Hello,
You can use whichever variables you want (e.g. greek letters, just swipe the keyboard to the right), and polar plotting is also available. You just have to e.g. write down the Laplace operator in spherical coordinates yourself (e.g. 1/r*diff(r*diff(f,r),r)+1/r^2*diff(diff(f,phi),phi)
I have added support for other coordinates to the wishlist, though.
Cheers
Daniel