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Top iPhone Annoyances and How to Fix Them

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(Newser) – Even a gadget as good as the iPhone isn't without its annoyances, although luckily bigger geeks than you have cooked up workarounds for most of them, Jared Newman writes in PC World. Some major gripes:

  • AT&T: The carrier's stranglehold in the US is becoming even more irksome as foreign iPhone users start to enjoy better tethering and multimedia messaging services.
  • Weak email management: An update has added bulk email management, but there's still no simple way to delete or move batches of messages.

  • Default apps can't be hidden: Apple seems to think every user needs a shortcut to checking the stock market. Wrong.
  • Apps can't run in the background: It's great to be able to listen to Internet radio stations like Pandora, but it'd be even better if you could check email at the same time.
Click the link below for the full list of iPhone annoyances—and some tricks to get around them.

An Apple Store sales associate prepares to sell two iPhone 3GS at an Apple Store in San Francisco last week.
An Apple Store sales associate prepares to sell two iPhone 3GS at an Apple Store in San Francisco last week.   (Getty Images)
"Even the greatest gadgets have flaws, Newman writes, "and the iPhone is certainly no exception."   (©thetechbuzz)
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Yourself
Jul 30, 09 10:26 AM CDT
i couldn't care less about background apps, all that does is drain the battery, and Apple i believe got that one right. As for hiding the stock ticker, god i'd love to be able to do it. i don't care two-sh*ts about it. An option to see the battery-life in percentage instead of some image would be nice as well. Also Flash for Safari would be nice, proper file storage like iPod's used to allow would be nice (i miss disk mode!) Reply
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wwwonderer
Jul 30, 09 1:12 PM CDT
I personally love being able to listen to music and text someone, while my browser loads a page on my BlackBerry Bold. Not having apps that ran in the background would annoy me to no end on my old phone: stopping the music player to check and AIM, or play chess, etc.
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Yourself
Jul 30, 09 2:58 PM CDT
i can listen to music while texting someone, seeing as the ipod is concidered a background app while in use. just can't use something like pandora while texting, and that's fine, since pandora is a bandwidth and battery hog anyways.
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EddyTeach
Jul 30, 09 10:31 AM CDT
I'm positive that a Gmail app would handle mail easier than the defail mail client-- too bad Apple would never let it through the app store. Reply
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Yourself
Jul 30, 09 12:12 PM CDT
you are right about that, but i think there's bigger issues first for them to resolve. The big thing though is that not everyone is on gmail, so they need to fix their in-house email as well as allowing gmail to work more natively.
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