We’ve all seen one. Most of us kind of want one. The house that Jobs built has created what some (myself included) hail as the advent of the true smartphone and one of the most important mobile technology devices ever conceived. Sadly though it’s greatest competitor, Research in Motion, still rules the smartphone buisness space by offering a few key features that the iphone has yet to adapt. Even with tomorrow’s launch which will now bring GPS and “3G” capabilities the Jobs and Co. still has some work to do.

I am an avid advocate of the iPhone; however, I find myself envious of some the features that my Blackberry brethren have access to. So I am making a list of the five things that I think Apple should introduce to the iPhone to help it ‘juice’ a few more users from Blackberry.

5 Reasons Why 3G Iphone Isn’t a Blackberry Killer

(Assuming you have not hacked your phone. These features I believe should come standard.)

1. Word and Excel Document viewing and editing - This almost goes without saying. The iPhone has enough horsepower to do almost anything a low-end pc can. Yet due to lack of foresight, licensing, or for whatever unseen reason I still can’t do anything with MS documents. (Apparently firmware 2.0 will add support) This goes without saying as being a huge hurdle when trying to use the iPhone as a business phone.

2. Cut and Paste - Whether its web links, text snippets or figures pulled from the calculator app, cutting and pasting goes without saying is by far the most useful function of any digital device and nothing does it better than OS X. So why can’t the iPhone?

3. Standard 3G Network (edit) - Why can’t apple just accept things as they are and adopt a common standard. As it stands apple is using different frequency for it’s 3g network (most likely in an effort to limit the ability for users to switch to T-mobile) but this also limits the effective range of the overall network. Several reports have come out saying that even in certain areas in New York they are having a difficult time getting service. Every time I have to travel to somewhere that isn’t a major metro I have to suffer with the crippled EDGE network and that can be downright cruel, this also makes using the iPhone internationally a joke. (edit - Apple is adhering to true 3G standard, though it still sucks internationally)

4. Voice dialing - Okay I have the bluetooth headset. I have the bluetooth phone. But why can’t I tell my phone who I want to call. If you have ever tried to dial and drive on the iPhone then you know that you might as well just wait cause you will probably: A. dial the wrong number or B. Cause and accident.

5. Haptic (force feedback) touch interface - This one to me is the most important and would have replaced the issue I have with number four. Just give me a little shake when I touch a button. That way I can tell if my thumb is in the right neighborhood.

Apple like always is moving forward to address some of these issues. Firmware version 2.0 will have support for Word and Excel. Sooner or later I think Apple will stop using some crazy hybrid network and just let us use whatever the current standard might be. Voice dialing and Cut and Paste could possibly be addressed via 3rd party applications. Haptic (force feedback) could be easily implemented, however that comes down to a licensing issue with the ever greedy Immersion Software.

Anyways, I hope you find this useful. And like I stated earlier, I love my iPhone but a Blackberry killer it is not. Though it’s a lot easier to get my email accounts set up. And I am not tethered to RIM’s slop-tastic downtime of a datacenter that for some reason has to route my messages.

What are you’re issues with the Iphone?

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