Some missing Android features.

Android is Google's operating system for mobile devices, initially smartphones but perhaps others. There are several very big over sights in my opinion.:-

Firstly is the inability to search your calendar. Surely not! I hear you gasp. Oh yes, it's true, unless you have a HTC Hero, with HTC's modified android applications, you are unable to search your calendar.

So, here is the link to the google code bug I filed about it. When I filed this bug , Android was at version 1.1 so perhaps it was fine for it not to be included. Now we are at version 2.1 on some devices! If Android want to compete with the Blackberry or iPhones of this world then they must include this basic feature very quickly.
Please check it out, comment and be sure to 'star' the issue so it gets the attention it deserves from the android developers.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2518&can=5&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars
By the way, the search facility is implemented in iPhone version 3.0 and above software.
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Next up, not as serious but still very inconvenient is the lack of 'click-to-dial' in email messages.
One of the reasons I switched from iPhone to Android was because I use the calendar application a lot and found it was not possible on the iPhone to click on a phone number in the description or body of a calendar entry and have the phone dial for you. This feature was already there in the early version of Android 1.1 and so this was one of the factors that made me move.
Now further down the line, I realise that a phone number sent to you in an email, is not 'click able' in Android!
This was possible on the early version of the iPhone, pre version 3.0 software. Now the iPhone wins, you are able to click-to-dial on numbers both in email and calendar.
Yes you guessed it, I have an android bug filed.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2383&can=5&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars
Please visit that link, comment or at least 'star' it, thanks.
[Update. Just checked this on a HTC Hero and it seems to work! It does not work on my G1 though.)
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