Forbes’ Brian Caulfield took some time and examined the iphone from a different perspective, looking for what could make the iPhone a total dissapoinment. Caulfield named 7 of what he considers the bigger drawbacks of the little and cute iphone:

Here they are:
The Cost
No Flash
No Replaceable Batteries
Video Recording
No Cut-And-Paste
No Multimedia Messaging Service
No Voice Dialing

Cost
Apple wants to reach a bigger audience, AT&T can help, but in the end a two year contract will give you the fresh new 3G iphone for a price. Nothing is free on earth.

No Replaceable Batteries
I really don’t understand the reasons for not providing a replaceable battery iphone, but this is Steve Jobs, he is always running riding the horses.

No Flash
For Steve Jobs Adobe’s Flash is not ready for primetime on the iPhone and he is trying not to depend on Adobe for multimedia-rich websites on the iphone, instead of pushing SproutCore. In the other hand, Adobe is testing Flash at full speed.

No Video Recording
Video recording is a plus and all of my friends criticize the iphone because its lack of video features. Apple is a video hardware and software supplier company and there is not reason on earth for Apple not to inlcude a small video application that get synced with iMovie or Quicktime.

No Cut and Paste
Again, cut and paste has been in all Apple OSes since day one and you bet that the Os has this features turned off on purpose, maybe you don’t need it for make a phone call, but for text rich email and websites, text is ultra neccesary.

No Multimedia Messaging Service
Multimedia is the heart of Apple and this is a shame that the iPhone lacks of MMS. Come on Apple.

No Voice Dialing
Again and again, Voice recognition is one of Mac OS X advantages over rivals, it works perfectly and in mobile phone voice dialing is almost standards in every smartphone and in not so smart phones. The reason for the iPhone to lack in Voice Dialing is something that we won’t ever know, but sooner than later this feature will be added.

Brian has some good points with his article and while the iPhone is something totally different from other phones, it is always important to provide those good features that come standards in others.

Read Brian Caulfield article at Forbes

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