This doesn’t group the items, but it still addressed the scenario he mentioned in item #1. It’s a lot more functional a search than I originally thought as well.

Bill

Wayne – I’m going to have to check out AOL Radio.

Chris – As far as I know, Contact and Calendars do not have grouping support. There are, however 2 calendars – home and work. As I mentioned I believe PI is coming to iPhone, I’ll be curious as to how many of the original features will be supported.

There is a snooze feature on alarms. Did you remember to turn the snooze feature on for the alarm you were creating? Each alarm can snooze or not independently of each other so you set it on/off when you create the alarm.

There is no “collective” inbox for mail. Each box stays separate. It’s really only a couple of taps to move from one to another, but I’m still trying to decide if I like the separation or not.

I don’t have any problems with the soft keyboard. I have found that it learns your patterns as time goes on and makes better assumptions, but I do see your point. At least a way to turn off the assist would be good, but for me the help does more good than bad.

As far as PDF support – I want full Adobe DRM compatability so that’s going to require Reader.

Overall, I am pleased with the new system software, and the ability to access 3rd party apps. Regarding Acrobat reader, are you looking for the ability to sync and view PDF files on the iPhone? If not, I’ve found the PDF reading capabilities of the Safari browser to meet my needs, which are usually just accessing PDFs via the web.

1. Group by Category in Contacts. I don’t necessarily want to see everything, but I might remember that someone I need to call/e-mail worked for . I’d like to be able to sort/display by category (and would it be too much to ask for collapsible sections like WinMo, or am I stuck in a paradigm??)

2. Alarms/Reminders. how the heck do I snooze an alarm? I don’t see a snooze button. VERY annoying!

3. Mail. Tap the button, and you’re taken to the last screen you used. If you have more than 1 inbox on the device, you have to go back to the accounts screen, tap the account, tap the inbox and then look at mail. If you want to change accounts, you have to back out all the way to the Accounts page, tap the account you want to see, tap inbox, etc. Oy! that’s a lot just to check mail…

4. Calendar. Categories… Again, Outlook has me thinking categories; and if I can only sync 1 calendar, then Categories become a huge deal.

5. Soft Keyboard. This is probably the WORST area in the device. I do e-mail A LOT from my mobile device, and I seem to fat finger/thumb things a lot with my iPhone…And if the damn thing replaces one more frickin’ word on me I’m gonna chuck it out the damm window!

I know what I want to type, fer cryin’ out loud! The damn device doesn’t know better than me! At least with WinMo, I had a choice of how many words it would display when trying to anticipate text (but then, I had a hardware d-pad so I could pick the one I want, too). with the iPhone, I get the once choice, and then I have no choice but to take the suggestion, as the device won’t recognize me tapping the little “X” in the text suggestion baloon. This is probaly the most frustrating part of this transition…

One of the applications I’m trying is OmniFocus which works with the whole GTD cultlike approach to getting yourself organized. I really am hoping (and so far the results are positive) that I’ll be able to rely on this app to juggle the umpteen odds and ends that become To-Do items. You really cannot just download OmniFocus without also getting the software program that runs on your Mac. The sync wirelessly via MobileMe.

Evernote is absolutely the best. There’s a full iPhone client that you use to access ALL of your notes. You can also add iPhone pictures or voice recordings to notes.

I also agree with you Chris that the Apps show a little 1.0 roughness (for example AOL radio crashes every time I try to locate and then play a CBS radio station near me).

Overall I’m impressed with the version 2.0 OS — and I haven’t even upgraded yet to the 3G iPhone.