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1) API and development environment. Since it runs OSX, I presume they’ll have a rich ecosystem for third party developers. To what degree are they allowing access to phone internals, most specifically, location awareness?

2) Ringtones: can you set one of your songs as a ringtone? I presume you SHOULD be, but will they capitulate to cash-cow?

3) Sync/integration OTA: will this utilize .Mac or is this going to be also working with the iCal Server and collaboration suite in Leopard? If so, this will open a third-party ecosystem for hosted iPhone/Mac sync/group calendaring. That is good thing.

4) Unlockability? I give it a week before its unlocked.

5) OSX API capabilities: will it have the full suite? How scaled back is the kernel?

6) Device/Device communiction: will iPhones talk a special language to other iPhones? Will they be able to beam other devices on Wi-Fi photos, etc? Music? These things can operate in ad-hoc mode I presume.

7) Is Apple going to only do side-loading of content from iTunes Music Store or OTA?
Will the iPhone retain hardware parity w/ OSX in terms of things like bluetooth GPS receivers, headsets, etc? Will Google Maps work with a bluetooth GPS receiver to make this geek extremely happy?

9) Will the camera interface retain iPhoto editing capabilities, and will it support video? If so, with third party support, we could have Shozu to the tenth power.

10) Command line? Anyone? If its running OSX, this means, like the Zaurus, in theory you could have any Unix application running, which in theory means you could have Apache running, which in theory means all geeks should bow down to the web server phone.

More as I think of them. Oh, and Zune? Nice knowing you.

UPDATE:

11) Native iChat w/ agnostic TCP/IP (meaning Edge or Wi-Fi as available)?

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