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I really only care about the first two, but Rui Carmo hits the nail on it’s head with the following 5 issues no one is talking about, and at least the first two seem so obvious to me that I can’t agree more:

1) It doesn’t sync over the air with anything – neither .Mac nor your Mac.
2) You can’t use it as a data modem.
3) No A2DP Support.
4) The camera is pedestrian.
5) Apple’s own notion of standard connectors.

As of the first two ones, it’s true that I’m so used to sync my Phone via Bluetooth and from time to time using it as a data modem with my MacBook that I can hardly imagine living without it.

I often sync my Nokia N70 and my Mac via Bluetooth not really knowing if my Phone is in my bag or in the living room lying around. It’s also true that I don’t use the Nokia that much as a data modem, but when I need to there’s often no other solution (e.g. no Wi-Fi hotspot).

I really don’t care about the cameras quality, but at least it should be able to record video.

And regarding connectors, neither my 3G iPod nor my Nokias have had standard connectors (like mini USB), forcing me to carry around cables for syncing or charging. A standard USB for syncing (as you can’t sync via Bluetooth) and charging would be a great improvement.

My question would be if the issues regarding Bluetooth (syncing, A2DP support, usage as a data modem) could be ironed out updating the iPhones OS X or with a new firmware.

Have to ask Rui Carmo!

As you all probably know, Steve Jobs admitted that Apple is working on future iPods based on OS X as the iPhone does.

As John Gruber puts it, the big question is whether …

The biggest question, as I see it, is whether Apple plans to introduce iPods that are more or less just the iPod app from the iPhone (i.e. just music and video players), or iPods that are everything but phones, with Wi-Fi networking for email, web, and more.

I would love to see an iPod with Wi-Fi networking being able to do email and web as on the iPhone. Better yet, an iPhone that shipped officially in Europe.

What will come first? My bet: new iPods.

In any case, the iPhone is Apple’s best shot at killing Flash, and Apple appears happy to be using it as such. The company just recently removed all remains of Flash from its corporate website, implementing everything that had been Flash-based using standards-based Ajax techniques instead.

Apple recently convinced Google to start offering its YouTube videos in an H.264 format that can be accessed by both the iPhone and Apple TV. The obvious reason for moving to H.264 video rather than using Flash is that Flash requires decoding the video on a general purpose CPU using the Flash/On2 software codec.

Excluding Flash is a huge slap in the face of Adobe, which is pushing Flash as the basis of its AIR and Flex web application strategies. Adobe likes to advertise that nearly every PC has a Flash plugin installed. Suddenly, nearly every mobile that has access to the real Internet won’t have Flash, making it far less attractive across the board

Via Roughly Drafted

(Via fscklog)

Today is the D-Day for the iPhone and one of the first gifted people to get hands on Apple’s iPhone was New York Times technology columnist David Pogue.

In his “Missing Manual” book series and with a perfect timing O’Reilly and Pogue Press release the iPhone: The Missing Manual which you can order now or even download today as a PDF file while you are waiting to get your very own iPhone.

As a sneak peak you can read David Pogue’s Favorite iPhone Tricks at the Missing Manual website.

I will be following the launch events of the iPhone today to get feedback if the iPhone is the floating car we imagined we’d be driving in the future.