without the analytics data they’ve got I could be wrong and they could shrink their market.
• As a handheld computer one of it’s biggest missing components is Flash support in the web browser.   The only semi-valid theory I’ve heard for not including it is that itmight hurt their App Store sales.  Whatever!  Get off the pot and let it run already! 
• USB data transfer!   Seriously, it’s got gigs of space!  Let throw a few files on it to bring somewhere else.  Better yet, let me dump some .pdf files on it to read on the bus or while I’m having lunch by myself.  Oh wait, maybe Apple and Adobe just don’t get along…
• MP3 management!  This should really be a no brainer for all the touch screen iPods and iPhones.  Let me manage my MP3′s on the phone.  For example, the shuffle feature when I plug my iPod into my car is useless.  Maybe it’s the interface I have, but when I hearthe same damn song over and over, it would be nice to delete the song on the spot without having to connect to my computer.
• Photo management!  That’s awesome that you can take pictures with your phone, but why do they have to be dumped in one single folder?   Am I going to have to deal with this with Video too?  Why can’t I make new folders?  Why can’t I move photos from one folder to another?  Who didn’t that that would be useful?
• Select All.  When doing e-mail or cleaning up txt messages it is often easiest to just select all and then deselect the ones you want to keep.  But you can’t select all!  You have to scroll and select a few at a time for e-mails and can only do one at a time for txts!  What!?

Well, either that’s it or I’ve just gotten to tired to remember anything else.  Of course this little blog won’t help change things, but at least I vented!

Cheers!

Update – Newly peeved!  I started using the iPhone 3Gs headphones a while ago and they have some quite nice functionality and sound really good!  However, after decades of using headphones it’s dawned me. This is the 21st century.  Why do my headphones still have a wire?  So I went looking.  A bit.  For bluetooth headphones.  That double as a bluetooth headSET.  Yes, two different items in one package!  The headset is (oddly) inherently one sided.  Right ear or left ear.  Headphones are expected to be stereo.  Why can’t they be combined!? Moreover, why hasn’t APPLE of all companies provided this for their phone?  Did no one over there in the last few years think “Gee, I really like this but I wish I could get rid of the cord”?  Someone MUST have!  Come on Apple, enough picking your noses. Advance.  And while you’re advancing, drop the crap with Flash and let live where it needs to be please!