Questions about several iPhone features....

Has anyone figured out how to do any of the following on iPhone?
1. Synchronize Notes in Outlook with Notes on the iPhone.
2. Delete more than one email message at a time.
3. Setup filters per email account to block out SPAM (using a POP or IMAP).
4. Create new folders within an email account. I notice iPhone automatically created a Sent and Trash folder once I started to use email. Can't figure out how to create my own folders.
5. Search names in contacts without using the alphabet list. For example, in my contacts I have only the first name and company name for a contact. Contacts on iPhone appears to sort contacts in the following sequence:
- 1. Last Name
- 2. First Name
- 3. Company Name
I don't remember the First name, but I remember the Company name. However, I can't find this contact in my list since it's listed by first name, which I don't remember. I am hoping there is search option available.
Any help on any or all of these items would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
iPhone Windows XP
iPhone   Windows XP  

Delete more than one email message at a time.
Not possible. Some people turn off the confirm deletion option so they can singly delete faster without having to confirm each time.
Synchronize Notes in Outlook with Notes on the iPhone.
Notes do not sync. Personally I'd like Apple's terrific Notes & drag-able checklist/outliner feature from the Newton (see <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton#Notes">this>)
Search names in contacts without using the alphabet list.
There is no search. You can sort by firstname or lastname. Once you have a lot of contacts, you get the alphabetic rolodex to jump to a certain letter. Would it be useful to enter people and prefix either their firstname or their lastname with their company? Then you'd get some ability to sort a person by their company.
You can ask Apple for iPhone changes via this link:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html Though if you're requesting hardware changes for iPhone v2 you may want to wait a week (or a month?)...they're probably going to be inundated right now by requests for software changes to the current iPhone.

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