I've recently recieved my 3G iphone. I came from a palm 680... So far web browsing is ok- I had fairly speedy EDGE browsing (WAP/mini-html) on my 680 so it's comparable on the 3g iphone (on 3G/Wifi) but it's full sized and I actuallyu prefer the smaller form web (easier to read). Battery life I think has been great- I've always been data heavy on my PDA (Chatter-email/web on the Palm) so I guess a full day has been about what I am used to (even less than a full day sometime). Having Wifi has been great... The best app so far- Pandora radio- I love it on my desktop and now I love it on my iphone. works great over 3G I used it for about 2 hours this AM and still have pretty good battery left (80%)

I'm sure you aren't the only one.

I'd love to have one, but I don't want to pay $50 - $60 a month to the cell phone company. So, I'm very happy with my unlocked GSM razr using t-mobile to go as my provider which ends up costing me less that $10 a month with my light usage. (Plus the one-time cost of an unlocked GSM phone, you buy 1000 minutes for less than $100 -- discounted a bit online from 3rd parties -- which have a 1 year expiration date. Calls are 10 cents a minute, text messages are 5 cents with the 1000 pre-paid minutes.) My phone is an unlocked quad band GSM phone, so it pretty much works anywhere in the world.

Yes, I am the master of using 4 year old cell phone technology on the cheap, I guess. I also don't think I'm in the iphone target market.

IMO, the iphone service plan means it isn't for everybody. If you are already paying $40 a month for your cell phone plan, then I guess the extra $20 a month for the unlimited data plan isn't that huge of a difference. (It is, and it isn't.)

-David

Fair enough - but I already spend $90/month for my service. The extra $30 is annoying but not insurmountable.

On the other hand, with T-mo now I get 1500 anytime minutes, free nights & weekends, 1000 text/mms messages, and unlimited blackberry data. The iPhone plans don't come close to that.

I'm with you. I have no interest in paying that much for a phone or the service. Call me a troglodyte, but all I want from my phone is to be a phone.

Isn't that a paradox - that's exactly where a high-SAR phone's radiation enters first .

But I agree, I couldn't care less than about the SAR.

The reason why I abstain at this time - the iPhone is a bandwidth hog. If you use it abroad, you will be ruined in no time.
I have yet to find a temperature at which my N95 actually does work. It never reads a GPS signal and finds wireless networks within about 2' distance from the transmitter. The N95 will be my last Nokia phone ever.

Your N95 is broken.

Sure ... only that I swapped it twice already .. and it's not that these functions are missing .. they are just messed up.

Then it's just bizarre I've played with N95s, though I don't own one, and (particularly with the latest firmware) they're quick to lock onto GPS, and fine for wifi across a room.

Funny, Nokias have always been my favorite phones (until I got a Blackberry). I've always experienced them as intuitive to use and capable of holding on to the weakest of signals.

a-GPS requires your cell service. True GPS does not. My HTC Mogul has a-GPS, too, and only works in the Verizon CDMA network (or so they have told me. Verizon is my carrier). I have a bluetooth GPS that I use with Tom Tom Navigator 6 that runs on that phone.

If a phone with A-GPS cannot get location data from the cell network, it will resort to working as a normal GPS unit, searching for satellites just like a "true GPS", as you call it.

A phone with A-GPS does not need network data to work as a GPS unit unless the phone developers f*cked up.
A-GPS units use the info from the cell network to speed up the location fix and increase the accuracy compared to "true GPS" units.
Without the cell network data, an A-GPS unit becomes a "true GPS".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS

the iphone hasn't done much for me, due largely to the lack of a physical qwerty keyboard. i'm waiting for the htc touch pro to come out so i can buy it unlocked. i'm probably in the minority, but winmo doesn't bother me at all. i've been running my tmobile mda overclocked for about a year now. it will burn through the battery faster, but i love being able to say i overclocked my phone.

what i'd like to find is winmo software for uma so that i'm not tied to just the devices tmobile offers for the hotspot at home. so far i've not been able to locate anything.

You can get it sim free on eBay as its been released on Asia. As a bonus, Microsoft have a 25% off offer on their live search for this phone, so the total cost will be 75% of $800..

Same with me.

This is why I want another one. Just never a N95 again.

My GPS takes at least 5 minutes of open skies to compute a location. And while in Buenos Aires, it then planted me in the Mediterranean.

That is the new, replaced version. The first one did not see satellites at all.

The new one see a whole flock of satellites but cannot generate a coordinate from that .