I have iPhone problems. Lots of iphone problems. A whole list of annoyances from really using the iphone in a major fashion.

1) I really don’t like the iphone screen rotation.

90% of the time I’m holding the phone in one hand, using my thumb to type. All of a sudden the screen rotates. I then spend the next few moments trying to force it to rotate back.

This happens even worse for every single one of the book apps (Stanza, Kindle). On the Kindle app I’m given the option to lock it — after it rotates. The Stanza app rebuilds the page text so your place may be gone. Let me make a choice to rotate instead!

The other major annoyance I have is with Safari. When on its side I get a full-on usable web browser. Why would I ever not want to have this? How is the scrunched portrait web browser usable? Start with a full web browser please.

2) The button won’t lock

My wife and I have both downloaded a couple of nice apps for my 14-month old son to play with on car trips. He grabs the phone on its ends and immediately presses the button (because its indented) and shuts down the app. It would be nice if we could lock the button until someone clicks the top button.

3) Input your Passcode

With all the information that goes through a smart phone it would be pretty bad if someone else got their hands on it. I tried using the passcode feature and it’s not practical. I want my phone to require the passcode after an hour on inactivity. Not constantly.

I accidentally click a lot of links in Safari

A lot of websites pretty much make everything a link. So frequently when using Safari on long list type blogs (ZDNet) I accidentally click a link and find myself on a page in the middle of reading. Its annoying as hell.

4) Crashing applications

A couple of my favorite applications (I’m looking squarely at you Civilization) crash constantly. A lot of people would assume its because the app is a memory hog. This is true to a point. Part of the problem is that a lot of apps have leaks. A bigger part of the problem is that the apps run as second class citizens on the device behind the built-in apps. So a built in app may not be releasing memory like its supposed to, and the non-native apps have less to work with. Hence the whole “restart your iphone to run this app” malarkey.

Next revision: more grievances, better grammar.