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iPhone + gloves = non-starter

I think I just found the nail in the coffin for my iPhone: it doesn’t work when you’re wearing gloves.

It’s 24 degrees, the wind is blowing up 6th Avenue, and I have to use the thing with my bare fingers? No phone is worth this.

Some other iPhone complaints, while on the subject:

• SMS doesn’t work in landscape mode.
  
• Passwords are super easy to shoulder-surf thanks to the visual keyboard, and yet there is no way to render them in plain text for usability.
  
• No selection, no clipboard.
  
• No caps lock.
  
• Nice Terminal but no arbitrary control keys (not Apple’s fault, this one)

Using the Amazon Kindle, a seriously polished product with zero sexy-factor, has made it painfully obvious just how beta the iPhone is. Revolutionary, fun, shiny. But definitely not polished.

I look forward to the day when an iPhone update produces something more useful than deeper iTunes integration.