Thanks Ilium, ewallet was the number one reason for me NOT to dump Palm for a Touch. Once I saw you had brought it over I grabbed a Touch right away and want to get an iPhone soon too! Keep up the development.

C&P was one of those things I found out the iPhone did not do, and over the last 9 months or so of usage, one that don’t miss very much.

However, I must say I am somewhat confused. If I am able to click on email containing a URL from within Email, and get the page launched within Safari, would eWallet not be able to do the same?

Also, would it not be possible to create a ‘Keychain’ entry from within eWallet for the id/password. That way when the website is launched Safari would have that info. Maybe I am over simplyfying things.. and I am sure you have much more creative guys on the Dev team, but, just a thought.

Having been a long loyal user of eWallet since my Palm Pilot days, I cannot wait to have my over 400 entries sync up and usuable on the iPhone.

All around Great jobs guys!!

One thing that comes to mind,

But then how do I paste the password into PIE (or Opera Mini), or into the WiFi WPA setting?

The good news about the iPhone is that Apple frequently updates the firmware. The same is not true for my Q9m – it has been updated once, and, so far, Verizon has not even announced whether they will add 6.1 to the device (and my guess is that they will not.) And people have suggested that the 2.1 iPhone firmware has text that suggests there will be cut/copy/paste.

So, how do I get copy/paste on my WM phone?

I think that Apple has already acknowledged that iPhone needs c/p and that they felt that there were other things that they needed to get done first, so I expect that a solution is coming soon. Sooner that it is coming to my WM SP anyway.

Also, as a geek, I am required to make car analogies.

PJMDS’s list is pretty good. Out of those things, I think that copy/paste is probably the big thing that I care about. I also amuse myself by trying to figure out how to implement it, and it almost always comes back to some kind of ‘different mode’ that would come up if you tap+hold on text. Right now, tap+hold on text starts up the magnifying glass. I suppose with copy and paste, you’d have to bring up the magnifying glass *and* have the loupe stay on the screen even if you let go of the screen, *and* offer some options to select text or not, and then to copy it or paste it.

The iPhone doesn’t really have any menus the way a PalmOS, Windows Mobile, or Blackberry device has. You have specific configuration screens, but no generic menu capability. There’s no ‘root menu’ or popup context menus, there’s no always-on menu option on screen, there’s no button that brings up a program-specific menu.

I put my five dollars on some kind of context menu that comes up when you tap and hold on the screen, not crazy multitouch ‘tap here and then use another finger to tap there and bring the two together’ ideas.

The lack of video calling is interesting. The idea that I would have to stare at my phone while calling someone on it seems to be antithetical to using my phone… I can’t do anything else while making a video call, lest I look like I don’t care about the other caller.

It’s amazing that people pay for such beta devices when they could get a device with all those features implemented and many more, iPhone is just to show of to your friends and hope that none of them ask about the features it doesn’t have

It must be some advanced brainwashing method that makes people crazy about the iPhone.

1. you are emailed contact info and want to save it to a new user. Maybe the phone will recognize the phone number, but you have to retype all the other contact information.

2. The iPhone is unable to dial a phone number from a calendar invite – no matter where it is (body, subject, etc). Yes this an iPhone shortcoming, but Copy/Paste would solve it.

Some of us may not edit docs or XLS files on our devices, but moving around and copying core information like contacts, calendar, notes, etc. is fundamental and all OS need the standard BB feature of Copy/Paste.

It is a SAD thing, what the SDK did to you developers. They REALLY limited you in what you can do. It would be GREAT to be able to tap into ALL functions (in a limited way) in order to get what you want out of it.

Think about all of the things that could be done if you can connect to your calender, email, contacts.. the list goes on.