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Maybe someone will write drivers so the iPhone can do wireless stereo bluetooth like my Treo.
      http://www.softick.com/bluetooth-audio/

Maybe someone will write drivers so you could use a bluetooth or IR keyboard.

Maybe someone will write drivers so the iPhone can add some storage, like an SD card. May require soldering.

Maybe someone will write drivers so you can change the battery. May also require soldering.

Maddox loves his iPhone. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ip hone

Softick's Card Export program does a great job of transferring files to and from an SD card in your Palm without any added hassle -- the card appears on a PC as USB mass storage.
http://www.softick.com/cardexport2/

Palm really

My main problem with Palm platforms is that out-of-the-box, they are inherently limited in function. They are quite powerfull, don't get me wrong, but they just lack what power users need. Enter the third-party market. After years of using PalmOS devices, I've had a lot of experience trying out the myriad of applications, and after all these years and applications, i came to the conclusion that you really just need some basic add-ons to really make your PalmOS device powerful.

First, purchase and install ZLauncher as an Application Launcher replacement. Yes, it's full of more features than you could possibly need, and its default configuration, in my opinion, is not ideal, but it's a very powerful launcher. Spend some time getting to know it and tweak it to your preferences, and you end up with an environment that is top-notch. And it sports an integrated file manager that is almost second to none.

Next, purchase and install CardExport. When you connect your Palm via USB cable to your PC and run this program, your WIndows XP PC sees the SD card as an external drive with no additional drivers needed--truely plug-and-play. You can now copy files to and from your PC to your heart's content and manage the directory structure to your needs.

Third, purchase and install the latest version of your choice of Documents To Go to manage Word, Excel, and optionally PowerPoint presentations. The latest versions work with native Word and Excel files. This is an excellent tool, and combined with CardExport, you can move files in and out in a heartbeat.

OK, so you have to spend some money, but you end up with a system that is very flexible and very powerful.

And yes, Palm shoule include these features by default, but since they don't, your best bet si to turn to third party apps.

I'm surprised no-one else has mentioned Card Export - It might not be free, but it's the best of all the improvements available.

Card Export simply turns the Palm into a standard SD card drive, accessible on pretty much any computer simply by plugging it in. Yeah, it should have built into PalmOS when USB cables first arrived. Pretty splash screens triumph over simple usability once again.

Palm reminds me of the Amiga story, ten years on. Clueless company completely fails to develop on massive runaway success, enthusiastic fanbase doubles machine's lifespan with creative hacking, eventually killed off by price, incompatibilities, and undeveloped OS as once-crappy competition out-evolves them. [Sighs]

I use CardExport2 from http://www.softick.com/. It cost roughly $15, and allows me to use my Palm Zire 71 as a portable USB drive, recognized as a generic, so no special drivers are required on Linux, Solaris9, *BSD, MacOS, or WinME>later. Oh yeah, there's more. I also downloaded the RealOne player for PalmOS, and with a /AUDIO directory (FAT16) on my removeable SD card I can upload music and playlists without any of the DRM crap that bugs a lot of folks. Palm has their own upload system which won't let you download the music again, but with CardExport2 I can. I was able to find 512MB SD(I) cards on pricewatch for about $24 at one point, so I bought a pile of 'em. Now, my Palm is more of a necessity for me than ever. It's even possible to boot my laptop with knoppix fom my Palm using CardExport2 and this info: http://rz-obrian.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/knoppix-usb/ There you have it. -Dustin Thanks Matthias!

Try Card Export. It exports the SD card in your palm as a usb mass storage drive which you can mount under windows/linux (usb-storage) and access as a normal drive.

I use softick card exporter (site is not responding to me, look for the google cache) which makes the card show up as a USB drive. Under linux it is a scsi device like any other usb card reader and can be mounted and used as a normal drive. When done make sure you sync and unmount !

Don't know about the other ones mentioned as I haven't used them, but Softick Card Export makes the Palm into a USB mass storage device, when used with an SD card. Makes it easy for file transfer, and you don't need drivers installed on the target PC.

Softick Card Export II can do this for older palmOne devices (isn't free though, but it isn't expensive either).

I use card export on my original Tungsten T and it works great. Don't need to install anything on the windows computer and the palms card shows up as a drive in explorer.

Docs To Go in ROM is very nice, VersaMail too, Realplayer, though... that's a prime candidate for replacement if someone really uses their Palm for music...

USB drive mode - very nice, and about time. Nice that http://www.softick.com/ took care of that a long time ago for everyone else...

And I think the Tungsten E will do trickle charging from the USB cable... I'm not positive about that, I don't tend to leave mine lying around, tethered to a computer.