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Apple plans to regularly update and improve the functionality of the iPhone on a continuing basis, using iTunes as the delivery mechanism. With these updates, you should not only see new and enhanced features but bug fixes as well.

That last bit of information is very important, for if AppleHound is correct, there are an astounding number of bugs in this first-generation iPhone model—at last count 68.

All the bugs in the list (from minor display issues to application crashes) are reproducible, so the site says, with each one confirmed on two separate iPhones. They’ve submitted all the bugs in the list to Apple for evaluation

There's a couple of caveats to keep in mind when perusing the bug list: AppleHound says some of the iPhone bugs resulted from obscure steps that may not ever be taken during normal usage. Also, some apparent bugs may actually be in line with Apple's iPhone User Interface specifications; hence not bugs after all.

So, in addition to multimedia messaging, instant messaging, flash and Java for Safari, video taking, cut, copy and paste, etc. possibly coming to the iPhone through a series of iTunes-delivered updates, we should also see a number of subtle and not-so-subtle bugs being squashed. Let’s hope that first firmware upgrade arrives soon.

In related news, Julio Ojeda-Zapata from Pioneer Press recently had a couple of chances to speak with the man featured in Apple's iPhone demonstration videos. It turns out his name is Bob Borchers, and his position at Apple is that of senior director of worldwide iPhone product marketing.

Ojeda-Zapata asked Borchers to address several iPhone related topics. So, for example, we find out that iPhone support for AT&T’s pokey 2.5G EDGE network is a hardware issue. This means a simple software upgrade (some would say fix) won't do the trick to add support for the carrier's much faster 3G HSPDA/UTMS network.

As many iPhone users have already found out, yours truly included, the iPhone's headset jack does not support most their-party earphones. That's because the iPhone's jack is more deeply recessed than is usually the case.

Borchers said Apple's decision to go with what is essentially a non-standard implementation of a standard jack was due to a matter of keeping the iPhone thin.

I don't see the connection (no pun intended). It doesn’t seem that the length of the earphone jack would have had any effect on the thickness of the iPhone. The width should stay the same either way, right?