For me, the most unpleasant surprise with Safari on the iPhone was discovering that it does not offer to remember any passwords.
However, for those few small, private sites that still use Basic authentication I can create a bookmark that includes my login credentials. This is a bad idea. I would not recommend it to anyone else but I do it myself in some cases because it makes things easier. Make a bookmark like this:
http://username@password:www.sitename.dom/
Sites using token based authentication have been giving me mixed results. In most cases, as long as I don't actually navigate off the site or close that instance of the browser window I remain logged in to the site. I can go back to the start screen, do something else and return to the logged on session. There does appear to be a time limit beyond which this no longer works. I have not a found a case of 'Remember me on this computer' failing to work indefinitely so this incarnation of Safari appears to be liberal about accepting cookies.
The most pleasant surprise for me was the way reader.mac.com/mobile handles xml files. The mac.com reader does an excellent job of rendering the feed. If you haven't seen it yet, try this link with Safari on your iPhone:
Another pleasant surpise for me was the mobile version of Reuters news site. It is a compact, appealing layout that handles photos perfectly and easily unfolds into much deeper content.
Here is a very short list of links worth checking out with Safari on your iPhone:
http://mobile.reuters.com/
http://www.google.com/notebook/
http://www.google.com/calendar
http://mail.google.com/mail/x/
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