March 29th, 2008 With all of this talk about iPhone’s 2.0 release this summer, I must say that I’m quite excited about what the future holds for all of present and future Jesusphone owners out there. Tapping into the creative minds of larger companies along with independent software developers on a level playing field is going to produce some truly compelling applications for the iPhone, that’s for sure. However, while we all drool over what possibilities exist come ‘late June’, I have a bone to pick with the current version of Apple’s Mail application for the iPhone.

I hope that by the time version 2.0 ships, they spend some time shoring up the issues making it’s mail client quite sub par. One of the main issues that I have is pretty minor, but very annoying. There is not one ‘mailbox to rule them all’. In other words, there should be a default inbox that collects mail from all of the accounts that you have on your phone, and display them intermingled with one another.

This behavior is no different from the desktop version of their mail application, and I personally feel that if this sort of behavior would work well anywhere, it’d be on the iPhone. It should not take 3 or 4 taps to get from one accounts’ inbox to another. To fix this problem, Apple could add a toolbar at the bottom of the mail interface.

Imagine a ‘toolbar’ at the bottom,