SMALL IPHONE ISSUES AS I SEE THEM: Phone, Mail, iChat, Safari, iPod

I love this phone; however, I agree there are some real opportunities for improvement in the software. Many of these (I hope) can be addressed with Software Updates, which Apple has used very well in the past.
PHONE:
1) While in a call I can see my contacts, mail, the net, music, but I can't see my RECENT CALLS. I need to be able to see this.
2) CUSTOM RINGTONES would be so cool, but as some have mentioned, not while I am listening to music. If the phone can be programed to know when I am rocking out and fade out to a beep this would be great. Ringtones would be a major + at all other times when the phone is in any other app but iPod and ready to ring.
3) VOICE DIALING would also be swell. I hope this can be addressed with software as the touchscreen makes the whole drive and dial thing a little unsafe. Voice search would be cool for iTunes too, as drive and decide on a song is not to easy on the touch screen.
4) AT&T ***** if you live in the sticks (like me), but we knew this too.
Besides this, I feel the phone is amazing; but, when it comes to the bottom line, this isn't a phone, its a handheld computer that happens to also have cell phone and music capabilities.
MAIL:
1) I want to type in LANDSCAPE MODE in Mail like I can in Safari on the iPhone. It would be much easier to type with 2 thumbs this way.
All in all, mail is amazing, especially with it being covered under the unlimited data plan. Sending pictures this way is a big plus, but...
ICHAT:
1) I wish I could send photo messages to OTHER MOBILE DEVICES besides iPhones running full-fledge email systems.
2) Again, LANDSCAPE MODE, lets get this incredible feature into iChat as well, as 2 thumbs really only works this way in my experience.
3) AIM, AIM, AIM. Enough said... well, not yet; but soon I hope! Yes you can forward them from AIM, but with only 200 texts (standard) and a pretty steep upgrade for unlimited texts when we have UNLIMITED DATA, I thing we should get this; ESPECIALLY if we have to suffer with EDGE. I think AT&T should provide the support for this within our data plans.
SAFARI MOBILE:
1) WOW. Safari on iPhone is the real deal.
2) ADOBE FLASH would be a cool upgrade, but there is still a lot of quicktime.
3) Lets ditch the mobile site stuff (Bank of America is the one I have noticed). If I can look at the Apple and CNN websites like I can on my computer and even write a review of the iPhone from my iPhone on CNET, why won't sites like BOA let me see, for instance, how much I spent on the iPhone on the 29th on the REAL and MUCH EASIER TO USE SITE when I can look at the real versions of other sites. Well, on second thought, maybe I don't want to see how much I spent on this, but in the future it would be cool to track purchases.
4) I wish I could use something like TABS on Safari (Apple Button + Click Link). It would be cool if I could hold down on the Multiple Window Button (Bottom right hand corner) and click a link and have it start a new page. We have multi touch capability: I've seen it, used it and loved it in Pictures, so lets get this going here too.
IPOD:
1) WOW (again)
2) If I am looking at an artist, a genre, or a playlist even in standard mode and I flick it into landscape mode I have to see all of the covers in my entire library. This used to be a problem in earlier versions of iTunes so I hope they correct it so I only see the covers of the content in the selected list (artist, genre, playlist, etc.
3) I wish I could scroll a little faster through coverflow sometimes, but this is small.
4) I really, really wish that I could download songs from iTunes.
5) Voice search would be cool if they do get around to voice dialing for the phone.
OVERALL:
Apple got it VERY good. The device itself is gorgeous, the interface and the apps are genius, and how it all works to together is the best part. Really, Apple just needs to expand on the wonderful features (especially Landscape in Mail and iChat and Multi Touch for multiple windows in Safari), add some more apps (VOICE, AIM, FLASH, ITUNES), and fix some small oversights (especially the coverflow deal in iPod, because if I am looking at the classic rock genre and I switch to coverflow and see 2pac, its kind of weird).
Really though, I love it.

I agree with you and I just posted a few other items titled "what's missing"

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