I very much like being able to listen to podcasts/audiobooks at 2x speed (although I don't understand Apple's logic of offering a half speed function, surely 1x, 1.5x and 2x would have been better - 0.5x isn't for accessibility is it?)

Equally the 30 second rewind is very nice. The variable-speed scrubbing is again ingenious - but, in the same way that I'm currently accidentally launching Spotlight every other time I return to the home screen, its going to take some getting used to. What's interesting about the scrubbing is its a very rare occasion where Apple have to put instructions up on the screen to explain to people how to do something - I sense they are fighting a constant battle between keeping the iPhone interface simple and offering better features. I'd have liked a 30 second fast-forward; did they not think there would be any demand, or was it to placate advertisers?

Another feature I really welcome is the addition of a small semi-transparent halo to indicate you have successfully selected the scrubber - before, it often took 2 or 3 attempts to 'grab' it because you tried to move forward or backwards before realising you hadn't made contact. This is even better in landscape mode.

I'm a bit puzzled why they still don't support viewing of shownotes - from an interface point-of-view all you'd need would be a little 'i' logo in the corner to bring the page up. Again, is there some technical reason for not offering them?

Spotlight is nice, and the thing I like about the Voice Memos app is its integration - it syncs back to iTunes *and* you can email the memo, and you can assign it a category, and you can keep recording whilst using other apps (which of course, by design, is a feature no other app can offer).

I agree with christthomson - I don't want to have to shake a device to do something. Maybe the next iPhone will have to have two buttons.

I'd have appreciated the ability to delete all emails at once - if you're using POP3, as I am, then the messages stay on the phone even after you've downloaded them on your desktop Mac - presently you have to press 'Edit' and then delete them all one at a time (unless you know different?)

When sending texts, I'd prefer it if the message box was slightly bigger, and there was a character counter so you could see if you were going into a second message.

Also, one of the most fiddly tasks on the iPhone at present is rearranging applications - someone suggested elsewhere that you ought to be able to do that from iTunes, by dragging the apps around on screen, and then syncing to the iPhone - that would be fantastic.

Oh, and give us a volume control on the headphones please - is it possible to have that as well as the microphone?
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