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iPhone Thoughts via Engadget
The mobile version of OS X or whatever it is the iPhone runs takes up 700MB of the device's capacity. Damn son!

I can understand how this might ruffle some feathers and how most cell phone operating systems are much smaller then this. But when you think about it, this is in-fact running OS X not some slimmed down crummy mobile OS. It's to bad the iPhone comes in such small sizes though because that's about 1/4 the entire storage space on the 4GB model and about 1/8th of your storage space on the 8GB model. I don't think it would be that bad had Apple put larger amount of storage into the device (15-20GB).

There's no way to cut, copy, or paste text! WHOA! Big, big mistake.

This is something I don't think I will have to much an issue with. I am definitely seeing that other people who doing a lot of text input having some issues with this. I am sure there will come a time when I wished the iPhone had this ability but I do not see it as a major concern right at the moment.

No A2DP support. That, friends, is such a huge bummer right there.

I actually had no idea what A2DP until reading this article. I searched and found an answer and while that technology sounds great, I again don't look at it as being a major concern of not being implemented right now.

Sorry, music can't be used as a ringtone -- even if it's just a raw MP3. No additional ringtones will be sold at launch.

This is something I can agree with. I wish that you could use your own MP3s as ringtones. While it's not a major deal, it's just something cool that should be implemented. I can definitely deal with the built-in ringtones for now. I personally hate hearing people with the latest gangster rap songs as their ringtone.

On a PC the iPhone syncs with Outlook for calendars AND addresses! Noice.

Nothing I really car about, I don't use Outlook or Windows. Great for Windows users though. I would expect this if they're going to say it works with Windows.

It supports Exchange in some capacity, according to Walt, but he doesn't exactly say how.

Again nothing I care much about, but it's great that it's there.

Pogue again confirms document file reading -- but not editing -- for PDF, Word, and Excel (only).

I had actually had been wondering if the iPhone could view PDF files, I have a few eBooks in the PDF format so this is great news. I don't plan on getting Word or Excel files on my iPhone so it's not much of a big deal for me. The only writing I plan on doing on the iPhone is quick notes and todos which can be accomplished through the notes application. I am wondering how that would sync if at all with OS X.

Adobe Flash support is officially out. It's just not in the browser. Neither is there any other kind of embedded video support. Sorry everybody, that's that.

This is a disappointment to me, cause I could definitely see myself playing some flash games on the iPhone. I am sure there's more then enough (and plenty more coming) YouTube videos converted for the iPhone. This also means I can't watch Foamys Tech support videos.

It will take snaps, but won't record video. How can Apple love YouTube as much as it does and not realize cellphone-shot movies make up a sizeable chunk of the crazy crap you find on there?

I am not to worried about the iPhone's inability to record video. As long is can take some pictures, I'm fine with that. It is a phone after all not a video camera. I do see a video recording feature being implemented in the second revision of the phone, along more storage space to hold video.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/iphone-facts-from-the-first-reviews/