The last thing this world needs is another iPhone review....especially by someone like me who is not the target market, who doesn't own (and won't own) a "competing" product...basically I'm someone who should just shutup and move along. But that's never stopped me before.
But other than the above use...that's all I want from my mobile phone. Or more accurately, that's all I'm willing to pay for. Our family plan has 400 minutes per month and we traditionally roll off about 375 of them. The Qwest plan allows for free calls between the 4 mobiles and our home phone...which represents over 75% of our calls. And I can't see Apple/AT&T coming u
p with anything close to this. And I won't pay that much for the handset. I like the fact that I can toss my phone in my bag or stuff it in my pocket. I sincerely doubt an iPhone would be able to handle this type of (ab)use.
When the iPhone came out, we happened to be at Aspen Grove Shopping "Resort" doing a little window shopping and generally wandering aimlessly. Fortunately for me, it's not a tough sale to get Kristie and the girls to come into the Apple Store. They're as interested in this junk as I am...
So we all waited for a couple of minutes and individually started messing around with Apple's latest and greatest. In short: very nice. Liked that it's an iPod. Very cute how it browses the web (but both Kelly and I couldn't get GMail to work). Google Maps was awesome. Browsing your photographs was neat. Decent camera. But its biggest feature, the fact that it's a phone....um, don't really have an opinion.
I currently use and abuse a Sanyo PC-2300, the cheapest phone you can get from Qwest. No 
camera. No web connection. No games. No nothing. And as you can see by these pictures, I do abuse it. The little display on the outside has a big crack in it. The color display on the inside has a bunch of bad pixels. But it gets calls and send calls. I can SMS with it and since I've figured out how to make the Google Calendar/SMS thing to work, I can have my calendar on it. (Love the whole Google/SMS feature set...another reason why I love Google). About the only thing I'd really like to have: I'd like to be able to back up my phone numbers somewhere. If I get another phone, I'll have to move my address book manually. If this phone goes out before then....I start all over. Maybe Google can solve that one too.....
camera. No web connection. No games. No nothing. And as you can see by these pictures, I do abuse it. The little display on the outside has a big crack in it. The color display on the inside has a bunch of bad pixels. But it gets calls and send calls. I can SMS with it and since I've figured out how to make the Google Calendar/SMS thing to work, I can have my calendar on it. (Love the whole Google/SMS feature set...another reason why I love Google). About the only thing I'd really like to have: I'd like to be able to back up my phone numbers somewhere. If I get another phone, I'll have to move my address book manually. If this phone goes out before then....I start all over. Maybe Google can solve that one too.....But other than the above use...that's all I want from my mobile phone. Or more accurately, that's all I'm willing to pay for. Our family plan has 400 minutes per month and we traditionally roll off about 375 of them. The Qwest plan allows for free calls between the 4 mobiles and our home phone...which represents over 75% of our calls. And I can't see Apple/AT&T coming up with anything close to this. And I won't pay that much for the handset. I like the fact that I can toss my phone in my bag or stuff it in my pocket. I sincerely doubt an iPhone would be able to handle this type of (ab)use.But imagine Apple comes up with a full screen iPod that looks like this thing? I want one. I'm in the market to replace my venerable old iPod Mini. If they sneak in the WiFi connection stuff? I'm even more interested. A camera? Maybe/maybe not. But not a phone. It doesn't solve a problem for me. Or more appropriately, I'm unwilling to admit that I have a problem that the money I would spend on an iPhone would "solve".