Quick Observations on iPhone 2.0 Software Update

I've been running the new iPhone 2.0 update on my iPhone. Here are my first impressions.

• The App Store on the phone. It's actually easier to select and/or buy and install applications on the phone than it is in the iTunes store. You select your app and it installs wirelessly, even over the EDGE network. This is the way the phone should work, independent of an attached computer. I'd like the same behavior for iTunes, especially podcast updates.
• Camera integration. Many of the apps, including the Facebook app, smartly integrate the camera. So If want to take a photo and upload it to Facebook, it's very fast. I no longer have to take the photo then e-mail it to a special Facebook e-mail address.
• Geo-Tagging integration. Many of the apps, including the camera and Weather Bug, ask to use the location information from the phone. This is really smart. And since this works so well on my first generation iPhone (2G?), it's all the less reason to get the new iPhone.
• Too many pop-up dialogs. Every time you use an app that wants to use the phone's location, you get a pop-up asking if the phone's location can be included, you get a pop-up dialog asking for permission. There should be a setting allowing all apps to use location by default.
• Changes to the way the Airplane mode works. I use airplane mode all the time to save battery time, and then expect the phone to ask me if I want to turn off airplane mode if I'm checking e-mail or using the browser. In the old operating system, I could turn off airplane mode withe the dialog that appeared. Now the dialog takes me to the wireless settings, and then I have to tunr off airplane mode, and then go back to my original application. This ads about three more screens to the flow.