In a word, multitasking. It’s the 21st century. The era of the uniprocess computing device ended years ago. It doesn’t necessarily need to provide RPC; even if it was a faux-multitasking that just saved application state so you didn’t lose your work when a phone call came in. Something similar to MultiFinder from the mid-80’s genre of Macs would do just fine.
A better e-mail app, at least better notifications. As a former Blackberry user, I miss the ability to assign different notification ‘ringtones’ to each email address, and then a separate tone for high priority emails. I cannot believe that your only choice for an email tone is the default, or none. Yes, I realize this can be done with a jailbroken phone, but I actually use my phone for semi-important things, and don’t want to run the risk of bricking it.
And that’s it. I love my iPhone, and the two items above are the only blemishes I could find. Here’s hoping there really is an iPhone 4.0 lurking out there that solves these issues…
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