Don't get me wrong. I love so many things about my iPhone, but I am not a deluded fanboy that believes it's perfect in every way, and the ways it falls short are all part of Apple's master plan for global domination. I freely admit that there are many areas in which the iPhone pales behind Windows and Blackberry offerings. Indeed, my iPhone journey is still trails my former Windows Mobile experience on a Samsung Blackjack smartphone in several areas:
As for customising your start start screen to dpsplay agenda items, that is already possible through a third party app on the iPhone, but only if you jailbreak. That's close to a killer functionality for me, and if such an app isn't mooted soon through Apple-approved channels, I will probably go down the jailbreaking path as well.
As for Profiles, I have not heard of anyone working on this functionality. Does anyone know of a solution in the wings?
So many people complain about the absence of Copy&Paste on the iPhone, as if that's earth shattering functionality. It would be nice, but it is far less important that multi-tasking, a file system, folders for organising icons, a decent Bluetooth implementation and profiles. If Apple would address these issues, or allow 3rd party developers to do so, then maybe the world's leading smartphone would be as smart as those dumbass Windows smarphones have been for years.
- The native iPhone Calendar and Contacts functions trail 3rd party apps on Windows smartphones by a large margin, and we have no built in To Do functionality at all. Sure the windows native calendar was equally primitive, but we had been spoilt by apps such as Pocket Informant, AgendaFusion and AgendaOne, that had powerful Calendar, To Do and Contact management equal to or better than desktop apps
- There's still no true Microsoft Office compatibility on the iPhone. The third party app Documents to Go had provided the ability to view, edit and even creat office docs on the smartphone for years
- Powerful email fucntionality was at hand through the application Flexmail. I still don't believe it was a match for the Blackberry, but it was eons ahead of the basic mail apps built into Windows Mobile or the iPhone
- On the Windows phone I could customise my start screen with applications such as SBSH's Facade, in order to have all my Calendar and ToDos display on the home screen, without having to dig to find out the rudimentary things I needed to know for the day
- Profiles let me set volume, ringtone, and system characteristics quickly, a basic function of phones on other platforms for years. Instead I know have to dig into settings every time I get in and out of the car to adjust brightness, screen locking, etc. A veritable pain
- Windows phones have file systems that can be accessed, like any computer should have. Another "Doh" to Apple there
- On my Windows Mobile phone I could sensibly organise my apps into folders on the home screen for ease of access. On my iPhone I have 8.5 screens of icons which can't be put in folders, and life just isn't long enough to organise anything beyond screen 2. Apple's thinking here might have seemed good at the time, but that was before the AppStore encouraged us to run 150 different apps
- My Windows smartphone could do true multitasking. I could run Palringo in the background and be alerted in real time to incoming messages. I could keep my GPS running all the time or have a web page load in the background. I can't do these things on my newer, faster, more advanced iPhone.
- To be a serious road warrior, you need to be able to type without restriction. That's why I own a wonderful Think Outside Bluetooth Folding Keyboard. Only it won't work with the iPhone. Neither will my stabd alone BT GPS unit, because Apple chose to give us crippled Bluetooth. Can I say "Doh" again?
As for customising your start start screen to dpsplay agenda items, that is already possible through a third party app on the iPhone, but only if you jailbreak. That's close to a killer functionality for me, and if such an app isn't mooted soon through Apple-approved channels, I will probably go down the jailbreaking path as well.
As for Profiles, I have not heard of anyone working on this functionality. Does anyone know of a solution in the wings?
So many people complain about the absence of Copy&Paste on the iPhone, as if that's earth shattering functionality. It would be nice, but it is far less important that multi-tasking, a file system, folders for organising icons, a decent Bluetooth implementation and profiles. If Apple would address these issues, or allow 3rd party developers to do so, then maybe the world's leading smartphone would be as smart as those dumbass Windows smarphones have been for years.
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