I stumped a Genius Bar guy on two iPhone points

I recently went to the Soho Apple store and went over all my issues that I have with my iPhone. Most of them I have seen discussed over and over since the release (see my long list below). However here are two issues I have not seen discussed that are highly problematic. When I brought them up to a Genius Bar guy, he said I had found all the issues he knew of and didn't even know about these two:
First, from your contacts, if you click on an address to look it up in Maps, if that adress contains a Fl.#, Flr.# Fl # Fl. # Floor # or anything like that, Maps cannot find the address. If you delete the Floor number out of your contact, Maps locates the address without issue. Living in NYC, I have a lot of addresses with floor numbers, so this is really annoying.
Second, if you are on the phone, you cannot edit an existing contact, or create a new one. Why this is the case completely baffles me. Essentially, I have to write down someone's info if they give it to me over the phone and then add it after I've hung up.
I hope apple takes note of these two biggies and also...my long list of issues:
No copy and paste
USB recognition in iTunes is buggy, though better since updates
Cannot txt to mutliple addresses or forward txts
No picture texting
Freezes and crashes of all kinds, though better since updates
No search feature for address book; Spotlight please??
Email doesn't flip sideways like Safari
General volume is too low for phone, external speakers, ringer and alerts
Calender is not color coded for categories
No Flash
All that said, I love my iPhone. I just hope Apple goes the distance in raising it from a B+ to and A+ device.
Note: I recently went to Scotland for a week. I texted quite a bit, made a few phone calls here and there and had $24 in additional charges on my bill. Not too bad. Just be sure to keep airplane mode on whenever you can, don't use Safari or any web based widgets and you shouldn't ring up a big bill overseas.

if that adress contains a Fl.#, Flr.# Fl # Fl. # Floor # or anything like that, Maps cannot find the address.
Google Maps used to have the same problem with Suite, St, #, etc, didn't it? Those seem okay now.
For fun, I just tried your "Flr#" variations using Google Maps for Windows Mobile (which is almost the same as iPhone but without animated pushpins). That version also fails to find the address... unless it's spelled out explicitly as "Floor", which works.
So it appears to be a Google problem. We should try the direct Google web service to confirm.
PS. So I started thinking. Hey, Google has a big office in New York. They even work on Maps there:
http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=why-ny-ny.html
So don't they ever look up themselves? Wouldn't they figure out that "Flr" was a problem? Haha, no. Because their address is listed as:
76 Ninth Avenue
4th Floor
New York, NY 10011
With "Floor" spelled out. Which works

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