iPhone Wishlist

So far, so good: the iPhone is certainly a lot of fun to use. Yes, the Internet over EDGE is slow, but at least I'm used to it: my Treo 650 wasn't any faster. But most of what I'm missing, can be done with a software update, which are supposed to come often and quickly, according to Steve Jobs. Here's my wish list:

• I have not problems with the on-screen keyboard, which I think it's not worth than the one of the Treo. As long as you type in English. In other language, I guess, the built-in intelligence works pretty much against you and even worse, the custom dictionary would fill up with non-English words, which hamper typing in English as well. So please come up with installable dictionaries in other languages. I can imagine that this is high on the priority list, not only to roll out iPhone in other regions, but also to support a large bi-lingual market in the US.


• In the sparse pre-launch information about the iPhone that came out of Apple, the calendar was always suspiciously missing. The reason is now obvious: the calendar application has the bare minimum functionality, far sub-par to what Palm and Windows Mobile are offering. No to do lists, no multiple calendars. I would expect at least the functionality of the iCal on the Mac.


• There's no way to put files on the iPhone, despite the fact that it can display PDFs and office documents. This means no attachments to e-mails and no reading on the go.
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• The iPhone would be an excellent e-book reader, if there was some software for it.


• For some inexplicable reason, e-mails cannot be read in landscape mode. This would help reading some HTML-formatted e-mails.