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Apple's Top 10 iPhone Gaffes: Page 2 of 3

6. Speaking of input, where's the voice recognition? Ok so even if that's too far ahead of where we're at what about text to speech? GoogleMaps would be way cooler if the directions were being read to us while we drive.

7. iPhone would also be helped big time with a GPS locater. Sure that'll come in handy with the GoogleMaps, but it'll also come in handy when I lose my darn thing. Think about the marketing possibilities. Apple could then sell two iPhones one for you to use and then one for you to find the one you've lost!

8. Jobs compares iPhone to the smartphone. So who buys smart phones? Enterpises and white collar workers. And who's going to buy iPhones? Not enterprises that's for sure, at least no time soon. There's no support for synchronization with corporate applications -- namely Notes and Exchange Enterprise support options are lacking. Lose the iPhone device and you'd like to be able to lock it or remotely wipe the memory to protect personal contents. Don???t expect those sorts of capabilities any time soon.

9. Sluggish performance. Early reports from folks that I spoke with are that some apps don???t perform as well as Steve might have led us to believe. Is anyone surprised? Watching the video oo playing with the new iPhone interface looks way cool, but put that into practice and you've got to wonder what it's really going to be like panning, zooming, and moving around images -- and what will that screen do for battery life?

10. Full-scale Internet browsing is clunky on those screens, or so I've heard.