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Call me different, but i for one am underwhekmed by the fact that Apple are coming out with something that technologically has been achieved by all the other mobile phone manufacturers what seems like decades ago!  Yes, what lovely user interfaces they have etc. I'll give them one thing, they are fantastic at getting everyone to talk about it! As a product I am sure it will hold its own amongst the touch screen phones which appeal to the crowd that use these devices more as a luxury that an actual need.  The likes of Nokia, Sony Ericson and Samsung (as we do)have spent a great deal of time learning how people actually use their devices rather than just what seems cool. May be Apple will follow their lead. Now the Xperia, that looks interesting(i dont have shares in Sonyericson btw) but seriously it looks more like it if it performs that is! At least you can really see they have been thinking about it. Now how do you use your phone? I mean really, when you dont think about it? Think about it! Just think! Makes ya tink doesnit?

To answer the previous poster: my phone, I make and receive calls with- nothing more. Oldfashioned, eh? New releases leave me lukewarm. Am only interested if they come up with a nice new design- like the simplicity and cleanness (is that an english word?)of those apple designs.

Let me start with answering this question. How do I used to use my phone? Receiving & making calls of course + very rarely SMS it's dead slow. I never used other features in mobile phone (mp3, internet, games, camera) because they just unsusable! I always wanted a device that can give me few things. Phone+mp3+Internet(proper browser)+Email+Maps+Easy Synchronization. And this is exactly what Apple did. Gave us device that just makes this few things easy. So now you know.. I'm the sucker who paid a lot for the IPhone Edge and now I hope there will be a cheap upgrade to 3G version with GPS :)

i was doing the happy dance when i heard t-mobile got the iphone in netherlands, as KPN is really really crappy ex-state run company...

The iPhone is available free on some tariffs (£45 per month contract). Even the lowest £30 per month contract, you can get the 8GB model for £99!!

This is great value - put me down for a 16Gb in white!

Even those who paid a lot of money for the first generation iPhone get the upgraded functionality (except satellite GPS and 3G) available as a free download.

If you check O2 website you can actually upgrade to the 3g phone for free.

The 30 quid tarif looks a tad pointless to me, its the same price to buy the phone so for the extra £5 a month you get 525 minutes (700% more) and an extra 375 texts (30% more).

im torn between the balck and the white lol, black looks sexy but white is just apple through and through!

No disrespect to the posts above but I think its pretty obvious by the 2.0 SDK that this phone platform will revolutionise the way we use our mobile's.

Yes, there are mobile manufacturers whom have a 5mp camera, 3G etc long ago but thats missing the point.

This really is a truly "do it all device" and although Nokia might have say the N95, the iPhone is rocking some serious hardware under the skin and in many ways, that is what will make it feel like we are carrying round an extension of our PC rather than a mobile.

If you only call or text on a mobile, thats fine.  But surely you can see the benefit of having an MP3 player, email, full screen web browser, video playback, sat nav, nintendo DS quality gaming, global auto syncing of our devices etc etc all in the one gadget?  Plus there will be much more innovation with the 2.0 SDK.

For years it had been predicted that we would all shun our PC's in favour of a "do it all" handheld PC.  I don't think we are a million miles away.  Only my opinion though ;-)

The one and only thing I'd ask of Apple (and many other phone manufacturers) is:

Make a mobile that can fit in your pocket!

I'm pretty sure the clue is in the name, mobile. I laughed when I saw the size of the I-Phone, it's huge. I'm not a tall person, but I'd imagine most people would struggle to fit this into their trouser pockets.

Unless I've been buying trousers with very shallow pockets for a number of years.....

Hi,

Andy, I heard you've got short arms and really deep pockets when you are at the bar....lol.

Doesn't appeal to me much either. Small phone to make calls will do me.

Cheers,

Cofnchtr.

there is no Thailand in that list, why?

Because it obviously isn't up for release in Thailand.

Andy - I have a friend with an iPhone and he has no issue fitting in his trouser pocket. I also regulary carry about my iPod Touch in my pocket which, although thinner, is the same general size as the iPhone...

lambus, it goes on to say that it will be released in a total of 70 countries - that's just the initial launch list.

If iPhone was smaller, it would have made reading emails or web content really difficult. Imagine reading a webpage on a iPod nano's screen.

As for mobility, I have no trouble fitting it in any pocket and it takes less space than a blackberry and iPod and gps.

Good news they are upgrading the devices for free.

Its great news they have finally released a 3G version - cannot understand why they did not do that with the first version. I will now be getting an iPhone.

However, the key issue is still price point. Most people in western and "emerging markets" are used to getting their phone or in most cases even their smart phone for free bundled in with their contract.

90% of mobile subscriber growth last year was in the "emerging markets" this is where the real business opportunity lie in terms of mobile handset sales. The traditional or western markets are stagnating and have on average above 110% penetration levels.

So the likes of Nokia and other handset makers feel no threat whatsoever from even version 2 of the iphone... for further insight on this please check out this article:

themusicvoid.wordpress.com/.../will-apple%e2%80%99s-iphone-penetrate-the-key-mobile-subscriber-growth-markets-and-therefore-become-a-force-to-be-reckoned-with

Cheers,

Jakomi

ahhh but can you make phone calls from it.... as thats what i want a phone you can make a call from anywhere....you will always have a rock solid signal .... anyone made one of them... nope... oh well guess i will settle for some gimmicky phone...........perhaps one that can make a cup of tea for me

I have the first iPhone and love it. it has revolutionised my idea of a portable device.

The only complaint I had was that it was a bit slow on web content even when in EDGE mode, but for e-mails it was fine and the same for all the other functionality.

You have to live with one of these phones to begin to understand how radically different it is to anyone else's smartphone. It begins with the screen, which is the size it is to allow the device to have the range of functionality it has. That said, I think they've sqeezed the technology into a pretty small space. I even have an Agent18 case on mine and it's still small enough to be comfy in my pocket.

Google Maps, the Weather from Yahoo, Shares, Facebook in a format that really works on a small screen and text messages as threads.

There are so many good things that the iPhone does, and that before you even think about using it as an iPod.

Ok, I'd like to be able to forward texts and insert numbers into texts. I'd also like to be able to do a bit more organising of playlists and see more details of songs when showing playlists, but these are minor gripes.

People who whine about the iPhone for the most part don't own one. It's only after you've lived with it for a while that you really start to appreciate how well thought through and integrated the device is. And for all my gripes, in time software upgrades will correct these issues. This is the first phone to upgrade all it's users with meaningful functionality improvements as they develop them.

I wish critics wouldn't try to be quite so cool in putting down a device that in their first go has made the mobile phone industry look slow and clumsy. Well done Apple. (Now if only I could afford one of their laptops!)