Don’t get me wrong, I love my iPhone and wouldn’t be without it but it’s frustrating sometimes to know that despite it’s myriad capabilities, there’s still more it could do. The fact that people are already managing to do this stuff having jailbroken their iPhones leads me to believe that Apple is witholding this stuff possibly due to brokering exclusive licences with other vendors.

1. Copy / Paste

This has to be the most obvious omission, something that is so ubiquitous in computer GUIs, we take it for granted. The main issue seems to be how to implement copy/paste using the multitouch interface. For jailbroken iPhones, there are a few solutions available including Clippy [via LifeHacker].

2. Bluetooth Input

I really want my iPhone to be able to act as an ultra-portable laptop replacement, I’ve written blog posts using the touchscreen keyboard before now but it’s a long and arduous process. A physical keyboard would be the ideal solution to stop me enviously eyeing up those nifty little netbooks which are all the rage these days. Macally have just the device lined up and ready to go, just as soon as Apple pull their finger out and enable bluetooth input; What secret dealings are preventing this from happening I wonder?

3. A2DP Stereo Bluetooth

Why is it that what is supposedly the “funnest”, musical, media-capable phone available, not include A2DP support for wireless stereo headsets. This is another example of a feature which is becoming commonplace in other devices and the iPhone contains the hardware to support it, yet Apple have yet to unlock the capability. The only solution at the moment is to buy an external A2DP transmitter.

4. Video

Live streaming video from a mobile device to the internet is becoming an increasingly useful tool thanks to services such as QIK. The guys from QIK have managed to enable the service on the iPhone but again it requires the phone to be jailbroken. The framerate isn’t so great but it’s still a useful feature, the one which my Nokia owning friends still use as a get-out-of-jail-free-card whenever the iPhone envy builds up.

I feel torn between annoyance that Apple is holding out on us and happiness that even without these features, my iPhone is still the best gadget I own.