Obvious and simple Iphone Suggestions for improvements

Iphone Suggestions:
by the way, where is the place one should post these suggestions for best possible chance for the mac brainies to hear it?
Thanks
- can't edit, add to or create groups in contacts on the phone
- can't add a whole group at once to an email "to"or cc or bcc field. have to keep adding one at a time..
- can't insert contact details to a SMS conversation.
- draft emails don't autosave, have lost a few like this.
and boy does it need a usb port, even one that can maybe stick out of the earphone jack as an accessory.
otherwise i love it.
:)c
Message was edited by: Craig Charnock

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

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h4. It would be nice to have richer functionality from the Number class, say to do mathematical operations with them or compare them.
h4. After all, in the real world it is possible to do so.
h4. Real numbers are much like BigDecimal. Why not take the idea of BigDecimal, and make that the parent of Integer, BigInteger, Double, Short, Byte, Float (I'm probably forgetting a few)? All of those are limited forms of real numbers. It would make comparison between Number datatypes easy, would probably remove all of that duplicated arithmetic code between all of the children of Number, and also allow Numbers to be used in powerful generic ways. The parent/replacement of BigDecimal could even be named RealNumber, which stays true to its math domain.
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"For DVDs that will play in DVD players..."
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[email protected] (Orly) writes:
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