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Nine really frustrating things about the iPhone

24.10.2008
I've been an iPhone user for all of a month now. I love the iPhone. It's a great device that lets me do virtually anything I can do on my laptop, from virtually anywhere I happen to be. And yes, I know that everybody is raving about it. But that doesn't mean that it's perfect.

There are nine things that I find frustrating about my iPhone. In no particular order, here they are:

1. Only one application can run at a time. When the Google application bounces me over to Safari, it closes. When I return to it, I have to start all over again, rather than being able to just refine the previous search.

2. No copy and paste. If I have to go back and start from scratch, at least let me copy my previous search and paste it back in.

3. Battery life. I know that this is just a fact of life that I (and every other iPhone owner) will have to accept and deal with. Still, it's very frustrating -- when I text someone, I can almost see the battery gauge decrease.

4. The Apple applications that actually control core features -- the phone, SMS, and camera -- apparently can't be replaced, even if some indie developer were to cook up something better using the iPhone SDK. Though these apps are usable, they lack features that I previously had on my three-year-old el cheapo Siemens handset.