Oh the iPhone lovers thread, or as they say at Steve Job's poker circle "Life according to Apple"

I recall those billboards of Apple a few years ago with pictures of Ghandi or Einstein or Churchill whose caption was "Think Different"

I also recall a little line from a little show called Seinfeld "Well, sometimes the road less travelled, is less travelled for a reason"

iIn iYour iFace!

I take it you won't be buying an iPhone then, DEVIS?

You've read my mind

Some interesting things people are putting together, from games which run natively (despite lack of SDK) to popular sites like FaceBook putting slick iPhone versions up.

I don't understand what this suppose to mean? My iphone experience has been much better than my TMO Dash (WM6) and BlackBerry.

I get about 2 full days and 1 half day. It varies greatly if you have WiFi and BT turn on and if you are watching videos, using Safari and listening to music often.

Dash (Windows Mobile) and the BB aren't simple consumer products. They are built with the business user in mind rather than the average Joe.
While the iPhone would have been a device I would have jumped at a few years ago, I now see things more from a business prospective. Sorry but the iPhone out of the box just doesn't have the capabilities that a BB or a Windows Mobile device does. I personally have been using WM devices for over 3 years and I haven't looked back not even for a second. In all honesty, your new 500 dollar iPhone cannot hold a candle to my beaten up yet still completely reliable 2 year old HTC Wizard, from a business prospective first and a well rounded pocket entertainment device second.

my iPAQ 6510 is everything the iPhone is plus a GPS. I can change the battery in ten seconds (I keep a charged spare in my pocket), I can type on a real keyboard, and I can run on any GSM carrier in the world.

iPhone, IMO, is an overpriced toy.

The iPhone isn't about what features you can check off of a list.

How much time have you spent using one?

The iPhone lacks the features I have on my list of things used, like cut and paste!

The interface is quite nice but that doesn't overcome the other limitations imposed by the feature set chosen.

What do you need cut and paste for on a smartphone?

e-mail and documents stored locally. Sending a link to someone.

oh, wait, can't store attachments locally on an iPhone either

The 6510 was a POS. Low res square display, no 3G, no exchange push email, no wifi, slow Bluetooth 1.2 etc...

Can hardly compare it to an iPhone.

For entering serial numbers in my warez

It's funny that people are so defensive and have to justify whatever contraption they bought as if it's an extension of their worth as a person.

After nearly a month of having and using daily an iPhone, an N95, and the new HTC Cavalier, I can say - with some authority - that the iPhone is a huge evolutionary step in the way these devices work and the way we interact with them. Even the 1.0 release gets so many things so much "righter" than the Symbian/WinMo platforms there's just not any comparison. The faster data would be nice (and I'm on GPRS here!) but the tradeoff in battery life makes it worth it to me. Bottom line: the iPhone is a joy to use. The Cavalier is the same PITA all WinMo devices are. And the N95 is the perfectly illustrated answer to the question, "Why is Nokia losing so much market share?"

It's such a shame it had be come from Apple.

(FYI: You can send links - and phone numbers - to someone via email or SMS with the iPhone.)