Falkirk is the only one who has posted that has given a fair well spoke and educated rebuttal to the over all purpose of this particular article.

I haven’t bought into all the iPhone hype but I will say I like the author of this article want to have any and all fact, myths whatever else is necessary before purchasing something. Would you deliberate the purchase of a house or car any more or less so than consumer electronics surely not. I choose not to be an early adopter of most technology and the iPhone is one that I am still waiting to get on the bandwagon with.I prefer to be a late adopter as I want to know that a majority of the bugs have been worked out and whatever product I plan on buying is going to be stable.

Personally I have been tuning in every week to listen to Dave and Rich and I value what they have to say about tech related information it sure has aided me in making a better decision perhaps in a graphics card.

I also had someone Stumble me and gave my site a bad review said the site sucked and that my theme was horrible. Yet I get over 1200 hits per day. Guess you can’t please everyone. In my defense my theme works for me and does what I need it to do.

Who the hell cares what phone you use, what computer you use, what console you use, or what OS you use. For christ’s sake, it just doesn’t matter. Fanboys will always be fanboys and people will always defend their purchase decisions because they don’t want to look stupid. Let it go.

Fact is, every cell phone is crap, every computer is crap, every OS is crap and every console is crap. People have come to expect and accept crap products and, even worse, defend them. The marketing department and shareholder bank accounts have you…they own you.

1) I’ve never had any trouble with the iPhone battery and I can’t compare it to any other phone so I have no opinion good or ill on this matter.

2) The iPhone has a proximity sensor that automatically locks up when the phone is placed next to the face. When the phone is taken away from the face the buttons, such as mute, keypad, etc. become active. I’ve never had any issue pushing buttons by accident.

3) There is a lot of misinformation concerning typing on the iPhone. People who love the phone say it’s great and people who hate the iPhone say it’s terrible. The truth is that it’s an acquired taste. Without a doubt it is harder, initially, to type on an iPhone. There have been several studies conducted that show that the learning curve is steep in the beginning but that those who stick with it learn to type as quickly on the virtual keypad as well as they did on the tactile keypad.

My advice is that if typing is the most important thing to you, you might want to stick with your physical keypad. For everyone else the typing issue disappears with time.

4) The pricing issue has been addressed. From the charts I’ve seen the iPhone 3G is about $150 more expensive over a two year period than the original iPhone but both are slightly cheaper than some of the iPhone competitors. It appears that it’s human nature to only look at the short term costs. Most people don’t calculate in the cost of the data plan. They look at the new Sprint phone and see $129 and look at the the IPhone 3G and see $199 and say the Sprint is cheaper. Unless the long term costs are significantly different, I think it makes sense to only look at the short term cost of ownership since that is what consumers do.

I’m surprised that the author of the original piece called the multitouch clunky. For me, it’s a gimmick when it comes to photos. A definite “wow” feature to show off to friends. But it’s a godsend when it comes to the internet. You go to a web page, double tap and voila, the content you want fills 100% of the screen.

To me, this is the essence of the iPhone. It’s the best mobile web browser on the market by far. The phone and the iTunes integration are are good, but nothing to shout about.

However, I think the iPhone is about to step it up and move into the mobile computing platform stratosphere with the unleashing of the App Store and associated third party applications. If you’re seriously on the fence regarding buying an iPhone I urge you to wait until after July 11th and reevaluate your decision once you see the thousands of applications that instantly become available. I promise you, it’s going to be a game changer.

There are so many good browser for windows mobile such as skyfire. Skyfire is the best browser out there. If you wanted to watch youtube videos, you could use skyfire and watch them as in your desktop. It is amazing.

What about the ms word, excel, power point files. Iphone is garbage about that. Even palm centro is better handling those type of files as well as pdf files.

Don’t buy the iphone, it is completed overrated for people that don’t have idea about smartphones or business phones. This phone is just like a fashion propaganda and they want to sell it as the “revolution” item in the industry. Give me a break. Revolution of what.

Before their browser, opera mini and opera mobile already existed and touch screen also existed.

Many people that write about the iphone are clueless about the business or smartphone advance and that is the reason of this stupid overrated, plus the Microsoft haters, of course.

1) I have a 1.0 iPhone and the battery has NEVER died on me… not once. This despite using it WAY more than any other phone I’ve ever used, and using it for more battery intensive functions too – like surfing the web, watching video, and listening to hours of continuous music.

2) Anyone with even a passink knowledge of the iPhone would know that its impossible to “accidentally press buttons” while on a call. When the phone is against your ear it automatically detects it and TURNS OFF THE KEYPAD (just like the salesperson said). When you move it away from your ear, it detects that and only then displays the mute, keypad, and other options.

3) Typing on the iPhone is absolutely the best experience I’ve ever had for entering data on a mobile device. I mean the keyboard is context sensitive… that’s impossible with a physical keyboard.

4) He already corrected his pricing, which was completely wrong also.

So, why post this FUD at all? Just desperate to remove any semblance of credibility from your site? Mission accomplished.

Never have I “accidently” pressed buttons on the iPhone while on a call. That’s complete crap.

While I do prefer a QWERTY keyboard, the iPhone keyboard is still fine for email and texting. If you are writing a book, then it’s probably not right for you.

Have you seen the plans at Verizon? Granted, their service is better than AT&T, but their data plans are more expensive.

Finally, the LG Voyager? I think you are the first to say that “it fills all the holes of the iPhone”. That’s laughable along with your argument.

what this post tells me is you were either bored or totally lacking any ideas, so you posted someone else’s email. a voyager’s fanboy e-mail. with terrible language included, and utterly uninformed. the language, by the way, fully represents you (since you didn’t edit it.)

I just stumbled onto this accidentally from a search result page. it’s sad!