iphone? no thanks!

Hello everybody...I'm again in our wonderful country coming back from the Silicon Valley roadshow with, of course, a new iphone in my hand and bringing a couple of them to some good friends of mine.

Btw...I had enough time to play with it and I would like to share with you some first impressions.

First of all I share with you a very funny joke I have read somewhere on the web:

John is on a warpath, flashing even his wisdom teeth and striking various poses from men's health. I need to maneuver hard to disable him.
Suddenly I take out my Iphone...
"Wow! you got an iphone... cool, can I see... can you take my picture... " [now she mimics Sharon Stone, making the picture taking process difficult]
"Sure, here it is, I guess it makes my iphone even cooler now..."
"Wow, it's nice, can you bluetooth it to me?"
"No"
"Can you mms?"
"No"
"Infrared?"
"No"
"Well i guess i can't beam you my phone number either..."
"No"
"I see John here has a Samsung i600, i guess that would work..."

So we are still talking about the same big apple's issues: being a closed world and following too much stricts policies.

Specifically:

- No MMS because they encourage you using emails. It can be fixed by all european who love MMS with some available sw add-ons

- No Bluetooth because p2p can damage their itunes business :-)

- a big list of missing features or bad deployed ones! This firmware is really a disaster for a cellphone's lover! :-)

Here's my short "To-do" list for the next coming firmware:

- Finding a method to protect itunes stuff but adding bluetooth data-transfer support. A Mobile Phone that  limit the user in delivering and sharing contents on the move has simply no sense!

- Spotlight

- A very good and easy to use Sync system

- Adding Tasks!! Where's the task application???

- Improve the SMS application giving control on deleting single pieces of the entire "conversation"

- Improve Email application even if I suggest to all to use the Funambol client

- horizontal keyword in every applications, please! :-)

- a power control over SIM

These are the most important features I suggest to add, but I know people is asking up to 30-40 points! Unbelievable :-)

As you can see I don't think that a touchscreen display with some cool effects and an overall great design are such disprutive features.

Surfing the web in a 480x320 display with a cool zoom feature can be fun at the beginning (the wow effect) but after a short time It become a boring and tedious stuff...somthing to be used only when necessary (get a map direction, sync and write emails, etc). Having a next generation phone that limit you to live in a closed world is really frustrating! But even if software can be fixed during time (and I think apple will adjust its policy) we must consider another Hw limit: the battery!

I don't want to alway be with a charger in my hand...what about to have more than one batteries for easily replacing the empty one with a ready to use full one?? ;-) Ok..I see..I'm asking too much!:-)) So let's stay tuned waiting for the new apple firmware and new GPhone and Symbian and Limo Foundation roadmap. I cannot belive that Google will give Apple the same lesson that Microsoft gave within PC market...