Nothing’s perfect applies to Apple IPhones too. Here are the top 11 Iphone annoyances and what you can do about them:
- Hiding apps – including the default ones
Iphone’s start screen is filled with shortcuts to prepackaged applications that come with the Iphone whether you want them or not. For example: An app for checking stocks whose shortcut can’t be removed from the Iphone interface. Although Apple’s thinks and insists us to use it, not everyone wants to check the Google’s stock price or for that matter the weather or even use calculator or notes. It sucks that the Iphone’s prepackaged apps can’t be hidden, deleted, or otherwise customized; this adds to the stubborn nature of Apple.
- Can’t Run apps in the background
One of the best features of Iphone is streaming videos and radio using Wifi… But too bad it can’t be minimized \ run in the background.
- Apple stores’ design is bad
There may very well be an app that suits your wildest dreams, but good luck finding it among the junk that populates so much of the Iphone’s App Store. Only a text search or sorting apps by release date will get you beyond the top 100 in each category, and even then you’ll turn up plenty of unwanted results and that’s a complete waste of time… maybe they need a show all button.
- No can do contact list groups
On the Iphone, everyone’s your friend, even your boss. That’s because the built-in Contacts app won’t let you split work and personal contacts into separate groups or allow you to create custom groups. Everyone co-exists in one massive list unless you first create subsections on your computer. So what I’ve done is get an app to organize the contacts :)
- Attach files to emails or store them
The Iphone isn’t a computer, I know that. But a Smartphone with so many capabilities and a generous hard drive should at least allow storing and sending of files. Photos and videos to be sent out directly only from the Iphone’s camera roll; also, you have no way to download Word documents and other files for editing and sending later.
- Multimedia messaging
Almost every other cell phone in the market has the ability to send images to other cell phones via multimedia messaging, or MMS. Yes you can still e-mail those photos, but MMS is such a basic feature that it should’ve been in the Iphone from the start.
- Bulk email management not enough… very poor
Though the Iphone’s 2.0 OS update added bulk e-mail management, it’s not very good and flexible. You can tap individual messages to mark them for deletion or movement to another folder, but there’s no “Select All” option for deleting or moving batches of mail at one time. It’s also not possible to run a search term and delete the results, so forget about easily wiping correspondence with particular people.
- Jail breaking you’re way out of it
If you’re just fed up with AT&T’s service and want to stick it to the man, unlock your Iphone and switch to T-Mobile–the only other major U.S. carrier using the Iphone-friendly GSM radio band–until a better offer comes around. There’s always a chance that AT&T will punish you for being sneaky and you’re warranty for the Iphone ends the day you jail break it. For all you dare devils visit how to unlock your Iphone page by PcWorld
- Where is the Bluetooth?
Right now, all you can use Bluetooth on the Iphone for are headset voice calls, and that’s it. This is sufficient for most people, sure, but we would like for Apple and AT&T to open up the Bluetooth profiles for the Iphone. This means we would like stereo Bluetooth and A2DP for streaming music wirelessly, Bluetooth tethering so we can use the Iphone as a modem, and finally we would like to have Bluetooth file-transfer protocol so we can transfer files to and fro the Iphone.
- Battery drains out really fast
I always have to Turn Wi-Fi off when on the road and turn 3G off when using Wi-Fi. Sometimes I would also turn down screen brightness as much as possible to reduce the battery drain…I tend to forget that the battery won’t hold up for more than a day when its computer like functions are pushed to their limit.
- Can fry an omelet on my phone too
Sometimes while streaming videos, radio or browsing on the internet the phone gets really hot… so maybe someday, I will try to fry an omelet on my Iphone :) and see how it cooks :D
Common workaround for some of the above problems – Jailbreak.
Jailbreaking is a process that allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to run unofficial code on their devices bypassing Apple’s official distribution mechanism, the App Store. Once jailbroken, iPhone users are able to download many applications previously unavailable through the App Store via unofficial installers such as Cydia and Icy. These applications can make changes outside of the application, which official applications cannot.
