One of my early complaints with the first generation iPhone, which remains to this day, was the inability to send my “card” to another iPhone or smartphone user. Just days before the purchase of the Apple phone, I was able to transmit my contact card to any other Windows Mobile or Symbian user via Bluetooth or even Infrared. So why wasn’t this greatest phone ever allowing me this same convenience? Well, with no IR port and a severely retarded Bluetooth stack, it just wasn’t going to happen. What a shame and yet another ding against the Enterprise user by Apple.

Tapulous, a group of guys in Palo Alto (home to Apple CEO Steve Jobs), have thought that iPhones should be able to share contacts. Not just your contact but any of your contacts. The makers of the widely popular Twitter application for the iPhone, Twinkle, will be releasing a new application called friendBook. In its third application for the iPhone (the other the popular game Tap Tap), Tapulous brings a more powerful contacts manager to the iPhone. Not only will one be able to trade contacts, but better manager them right on the iPhone away from the connected computer. Easily find duplicates, merge contacts, and even dial a member of your virtual black book by a picture of the person, friendBook is surely to be a hit once on the App Store.

There is no immediate release date or pricing details for friendBook but rumor has it that the application has already been submitted to Apple and is merely awaiting approval. So look for it through the week and download it quickly! Who knows, Apple may deem this “bad” and remove it like it did Netshare.

So much is being said about the iPhone and how great it will be but interesting enough, those that can truly afford this luxury, Corporate America, is the one being ignored in all the hype. As previously stated on SvenOnTech, the iPhones lack of support for BlackBerry and Exchange Direct-Push is going to be one dubious problem for Steve Jobs to hit that announced 1% of market share by next year (2008.) At a staggering $500 a pop, most tweens are going to be left wishing they had an iPhone instead of owning one. What Steve Jobs forgot to mention at his Keynote back in January was the majority of smartphone buyers are not tweens but rather “suits”. And what are the suits looking for? E-mail. Not Yahoo e-mail, corporate e-mail. You know, stuff that plugs into HQs Exchange server or BlackBerry service without a hitch.

Without support for these two mainstream e-mail services, you can pretty much figure the iPhone is going to have issue maintaining a rise in the market share. Sure, the iPhone is going to sell out on the 29th, but that’s what happens to a limited supplied product on its premiere day after months of hype before it. But when these phones get in the hands of those users and many find no way to connect to their Exchange server, whelp, refreshed stock will be met with returned day-one sold iPhones. Heck, that’s my plan if the iPhone doesn’t support my Exchange server and I know many other professionals will be doing the same thing.

One feature the iPhone is certain not to have is the ability to remotely synchronize like Windows Mobile phones do. Boy, has this been a life saver for me more than once. Out in the middle of no-where, my phone required a hard-reset and gone is all my data. Thankfully I was able to configure my Exchange Server information and in 20 minutes, I had all my contacts, calendar, and e-mail back to where it was previously. Actually, new e-mail had arrived. The iPhone won’t have this luxury and trust me, you’ll have to do a hard-reset on the iPhone, too. As good as Apple is, nothing is perfect.

Topping it off, Apple CEO Steve Jobs stated today at WWDC that they “hope” to have an SDK (developers kit) out for the iPhone (someday?) which basically means that a third-party won’t be able to even make an application to do the Exchange or Blackberry connect if it wanted to. This leaves little hope for Exchange and BlackBerry support. One can only pray that Jobs just felt like not acknowledging the support for personal reasons (hates Microsoft) and professional ones (Yahoo was on stage, not RIM). Honestly, I’m still baffled why Yahoo Mail is even supported at all! But I digress.

In short, I’m not the only one that feels this way. Forbes released a very in depth article stating all the issues with the iPhone (battery, scratches, keyboard, etc.) It’s nice to see not everyone is blinded by the hype.