iPhone 2.0 bashing

...or why iPhone 2.0 isn't really 2.0. So I thought I may as well jump on the bandwagon and have a dig at Cupertino's latest.

So, the usual fanfare and quasi-religious fervour reached fever pitch and culminated with Jobs' anti-climactic announcement of "iPhone 2.0".

So what? Big wow. So they fixed a few things that they should have included in the initial release - that does not warrant a major version increment! iPhone 2.0 really should have been 1.1. We got: 3G, GPS, better battery life, flush headphone jack, more storage and lower price. Not really a 2.0 feature set, would you say? Lots of people wanted more.

Let's look at my Top Ten list of what the iPhone still DOESN'T do...

1. No decent camera - still puny 2MP
2. No video capture (what? the youtube generation ignored?)
3. No front facing video camera - no video calling
   
4. No landscape Keyboard - wasting valuable screen real-estate making using prod in portrait only
5. No choice in Networks! Still locked to a handful of operators! How 1990's is that. C'mon get with the program
6. No Bluetooth Audio streaming - wake up! A2DP is here! No Bluetooth File-Transfer!
   
7. (laughable) No "Copy & Paste". What? Even my Psion Series3 from 1991 did that seamlessly across applications!
8. No MMS. Again, something the rest-of-the-world has been crazy about since around-2000 but again, apple have chosen to ignore.
   
9. No way for the iPhone to act as a 3G modem for Laptop. D'oh!
   
10. No expandable storage.

Still better off with an N95 8GB on any network you choose!