In fact, Apple's announcements on Thursday seemed to say as far away from media as possible, so streaming was also left by the wayside. No support for AirTunes, no ability to stream music or video from your local Mac or PC. A brief comment by Steve Jobs at the beginning of the event alluded to users being able to create their own playlists, but that was about it for the iPhone's media functions. For now, third-party applications will have to continue to fill the void of what to do when you don't want to load all of your media on your device. --DM

Between our wishlist article and our , we had a laundry list of complaints about Mobile Mail. So we were happy to hear Steve Jobs mention multiple improvements to Mail--and even happier to see him actually demo the biggest one: a unified Inbox listing the incoming mail for all of your accounts. It's also easier to switch between Inboxes thanks to a new "fast inbox switching" feature that puts your Inboxes in the Accounts list. Other new features Jobs mentioned include the capability to view messages by thread and to open attachments in other apps.

But that's not all: If you happened to be in the audience Thursday, you would have seen the image to the right, which displayed a sampling of the "100 new user features" in iPhone OS 4, a few of which were welcome improvements to Mail: You'll be able to edit messages in your Outbox, file or delete messages directly in search results, choose larger fonts for reading messages, and choose the size of outgoing image attachments.

Not mentioned during the event were any of the other improvements we're hoping to see: the capability to send e-mail to contact groups, to mark all messages as read, to flag messages for later action, to create and edit folders (and Smart Folders) on the device, to configure multiple signatures (or at least a different signature for each account), or more options for formatting and reading messages. --DF

We wanted support for Bluetooth keyboards on the iPhone and iPod touch, support for , and more Bluetooth-data features. Apple only briefly touched on Bluetooth, although that mention warmed our little hearts: iPhones OS 4 will bring the iPad's support for Bluetooth keyboards to the iPhone and iPod touch. As for the rest, we'll have to wait and see. --DF