iPhone – Hype and Reality..
Don’t get me wrong.. I love my iPhone! But when a device is showcased as something close to being the coolest thing to have ever happened, I think it should – at the very least – be able to do all the cool things that other devices in the market can do. And somehow I had thought iPhone has the ability to satisfy this basic expectation. But AT&T and Apple have completely failed at that – in my opinion. It is one thing to stop people from getting around things, but it is another matter altogether to purposely block them from doing things that are legitimate.
I am sure I will know that some of these can be done in some hackish way.. but this is no way to generate interest in your product IMHO (I don’t claim to be a geeky type – although I’d like to think of myself as such 
– but being in this industry for the last 15 years, I think I am not stupid either – I can figure things out fairly quickly). So here is the list of my annoyances (there are already bigger lists – check this http://www.appleiphonereview.com/iphone-features/25-things-wrong-with-the-iphone/ )
1. You can’t easily use DUN or PAN using your iPhone? Now what kind of ridiculous geekiness is there in that?
2. The bluetooth on this doesn’t offer any services – can’t transfer a file etc? This is so 20th century!
3. Doesn’t support Java or third party apps? Stupidity unlimited! You have to something like ‘Jailbreakfree’ your iPhone for that? This is like you have open up your DVD player and solder in a replacement for a register in order to just play a DVD!!
4. Standard FM trasmitter or for that matter even a standard 3.5mm plug doesn’t work. I have heard that the phone scrambles FM transmission – what?? – would love to know who is this *genius* at Apple that had this *wonderful* idea!
5. No copy/paste or selecting a chunk of text.. that totally sucks!
6. No voice dialing.. grrrr
7. The camera doesn’t have a zoom or there is no video recorder? How basic is that?