Geek & Mild by Sean Sperte

iPhone Software Quirks

For the sake of argument, and posterity, I’m going to keep a running list of the iPhone’s quirks which could potentially be fixed by software updates:

• No widescreen in SMS or Mail apps
• No MMS app
• Camera shutter is sluggish
• Passwords are immediately masked on input – making it hard to ensure accuracy
• No spam filtering, as reported by John Gruber [possibly fixed, 070807]
• No Exchange Server support (beyond using the IMAP protocol)
• No To-Do’s [added 070701]
• No Chat/IM [added 070701]
• No voice activation/dialing [added 070701]
• No custom ringtones [added 070701] Sort of fixed
• Camera doesn’t record video [added 070701]
• Takes too many steps to make a call [added 070701]
• No multiple-SMS recipiants [added 070702] Fixed
• No cut/paste [added 070704]
• Notes do not sync [added 070704]
• Cannot delete multiple emails at once [added 070706]
• Cannot send a contact’s information via text (or no “Send Contact” option) [added 070707]
• Cannot save images/files received via email [added 070727]
• Launching SMS app is sluggish [added 070929]

[Disclaimer: While perhaps critical in nature, this list is not a knock on the iPhone or Apple. If I were to compile a similar list for any other mobile phone on the market, it’d likely push into the hundreds. So don’t go there on me.]

30-Jun 2007