Forbes says that the iPhone Needs A New Brain. We tend to agree with that assessment. One of the things that kills us in the current iPhone experience is sluggishness. The long pauses between switching apps and startup times for applications are great for a phone but could certainly be improved upon. Applications like Safari take a few seconds to start up, especially if there are other processes running. Mobile Safari is great, but wouldn't it be cool if it could render pages even faster? A faster processor could help.
Remember, even though Apple doesn't support background execution on third party apps, all of the main apps do work in the background. If Mobile Mail is downloading a