Well, Adobe (Macromedia) Flash to be exact.

Flash is ubiquitous on the web, and if Apple REALLY wants to surf the REAL web, then Flash needs to be available.

Adobe certainly supports it’s use on the iPhone.

What about you, Apple?

3G network.

Let’s face it, using AT&T’s Edge network to surf the web just sucks. Not unlike going to the bad old days of the modem (vs. today’s broadband). AT&T already offers 3G access, so availability is not an issue.

This gets a little tricky, though. Current 3G chips suck a lot of power – the iPhone’s battery life is already a weak point. Burdening it with 3G would make battery life completely unacceptable.

The good news is that new 3G chips are much less power hungry – in addition, one can assume that battery technology and battery life will improve over time.

Rumors also seem to indicate that a 3G-ready iPhone will come sometime this year.

Let’s keep our fingers crossed.

- Longer Battery Life
- Replaceable Battery

There, was that so hard?

My previous phone was a Samsung clamshell model, and it could go several days before needing a recharge.  I can go 3-4 days with the iPhone, but ONLY if I don’t use it.  If I make more than a few phone calls and use some of the other features, then I need to charge this puppy every day.

If viewing videos, whether they be movies, tv shows, or video podcasts, forget it – the iPhone gets its batteries sucked down in a few hours.

Now I understand partly why 3G was not included in this phone…….3G, with current chipset technologies, is a powerhog.

Now, this could all be easily solved, had Apple offered removable batteries!  Why, oh why, aren’t these available?  Is Apple really that fearful of losing control of batteries to 3rd party vendors?  Or would adding removable batteries add more width and heft to the slim phone?

Whatever the case, it’s a hassle for owners to have to send the phone in to Apple or drop them off at the Apple Store and wait for a replacement………..during which time you’re without a phone!  It’s also got to be a monumental hassle for Apple as well, to have to deal with battery replacement issues……..shouldn’t your techs be more focused on more serious customer issues?

Ok, even with these issues, I still love my iPhone.  Hopefully version 2.0 will address the battery issues.

Other issues?  More of those in future posts…………..

When I first got the phone, I was worried that web surfing under the Edge Network would be horrible. Well, yes. The Edge is slow, and if I were using the iPhone as a web-surfing appliance then I’d be very disappointed. I mainly use web-surfing as a last resort – for example, when I’m in a store and trying to comparison shop prices of a certain product.

Then again, if I’m in an office environment, or a multitude of Coffee Shops, then odds are high that I can get speedy Wi-Fi reception, and web surfing speed wouldn’t be an issue.

Would I like to surf with the speedier 3G network when I can’t get wi-fi? Sure.

But I’d much rather have other features FIRST, over 3G………and we’ll talk about those in another post.