first blush with iPhone 2.0 firmware

Overall, it's very nice.  I'm running version 2.0 on my original iPhone (may get to update to the new one after a week or 2).  There are a number of (very little) things that I already wish I could set though.

• I don't want to be prompted every time I open the a "location aware" application whether it's allowed to know where I am... I want to set a persistent preference... or at least have the option to.
• (update) It appears that it only asks you a few times.  After being prompted maybe 2 or 3 times, it stopped asking and just gives the application access now.  Cool.
• I can't re-order the list of email accounts in the Mail.app... I can't remember if you were able to in the previous version.
• Totally cosmetic, but synchronizing with iCal now gives you separate calendars, but it doesn't sync the color you've set in iCal, and there is no way to configure calendar color on the iPhone
  
  • (update) There may be a very sketchy workaround on this... but it doesn't look like it works
• I'm having issues with a few applications, like Loopt and Evernote crashing frequently.  Hopefully these issues are on the application side and will be fixed with updates. 
• The Google application is a little disappointing... I was hoping for Blogger, or Google Talk, or Picasa, or Reader, or Google Docs... but none of those yet.  So far, it's basically just mobile search, which I don't generally use unless it's via the Google Maps application.

See, just little quibbly things for now.  So for some of the little touches that have stood out so far:

• Some of the apps are already pretty sweet.  Facebook stands out, and so does Weather Bug.  It's nice to see a simple, stupid app like Jared ported over, too. :)
• The built-in screen shot support is pretty cool (as you see above)
• Push email from me.com is working very nice 
• (update) I love that the new version of Mail.app now supports "bcc:" and, even better, changing the "From:" field.  This is huge for me because my work email actually points to Gmail... so up until this version any time I reply to a work message from my iPhone, it comes from my personal Gmail account.  Now I can fix that.

That's all with a very brief look... I'm sure that so much more will emerge soon.  Especially once the majority of people are running the software. I am very curious to see how it will work with MobileMe once that's available.  When I did an upload to Picasa from iPhoto, the geotagging information must have been stripped out... it will be interesting to see if MobileMe starts to take advantage of location awareness right away.