Don’t get me wrong we love the iPhone here at iTrinegy, it has loads of great features and you can actually read the attachments in emails!  But I have to say that in some areas it feels like work in progress…

Astonishing: no cut & paste, no search on emails.  Vital. Just look around the forums and you’ll see the comments and how people have tried to get around this.  It even seemed like Apple was originally saying we didn’t need these features!

Well, Apple have just announced V3.0 of the iPhone software and guess what, there they are: cut & paste, search (and not just emails either) and many more features like picture MMS and emails in landscape – oh yes I had forgotten about that one – great.   It’s arriving this summer apparently – yippee.

I haven’t delved deeply into the new features but it doesn’t seem like my other big gripe has been sorted – the ability to keep background applications running – particularly important for instant messengers which go up and down like the proverbial…  Yes, I know that you can currently jailbreak the iPhone to do this but for most people there are questions of warranty and legality surrounding that. And I don’t think that PUSH is the whole answer either. Why? – read on

Now we come on to battery life.  It’s really not very good at all.  I have to charge the iPhone every day or face embarrassingly running out of power.  One thing I’ve done to greatly improve this is to disable PUSH on emails instead going to a 15 minute fetch cycle.

Lastly a gripe on 3G Internet performance on the iPhone.  I don’t think this is an Apple issue though.  The number of times the iPhone has had 3G on its display but the performance of web page download has been atrocious.  If you read my previous post on the performance of mobile 3G you’ll have my view on 3G dongles.  Watch this space as we’ll be taking measurements on the iPhone and getting back to you with some numbers in a future post.