Texting has its oddities. In email or SMS mode texting is vertical (portrait) -only, making the keyboard narrow. But when the iPhone is in browser mode and you’re entering text into a page’s <textarea>, the keyboard can go into landscape mode, making writing much easier. What gives? Give us landscape SMS and email capability.

The headphone jack port doubles as a surgical-quality flesh-removing device. It’s REALLY sharp. I keep my phone in my front jeans pocket, and 4 times now I’ve conducted impromptu surgery on my finger reaching for a ringing phone. I now keep the phone upside down in my pocket, so when I reach for it I get to keep my digits.

No Bluetooth sync!? No BT syncing of Address Book contacts and iCal events?! Something I’ve been doing for FOUR YEARS with my lowly Sony Ericsson T610 is suddenly NOT AVAILABLE to me with this $500 phone? Hmm. Note I’m not asking for music sync over Bluetooth because I understand it would take decades to transfer gigabytes over Bluetooth.

The silent ringer switch sometimes moves itself. Nitpick. Many things in my pocket move.

My iPhone hunts for WiFi connections. And it asks me several times if I’d like to join. There’s an on/off setting for this, which is a little all-or-nothing for me. I’d like intelligent hunting, for instance,

• alert me if there’s an unlocked WiFi signal,
• connect to known signals,
• but stay silent and in EDGE data mode if the only signals around are unknown and locked

The interface is laggy. Sometimes it will not keep up with my scrolling in Safari, and will stutter after deleting a few emails back-to-back. X-ing a URL in Safari sometimes locks the interface for 5 seconds. C’mon, iPhone, just clear the URL field so I can type.

Overall I love my iPhone. These gripes don’t really affect my intense enjoyment of the device. I’ll have a What I Like About the iPhone post in a week.