Sorry but the iPhone is not a computer, it's a phone

"This is as much a computer as a phone," says Matt Murphy, who heads Kleiner-Perkins' iFund, a $100 million initiative that seeds iPhone apps. "You don't expect a computer to last for 24 hours on one charge." -- From Wired (http://tinyurl.com/4zr4pr)

What an idiotic thing to say to defend Apple. So we are supposed to put up crappy battery life because what's in my pocket is a computer not a phone?

iPhone is just what the name says. A phone with lots of nifty features. If it's supposed to be a computer then Apple should have called it an iComputer.

Life after the iPhone 2.1 update

I am happy to report that I've been happier with my iPhone after the 2.1 update. It's not perfect but behaving much better. But I stick with my earlier comments that the iPhone 3G sofware was not ready for launch. After experiencing the changes after the 2.1 update, this is the state that the iPhone should have gone out.

1. Sync is much faster now. Used to take +1 hour at times, now it's only few minutes.
2. Apps remember their position. Great.
3. Not sure why they had to change the icons 3G and Edge. Silly.
4. So far less dropped calls but still getting some especially when I have 3G turned on. Just yesterday, I went from full 5 bars to "no service" while on the phone in DC. Sure, AT&T should take some blame but it's the Apple iPhone that I was talking into so I look to them to eliminate the dropped call problem.
5. Still no copy/cut & paste. Unbelievable
6. Need a global search feature for information stored on the iPhone. At the very least a way to search for Mail.
7. Safari still crashes from time to time
8. Still need a quick way to turn off GPS, WiFi, and 3G. Sort of like the airplane mode but leave the phone functional
9. Camera is still slow to respond
10. Where's the video and MMS?