People seem to put way to much weight into the iPhones camera. If your truly into photography as I am – you would not use a phone – plain and simple! Sure I’d use my iPhone to take a picture on the fly – however generally speaking id use my canon G10.

A camera on the front for video chat would be a nice

What’s a block the kick? It is an effort to do such a good job of persuading your core constituency (in this case, developers, consumers, carriers) that any perceived momentum of the competition (read: Android, Palm Pre) pales in comparison to your own that you block the competition’s nascent momentum in its infancy.

Apple is just running up the score, lest the competition find its footing with developers, something I blogged about in:

Analysis of iPhone 3.0 SDK Developer Preview
http://bit.ly/ANdMz

Check it out if interested.

Mark

I don’t think tethering would put all that much added load onto the networks.

My case is probably typical. I’m hooked up to the internet via cable or DSL most of the time at home or office. I use my 3G iPhone connection when in the car, at a restaurant, or some other place.

Tethering wouldn’t get much use but it would be nice to have in situations like these: Cable network at home goes down for a few hours or a few days; renting a vacation home for the weekend that doesn’t have internet; on a Saturday fishing trip in Galveston Bay and need to check a few things in my database at work.

I don’t need 3G wide area laptop access very often. Certainly not often enough to justify another monthly AT&T contract and Express Card for my laptop. The need is fairly rare but it would be very nice to have on those occasions.

By the way, I have used tethering on a Nokia N70. It runs down the battery at a fast clip. You really need to have the cell phone sitting on a charger when you do it. That’s another reason it wouldn’t be used a lot.

Apple may have even said to the networks that they would not have tethering to get those oh so great unlimited data plans that come with the iPhone. Now saying it is possible but it is down to the networks may well be true, but probably isn’t the whole story. Tethering will cost the networks a pretty penny and I imagine they would have said something about limiting it in their terms of service. Those not being there implies (at least in my eyes) that they weren’t expecting tethering to be official.

Additionally, if the iPhone can tether to your laptop for connection, how will the network be able to tell if the use is from your computer or from your iPhone and therefore charge extra for it? I don’t see this coming without additional fees from the networks.

Copy and paste looks better than I had anticipated. I couldn’t imagine how they would do it with the touch interface but actually looks pretty good.

Would someone please explain to me why I should want MMS? I’ve owned three smart phones including an iPhone 3G and I have never ever sent or received a single text or mms message. Never could see the point of it. I love email but texting seems like an AT&T ripoff. I was delighted to be able to opt out of SMS when signing my AT&T iPhone contract.

Video recording and a higher resolution camera are sure to be part of the next hardware version.

Bluetooth stereo and device control sounds great. But I was hoping for a bluetooth external keyboard.

Flash in Safari – Video works fine on the iPhone. I suppose Flash would be a useful addition but not something I’m putting a high value on. You have it way overrated on your point scale.

Landscape keyboard in all apps especially mail. Now that’s a killer feature. Love it. I’d give it 20 points. Let’s see of those Blackberry guys can keep up with our typing speeds now. I don’t think so.

Tethering is the one feature that’s been at the top of my list from day one. We all need to lobby AT&T for free tethering. It should be there and it should not be another opportunity for AT&T to extort funds from us.

The search feature looks really good especially for the mail search to include the server. Blackberry is growing smaller all the time in our rear view mirrors.