It would be nice to have a spell checker provided as out-of-the-box functionality in ArcMap. For example, incorporate the following script into the core software: http://arcscripts.esri.com/details.asp?dbid=12384

The ArcGIS Mobile map control and cache should support or honor the label placement settings as defined in the MXD for the mobile map service. Alternatively, there should be some mechanism specific to Mobile that allows you to control label placement in the Map control/cache.

Here is a screen shot showing the labels as placed by ArcMap, and then within the Mobile map control (note how in the Mobile map the labels are simply centered above the point - this is not the intended placement).

If we would like to connect an on-premise ArcGIS Server from ArcGIS Smartphone apps, we have to make a mobile web map using the Mobile Content Directory. Making a mobile web map is not easy, because during making a mobile web map, it needs a JSON string however the specification is not exposed anywhere, and we only see a document on http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgismobile/10.0/apis/iphone/AppGuide/Maps.pdf.

According to the document, we can get a JSON string easily when we make a map in ArcGIS Online. But, this is non-sense, because users who want to use on-premise ArcGIS Server in secure network, and I believe they don't want to make a map in ArcGIS Online.

So, there are two suggestions for this issue. First, please share the specification of the JSON format for writing a mobile web map without using ArcGIS Online. Second, I think more better thing is that the Mobile Content Directory should have a capability to make a mobile web map without a JSON string. I mean the Mobile Content Directory should contain own viewer like the ArcGIS.com viewer to authoring and publishing a mobile web map.