This time the complaint comes from Paul who also faces a lot of issues with the iPhone.

Here is a direct quote from him through the iPhone complaint form:

Hardware shortcomings of iPhone:

No removable media – Windows Mobile allows MicroSD cards up to 32 MB each.
No 3G High Speed Internet capability-iPhone has the Edge network only.
No removable battery-Must send to Apple to replace
No GPS capability. – You can get Google Maps but the iPhone can not tell you where
you are on the map like a Windows Mobile with GPS (AT&T Tilt) You can not perform
internet LiveSearch without GPS. This is where you search for things by your
location. Show me the nearest gas station, public restroom, etc. to my current
location.
No Stereo Bluetooth- iPhone only has mono Bluetooth -
No real keyboard – iPhone is basically only good for reading emails, the touchscreen
keyboard is seldom used to enter very much because it is so slow.
No Voice Activation for dialing phone numbers and/or calling up Programs.
No Voice Recording for notes etc.

Software shortcomings of iPhone:

No 3rd Party programs available. This is HUGE. Apple announced the release of a
Developers Kit but no programs have been introduced yet. There are thousands of
Windows Mobile Programs because Windows Mobile has been out for 15years and uses
open architecture.
Slingbox Mobile does not work on iPhone so you can not watch your home
cable/satellite TV channels with a Slingbox on iPhone. You must subscribe to the
lame AT&T Mobi-TV service for another $9.95/month.

http://wmexperts.com/reviews/smackdowns/iphone_vs_windows_mobile_email.html

Email is more difficult to use on iPhone…see link above.

No ability to cut and paste text with iPhone. You must re-type anything from
documents/emails.

No ability to edit or create new Microsoft Office Documents. You can display them
but not edit or change them. This is HUGE.

GoToMyPc/Citrix does NOT work with iPhone. This program is used to connect to
another computer and access all the files and programs remotely.

I got a message through my iPhone complaint submission form that is really eye opening and lists some of the problems people have with the iPhone:

I was lured by the “cool stuff” this phone can do! However, after one month the cool factor is gone and the flaws are starting to really piss me off.

Problems are as follows:

1. No snooze for calendar events. I use my calendar to remind me of events & to-do’s. Being able to quickly snooze a to-do, without having to enter the event and edit it would have been great but Apple chose form over function.

2. No to-do list.

3. Can not search contacts using the keyboard. It’s a slow process to scroll through 600 plus contacts. Even when you use the slider bar to get to a group of contacts by a, b, c etc…

4. Can only sort contacts by first and last name. What about company!

5. Ear piece & speaker volume is awful. In a moderately loud public place it’s very difficult to hear the person on the other end of the phone.

6. The ability to forward a text message would be nice.

7. The ability to send a photo via a text message would also be a great feature.

8. Spell check a finished email or text. Yes, it does check after you type each word. However, if you use the delete key it doesn’t spell check that word again.

9. If you’re in the middle of entering a calendar event and the phone rings that information is not saved.

10. The sound notification for a calendar event is two very quiet beeps and or vibrations. You can not change the volume level, length or type of sound notification.

11. If a notification goes off for a calendar event a window comes on the screen. You must either view the event or dismiss the notification. This is where the snooze feature would have been great. So instead you view the event, if at this point another calendar notification goes off you’re screwed. You can either dismiss the new event or view it, however, if you chose to view the new event you are dismissing the event you were already editing. That means the reminder will not go off again, so you have to scroll through your calendar to edit the event manually. This is a confusing and long winded description of a confusing and long winded process.

12. Trying to CAPITALIZE a word is long process. Why not a double tap on the capitalization key?

13. If you enter a space between numbers it will go back to the letter keys.

14. You can ONLY forward one photo at a time using email. Why not more?

What’s sad, is that the iPhone was in development for years and they didn’t bother to look at the things that Blackberry and Treo type smartphones do well. The iPhone does do many great things that other smartphones don’t do but if you’re a business orientated user, you’ll either need another smartphone or PDA to answer the shortcomings of the iPhone.

First Adobe’s CEO announced that there will be a Flash Player for the iPhone, today they say this would require support from Apple and if there is none the Flash Player cannot be ported to the iPhone. Additionally licensing problems forbid Adobe to develop a Flash player based on the SDK.

Souce: InformationWeek.com

So one of  the big complaints user had towards the iPhone, the missing Flash player is still no solved!

Did you know that the YouTube implementation on the iPhone is not based on Adobe’s Flash technology?  They have converted videos from YouTube to be playable on the iPhone, but you cannot access all YouTube videos through the iPhone.

Especially Apple fans feel somewhat cheated as they switch to the iPhone. Most people that use Apple products really love that company but with the iPhone they might feel a little cheated by their beloved company.

I heard some rumors that the ring tone of the iPhone was not loud enough. You just could not hear the phone well enough when it was in your pocket. Through the monopolistic approach of Apple in Europe people had to switch from one service provider to the other one to get the phone. For example O² in Great Britain which has a worse coverage than Vodaphone, but if you want the iPhone you need to go there.

I just received a note from my submit iPhone complaints form that AT&T does not honor any corporate discounts if you switch from an existing contract to an iPhone related service plan. Also the do not feel obliged to disclose that fact.

That is really something to think about. Everybody knows if you get a corporate contract for numerous mobile phones you will usually get a cheaper rate. This also makes sense for the mobile phone networks.  Having one client with 1000 phones is easier than having 1000 individual clients.

I also wonder if T-mobile in Germany or Orange offers reduced prices for corporate iPhone plans?

We heard some news from tech.co.uk that users of the iPhone have reception problem with the iPhone on the O² network in the UK where other O² users don’t have any trouble at all.

They claim that this mostly due to battery problems with the iPhone. When the battery is fully charged the signal strength goes up.

One users says: “My Apple iPhone can barely pick up even the slightest signal, although on occasion can pick up three bars, only for it to drop out again. I have two other 02 phones, a Sony Ericsson and a Nokia N95 with no reception problems at all. Is anyone experiencing same problem with their Apple iPhone, I would like to hear from you,”.

One sollution to this problem can be a full restore of the iPhone: “After reading this thread and others, I did a restore of the Apple iPhone back to factory (1.1.2) and voila - success. On my desk no service to one bar again (best I can hope for) but in the bay window I now get three bars which is great,” wrote ‘Cottycam’.

According to a GfK NOP survey 75% of the Britains think the iPhone is too expensive.

4&% of those questioned claimed they would never buy the iPhone at the current price, 26% like the iPhone a lot but also believe it’s too expensive. Only 2% of them said they want to get the iPhone for Christmas.

8% of the British people don’t like the iPhone at all and 12% have even never heard of it.

Judging from this survey the iPhone doesn’t have a lot of success in Great Britain where it is exclusively sold through O² with the corresponding long term contract.

I heard it before, but according to Macrumors forums users are reporting a “dead strip” on the iPhones touch sensitive display. This “dead strip” is an area on the display that does not allow any gesture input. I seems to only occur be only at the bottom or top part of the display.

One forum user reports: ”First the very bottom of the screen went out so I could not hit the space-bar on the keyboard, or change to the number/character screen. Then it got worse a few days later, now I cannot hit any of the main function buttons.”

Nothing like restarts or reboots seems to dissolve this problem. Firsr rumors say it is a hardware problem of the iPhone that the display is not responding to finger input. It also seems like that Apple is aware of the situation and exchanges displays that are broken and don’t respond any more in the “dead strip” area.

I always wondered why the iPhone has no clipboard at all?

Copy and paste between applications? Not on the iPhone!
Found an interesting address to check out in Google Maps? Better remember it or use plain old paper!

This really make no sense at all, but maybe that’s just one of the advanced features of the iPhone?! Who knows.

Yeah true the iPhone has Bluetooth, but can we really use it? No!

With all, i repeat all, other phone we can do nice things with Bluetooth like:

•  Transfer files to the Mac/PC or to other Bluetooth devices
• Synch your phone with the Mac/PC. No need for a cable!
• Connect to external GPS in your car. The iPhone has all the nice Google Maps, why can’t we not use them in a proper way!?
• Internet access from your laptop

The only thing that you can do on the iPhone with your Bluetooth is connect a headset, this is makes the iPhone a somewhat crippled device when it comes to Bluetooth!