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I played around with my buddies iPhone yesterday (i didnt get one since i use sprint). Its a great step in the next generation of phones but has some issues still that wont get me to switch.
Lack of MMS (no picture mailing unless you email to an email address)
EDGE sucks - way to slow for any sort of cool things (video streaming, fast web page lookup etc)
Lack of software (im sure this will change, games, other things)
but I do have to say the presentation/gui and features that is has works really nice and the screen is freaking amazing it almost looks fake. the iPod function s work pretty well , granted your only dealing with 4 or 8 gigs but still works (its not replacing your 80 gig ipod video)
Another thing I just thought about that sort of sucks is unlike the ipod you cant use it as an external hard drive. Many times I have put big video files or data on my iPod to take it into my office to transfer it off (ie think usb stick) thats a no go.
I spent the weekend with the iPhone and working out video streaming since im doing alot of that tech for a personal project. While on wifi streaming works great, but don't even think about getting anything that doesnt look/sound like crap to stream via EDGE. The cool thing and I think they count alot on this is that it finds wifi hotspots and if you have the key every time u go by that spot it moves into wifi mode for browsing and other net related activites.
be carefull you have to have a personal atnt/cingular account since you cant activate it if yo have a business account with them.
if you want to be the cool kid on the block, get one, if you can wait, i would recommend waiting a generation so they can add in 3g, gps and more software features.
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