I had a touchscreen phone about 2 or 3 years ago (t-mobile pocketpc phone edition). You might want to check that stat. Perhaps because the iPhone is touchscreen only? Mine had a couple physical buttons on it as well.

I didn't like have a touch screen. I had to look at it to dial numbers. Definitely a PITA in the car (it's going to cause accidents, for sure).

My only issue is that I find it troubling that Apple are willing to work with a German Automaker for in car GPS (a current rumor of Apple building GPS systems for Mercedes....), but were not at all interested in working with T-Mobile, a more than willing partner, when it came to the iPhone.

That decision alone would have given them both United States and European coverage, and they chose instead to go with AT&T.

WHY?

Becase AT&T has a partnership with DoCoMo in Japan? What has that proffered AT&T? They still have not completely implimented 3G here in the United States, which was the initial point of that partnership and the main reason as to why the iPhone is only 2.5G so what do they gain by that decision?

For the internet functions, Verizon would have been a better choice, and I say that being a proud T-Mobile customer utilizing a blackberry pearl I am quite happy with.

I LEFT AT&T, having been a NEW CINGULAR CUSTOMER (so that story about their problems being from previous AT&T customers is bull pucky), due to their shoddy service and the fact they wanted more and gave you nothing for it. I GLADLY pay $50 more a month to T-Mobile than I did with AT&T due to what they offer me.

I understand the need for Visual Voicemail being done with the provider, I just detest thier choice of provider.

Bad move Apple.

Interesting take on the iPhone…iMutate and Mutational Magic software development, pretty funny

http://71.18.81.225/Pretty%20Blue%20Planet%20-%20Evolution ry%20Software%20Development.pdf

Interesting article but poorly written. Examples include:

"If this is truth" justice, or the American way? (Taken from Superman) How about "If this is true…"

"Nevertheless, looking at the 100 million of iPod players sold, it can be expected that the company does have ambitions to sell a huge amount of various iPhone models eventually."

Perhaps we should place the word eventually to read "… the company does have plans to eventually sell…"


However, the success of Apple’s iPod media players was primarily conditioned by availability of inexpensive iPod mini. Conditioned hmm I guess they use in the same breath as "impacted".

"Apple has sold about 100 million iPod players in approximately six years time." This sentence mixes tenses, Ouch!


"Considering that music-oriented mobile phones outsell digital media players by the factor of three…" How about "by a factor of three to one. Otherwise this mathematically-challenged puppy reads this as meaning that for every 100 mp3 players there are 103 mobile phones sold. Hmmm!

Sweet, glorious specs of the 11.6 millimeter device (that's frickin' thin, by the way) include a 3.5-inch 480 x 320 touchscreen display with multi-touch support and a proximity sensor to turn off the screen when it's close to your face

http://www.mp4-converter.net/iphone-converter/

the iPhone looks amazing, and it probably feels amazing in the palm of your hand, too. It's sleek, curvy, shiny, and sexy,with on-screen icons and buttons that just ooze and drip class.

http://www.avi-converter.net/avi_to_iphone/

Here's the thing about the iPhone I'd like to know. Is it any good at making phone calls? I've had Windows Mobile devices for a couple of years now, and to be honest, the killer feature is the phone.

I don't care how much snazzy crap you put on it, a 3" sucks for statndard web pages, plain and simple because now matter what you trick you throw at it, you can't see the entire page at once and read it. And then there's network speed. All the tricks in the world don't make up for slow networking speed, and EDGE sucks compared to EVDO Rev A.

The average sequal is a poor imitation of the original. The iPhone comes to a crowded market, with lots of choice, dependency on the network carrier, and technology that's still iffy at best (broadband celluar networks). While the iPod was really a new and fresh product in a gadget market, the iPhone might have some freshness to it, but at the same time need to be a mature, solid product from day one. I'd be FAR more concerned about voice dialing and bluetooth headset performance than playing YouTube videos.