NO MMS

NO Cut and Paste

NO Video Recording

NO Voice Dialing

NO Stereo Bluetooth and A2DP

NO 3G Music Downloads

Why would anyone get this piece of junk that doesn't have these basic features almost all other phones, even cheap ones, have?

If you want touchscreen get an HTC and tell AT&T to bugger off.

Well, first it was because the iphone can not be unlocked, legally.

Well, now I won't be able to get an iphone for over 2 years because of the contract that I have with AT&T that prevents me from purchasing a new phone until the 2nd year of the contract.

I was truly hoping that I would be able to go and plunk my hard earned money down at the local Apple store (over 2 hours away) and add it to my current plan. Well, now I have been denied that option because I have to have a 'new' 2-year contract with AT&T to get the fantastic quoted pricing. I'm already paying over $200 per month for the gracious 'package pricing' from AT&T that includes my cell phone.

This coupled with the fact that AT&T is spending millions of dollars on lobbyists to avoid prosecution for illegally violating applicable laws by recklessly recording and distributing information from the citizens of the United States private telephone and internet communications makes me really hesitant to even want to get an iphone even if I could just go and add it to my account.

To read AT&T's press release is to read it and see the glee that the corporation is taking at finally having the tiger by the tail and not have to share the cream of the no doubt phenomenally successful iphone's effects on their bottom line. I don't want to add to that bottom line. I don't want to encourage the illegality that is the crimes of our government and the crimes of those that callously discard major component parts of the founding documents of this great country.

We are a country that is based on laws and a legal system that has respected the privacy and legal right of its citizens from being interfered with or spied upon by the government that governs this great country.

A fundamental right of the governed in this country is to be free from the continual and purposeless wholesale spying of the governing. In a time where anything that can be discovered can be used against that person by the governing, there is a huge imbalance in the treatment of the governed. I can not, in all good conscience, submit to nor support the illegality perpetrated by the Bush administration and AT&T and others.

I WILL NOT PURCHASE AN IPHONE. I WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO A CORPORATION THAT WILL TREAT MY PRIVACY WITH SUCH MALICE AND CARELESSNESS.

I know it wasn't a phone, but wasn't that the first touchscreen equipped gadget available?

That's the first one I remember. I liked them. Can't wait to get the new iPhone - I hate my current (LG) phone!

No jailbreaking on this one. It won't be sold without a contract. You can take it home and activate it at home, but only if (a) you pay with a credit card, and (b) sign a contract authorizing a much larger charge (rumor is $400-500) if you don't activate within 30 days. So, I suppose you could jailbreak it, but then it's a $600-700 device.

Uhh...what?

Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Palm and HTC all had touchscreen phones out well before the iPhone.

Re: GPS Tracking System--There is nothing like eating breakfast with your nerd boyfriend as he sits across the table from you at Denny's, holding his iPhone in his hands murmuring to himself, "Look! There we are!!!"

...but a lousy phone. You can't hear the ring, your ear turns on the mute button by accident, and it's the furthest thing from ergometric. It's great on the web, though, and for email on the road. So, I'll be in line for the new, faster, cheaper one.

If Apple didn't come out with a touchscreen nobody else would have? I guess...if you want to reinvent history.

Using the many other phones that have had the features of the new iPhone for years is like "swiming with rocks in your pockets"? Um...okay....

I'm not switching from T-Mobile. When it gets jailbroken, we'll talk.

I didn't plunk down for an "ego-toy..." because I can't afford to. For me this thing has been pure small-business satisfaction. I have the freedom to move around, leave my desk, find directions to meetings, take photos of white-board notes, keep up on my schedule, browse the web for pertinent info, all while getting uninterrupted email contact with my many clients. Since I'm in the creative industry and already use a Mac & .Mac it was easy as pie to get up and running. It's shocking to me how much this thing has improved my daily existence.

If I were to put a dollar value on it I'd say my phone makes me at least $500/month by keeping me more productive and flexible in my time and giving me more billable hours. (So subtract the $100/mo phone bill and spread out the $400 cost over the nine months I've owned it the thing has netted me $3200).

Now I'm going to have to figure out which of my iPhoneless pals is going to receive the gift of my iPhone 1.0. (I think most people already pay about $100/mo for cell phone service anyway. no?)

Don't have the UI of the iPhone.

Love the price drop. I'll be in line July 11 for a 16GB, bye bye to the Treo and Sprint.

Super Monkey Ball looks amazing . . . but what I really want to see on the iPhone (or anywhere for that matter) is Crayon Physics Deluxe.

chris49068,

Touchscreen was invented by and first used on the phone by LG.

Apple was first in US, which is still way behind in technology.

Europe and Japan have been 3G for two years now, and are already video-conferencing, GPSing and getting live video feeds from the Net.