Copy and Paste? I’d go for a temporal button, in others words, place your finger in the middle of the text, wait 2 seconds for the pop up menu to ask you if you want to copy the word, sentence or paragraph. Paste would be this process in reverse.

The iPhone is not a personal computer, so don’t treat it as one. Windows Mobile and Symbian stick to the computer paradigm (multi-tasking, hierarchal file structure, iPhone doesn’t.

I’m not saying the iPhone is perfect, but I like the fact that Apple has the guts to make a CHOICE. Microsoft always seems to add to what’s already there, so they add grab-and-drag but keep a scroll bar. Nokia screwed up in the 5800 by having you select-then-confirm, a paradigm that is a total misfit on a system that doesn’t work with a mouse or keyboard..

Apple chose a paradigm where you don’t use a folder structure. The change if they add it is much bigger than just adding a program, it’s changing the foundation of the device.

Also: Copy and paste. How would you implement it interface-wise?

Similar to Steve I carry the iPhone and N95 8GB, but in my case it’s the iPhone that takes to top spot.

What is still amazing to me is that every time I think about purchasing a Netbook, I find I my MacBook/iPhone combo is a way better solution than any Netbook. If fact just the iPhone on its own is more useful than 80% of the cheaper Netbooks.

If you consider Cydia (the jailbroken App Store alternative) to be software patched onto Apple’s OS then jailbreaking is no different to patching and modding The Windows mobile OS to improve its functionality.
How many people use Windows Mobile or Symbian devices without adding at least SOME kind of software to make the OS more enjoyable/functional?
I’ve just counted off the top of my head and of the five men and three women I know with iPhones (in the age range 18-25) ALL have jailbroken devices. Four of the people in question are O2 contract customers (one of them only jailbroke last week because she wanted the Hello Kitty theme).

If could be that my friends are all mavericks, but they seem quite typical to me. I’m not aware of many numbers or percentages; one I DO know however is that before Christmas the Cydia application DTunes (an iTunes alternative) hit the ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS landmark. This is a good illustration that the number of iPhone jailbreakers is a lot bigger than Apple would like.

My personal iPhone experienced is not hampered by a lack of cut n paste, mms or video recording. I’m not too bothered by lack of Flash Video playback in the browser, I don’t really need Bluetooth and I think the camera is ok. If other people choose not to jailbreak their iPhones then this is their choice, but the option IS there, it’s very easy to do, and it’s simple to undo in the event of a warranty return.

jailbreak is eliminating all the other limitations, but there is other thing I miss that can’t be solved that way: video call camera

People lament the iPhone’s camera, but do you know it REALLY isn’t that bad, much better in fact than the cameras on HTC devices like the T-Mobile G1 and the Touch HD DESPITE the fact that these devices are higher megapixel and autofocus. Slate me if you will but I believe that the camera on the iPhone is great for snapping and uploading photos to the numerous social networking applications available to the iPhone – nothing to large, looks fine on a computer screen. If for any reason I need great quality snaps or I’m at an important social event then I’ll take my N95 or my digicam.

As it stands my choices for upgrade are….

A Blackberry Curve

Another G1

A Touch HD

An N96

I know all but the Blackberrys very well as I’m a seasoned Symbian and Windows Mobile user and forum contributer, but the problem is this:

All of these phones LACK features I want, and much as the iPhone is deficient in many ways so are other phones on the market….

I want Beejive (which keeps me logged into msn all day and uses NO battery when I’m not actually viewing the app)

Facebook app with Facebook Chat

Applications easily browsable and downloadable on the phone itself

A comprehensive selection of photo editing apps that take advantage of multitouch

Text messaging that is easy, enjoyable and FAST

Podcasts downloadable over the air

A fully featured, user friendly mp3 player and 3.5mm stereo jack

BBC iplayer and YouTube player/downloader

Fast, friendly and fun browser

I’m sure there are other features I use, but on the spur of the moment these are the things that come to mind as my favourite iPhone features. All of them are lacking in some form or other on the handsets on offer to me.

And on a further note, for those not familiar with jailbreaking – this is essential for me as a T-Mobile customer, and offers me FULL mms, cut and paste (with either hclipboard or Clippy), video recording, SMS forwarding (with either MYsms or irealsms) and (soon) full Bluetooth capability (via SweetTooth).

Once you take jailbreaking into the equation a large chunk of the iPhone’s failing are overcome.

Within the All About iPhone team we have numerous iPhones as well, and Matt only lives down the road from me, so it’s not as if I’m making stuff up from hearsay. Please give me *some* credit.