Macworld: First Look: iPhone fixes we want to see.

It seems like there are counterarguments to many of these popular wishlist items for the iPhone, though I suppose some of them are as speculative as the items themselves. Nevertheless:

• 3G. Apple says "battery life." If it were a choice, I'd pick battery. EDGE/3G hybrid with network selection would be a different story, especially with a modem feature, but I still need to be able to go a whole day of heavy use without charging.
• Selectable text. Strongly desired, but how would the interface work? Apple can probably figure it out, but it's not obvious.
• Plain text email. Yeah, but real estate for preferences is hard to come by. On the other hand, suppressing image downloads is a key security feature of Mac Mail and other readers, so yes please.
• Sync notes. To where? Everyone is saying this is inevitable because Leopard Mail will have a notes feature—but that notes feature stores notes on mail servers. Is that how iPhone Notes should work? Even if my only mail account is a Gmail account? Even if I don't want to set up a mail account on my phone? Would iPhone notes sync to Mail then propagate to my mail server on sync? If they sync to iTunes, does iTunes need its own built-in notes feature? I'd take syncing to a directory of plaintext files any day, but that doesn't sound like an Apple feature.
• Disk mode. Unlike the iPod, you can pull the iPhone out of its cradle at a moment's notice, such as to answer a phone call. If the iPhone were mounted as a disk, you couldn't do this safely. Disk mode is like continuous sync'ing, and is a process that has to be stopped by unmounting the disk, which takes a painful 10 seconds or so with an iPod (painful when you're running to catch a bus, anyway). Disk mode is essential for the iPod, especially since I don't want to mirror all 80 GB of music and video data on my laptop's hard drive all the time. It's also a nice Notes solution. But it seems like not being able to answer calls quickly is a deal breaker.
• Adobe Flash support in Safari. Again, battery and implementation quality might be the issue, and if I had to choose, I'd pick battery. So far, I haven't missed Flash at all on the iPhone, and I'm starting to think I should disable it on my main computer.

I mean, a magic device similar to the iPhone with all of those features would be great, but if Apple is going to work on anything for its next release, it should be fixing all the damned bugs.

I'm surprised Macworld didn't mention spam filtering for mail. They mostly focused on the ability to delete lots of messages fast, which is sorely needed even with spam filtering. But I'm back to Gmail just for its spam filter, with the consequence of having all mailing list mail sent to my phone.