In-Pocket iPod Function Issues

It's next to impossible to control the iPod function on the iPhone when it's in your pocket for a few reasons:
1. It's very difficult to locate the forward/reverse function on the screen when the iPhone is in your pocket.
2. It eventually locks, in which case you need to perform the additonal task of unlocking it without looking.
3. The iPhone lays flat in my pocket. When it lays flat, it goes into cover flow. There aren't even forward and reverse functions in cover flow!
This is a huge disadvantage when the iPhone is compared to the old iPods. My proposed solutions are:
1. Create a software update which allows you to turn off cover flow (even though you'd still have a hard time finding the forward and reverse functions when the iPhone is in your pocket, and it still would lock).
2. Put physical forward/reverse buttons on the next iPhone.
3. I understand that Apple used to make earbud headphones with forward and reverse controls on them, but do they still make them? Even if they did, I don't like earbud headphones so that wouldn't help me.
WDYT?
PS - I don't like to turn locking off because if I forget to turn it off it stays on and drains the battery and heats up =(
Message was edited by: 2xUeL

Happy to help.
In addition, this cable has the button built in to use the click/double click functions. You can use it to plug into any pair of headphones you like so no need to use the buds.
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