Things that I don’t like:

I keep finding myself wanting something to prop it up so I don’t have to hold it up. What if it could be attached to a bottom part, connected at a hinge that you could adjust perfectly to how youre sitting at the time. Wait, I have one of those in my bag too…

The first thing I did was fire up the browser. After just a minute realized that it’s an ok experience, at best. First of all, the forward/back buttons, and the other buttons you know and love on your iPhone browser, like to toggle to a different open page and add a link to your desktop, are all at the top of the browser. This is a problem since you have to hold up the device. So you have to reposition your hands to hit any of that. I wished I could move the whole navigation bar to the bottom, or to split it in half and put half on either side.

I can’t edit my google docs. Spreadsheets are editable, sort of. But docs are just out. Boo.

No flash. Don’t tell me HTML5 is going to kill flash. Just get me flash and deprecate it when the world turns.

When I browse the web, I’m often looking for something. Ctl-F/Cmd-F is one of my best friends. For those of you who don’t know this bit of magic, you hit control-f (windows)/command-f (mac), and your browser sends control to a search box. So you hit ctl-f, and then immediately type whatever word you’re looking for. The browser will find the first one, and then you can hit next to find the next occurrence of that word. Well, <deep breath>, on your Giant iPod, there is no way to do this. Boo.

Things I love:

Potential for apps that will be really useful. Enter Everauthor, but that’s another story. iBooks is really nice, and I can see myself reading on this device.

My mouth is watering for an iPad update of my VNC client. I have a Windows 7 desktop running as a VM on VMware’s ESX (a free hypervisor that is rock solid and can host dozens of VMs) on a machine in my closet. A good implementation of this could bridge the gap between the iPad and my laptop, and I could finally leave my laptop at home every day. I dreamed of this when I got my iPhone, and got it working, but the iPhone is just too small.

Google Reader, except that most videos linked to from blogs are flash. No flash.

All the new friends. People want to see it and touch it. I’m so much more popular now. I bought early enough to be part of the club!