Security and firewalls: The VPN security doesn’t support MSCHP1 or other formats used by Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO - message board). "The Cisco PIX firewall is one of the most popular in the world, and this oversight is causing people huge headaches."

    WiFi security. "Apple requires a '$' to be placed in front of WEP and WPA security keys for any access point that is not an Apple Airport" (i.e, most of the market). This isn't in the manual and isn't easy for the average user to understand anyway. "[Vodafone] wants Apple to rewrite the code to make it 'just work like any normal human would expect.' "

    Web browser improvements: The top complaint is the lack of "cut and paste": "This seems like a relatively easy fix."

    "Not surpising about bug fixes," notes Gartner's Ken Dulaney. "No matter what Apple says, it's a first-generation OS."

    Analyst CarmiLevy at AR Communications Inc. reckons Vodafone may also be looking for one further major upgrade from Apple for the iPhone toot sweet: "Vodafone has been leading the chorus of European carriers for Apple to bring a 3G-capable iPhone to market as soon as it possibly can.

    "The carrier that lands the leading device -- iPhone -- on the fastest, most capable 3G infrastructure will score major market brownie points if AT&T’s experience in the U.S. is anything to go by. In AT&T’s case, its version of the iPhone didn’t -- and still doesn’t -- have 3G capability, but that didn’t seem to stop the masses from breaking down the carrier’s door."