- HSDPA - it would be nice but coverage is minimal and an iPhone on EDGE is a lot quicker in real terms for browsing than any UMTS (3G) phone. OK EDGE coverage isn't great either but it works at my house and in London which is fine for me.
I live in London and I get HSDPA coverage almost everywhere. In fact, nationally HSDPA has better coverage than EDGE.
I find surfing on a N95 (with the latest firmware) way faster. The iPhone doesn't support setting a homepage (AFAIK) and the default zoomed out view means you
always have to zoom at least once to read the content of a page. Another thing with the iPhone is if you scroll too fast you get a chequered pattern - something I've never seen on an N95 once the page has loaded.
A lot of websites these days are incredible poorly coded and have 1MB+ homepages. HSDPA really comes into its own once you want to view these websites.
Engadget on EDGE is a nightmare for example.
- Bluetooth, I actually prefer using a USB cable as it means I charge my phone extremely often. My N95 won't even charge with it's USB cable!
Can't send photos to your makes or quickly send a file though. Mine phone is set to sync as soon as it gets in BT range of my PC too, so I don't even need to press a button or take it out of my pocket.
What's wrong with charging via a wall socket? I've got more wall sockets than USB ports in my house.
- SMS, The only annoying thing is not being able to send to multiple recipients but I've not needed to do that yet. I much prefer the 'conversation' layout of SMS messages on the iPhone, less clutter and you can remember previous texts easily. I can send MMS from my iPhone and receiving should be along soon too.
I regularly send texts to multiple people (usually organising a trip down the pub) so this was a big thing. Have you used the MMS app for the iPhone? Didn't seem to be very good the last time I tried it.
- Proper 3rd party app support - It's coming but any muppet can jailbreak their iPhone and use 3rd party apps, it's not difficult at all.
There's no guarantee that future firmware releases won't break everything though. I know you're not forced to upgrade the firmware but future firmwares will hopefully include fixes for some of things wrong with the iPhone.
From what Steve Jobs has said, official 3rd party software support is likely to be locked down very tightly.
- One handed use - works absolutely fine for me, including web browsing. You can zoom in and out of pages with a double click rather that use the 'pull fingers apart method'.
Tried typing out a message one-handed whilst walking down the street? It's impossible - the level of concentration needed is way above what's needed T9 or a physical QWERTY keyboard.
I also find the double tap method very unreliable. Sometimes it zooms in nicely, sometimes it either doesn't zoom in at all or zooms in at an inappropriate level.
- Contract - again a lot of people have got round this and use their iPhones with normal o2 contracts.
Again, we don't know what surprises future firmware updates will bring. O2/Apple surely can't be happy that people aren't signing up for the premium iPhone tariffs.
