Out of curiosity how old r u?. I didn't know there were girls into gadgets let alone ones that kinda sound like they know what they're talking about...... definitley not where I'm from

The iPhone is a very fine piece of technology. In fact, I'd go as far as to say it's the best handheld converged computing and telecommunications device I have ever used (and I've tried a few).

But, and here's why I am seriously questioning your intellectual capacity, most of what it does has been done before, by other handsets.

The first touch screen only smartphone I owned was the Qtek 1010, built by HTC in 2002, running MS Pocket PC Phone Edition. In 2004, the 1010 was replaced by the Qtek S100, also a touch screen device running a Microsoft OS.

Most of what the iPhone can do was available on Mirosoft phone devices in 2002. It didn't look nearly as good or perform nearly as well, but most of the basic functionality was there. Apple even licensed the abysmal Exchange mobile push technology in favor of using the more robust, less battery draining open source solution of IMAP Idle.

And there are loads of things that MS devices have been doing for years that the iPhone just fails to perform. Like copy-paste, video calls, A2DP, BT contact beaming.

The capacative touch screen, the responsiveness and usability of the interface, and the simplistic design makes the iPhone a remarkable device that I feel no desire to replace with any of the current "competitors". But apart from that, it does not do anything out of the ordinary.

They'd rather just continue suffering than admit defeat. Since we don't have that problem, we never visit their sites because we're not interested in anything they have... but they ARE interested in what we have.

The Pre will suck, of course, like everything else not made by Apple.

Poor baztards.

Let's just look at several things the Iphone wasn't first to do and claim others who do them are ripping off Iphone ideas.

Best of luck with all your fapping.

This phone looks...boring something from like 4 years ago.

The only phone i like is the PRE ^_^ but don't think it can stand against the iphone i doubt people would cancel their contract for it.

Apple makes great products - I own quite a few including an iPhone - but please stop pretending like Apple invented every product / service out there and everyone else is just copying them. In many cases Apple offers the best and most user friendly of what's out there, and just like the original Mac OS Apple saw the true potential of something that already existed. However, Apple didn't invent wireless Sync, touchscreen phones, or even multi-touch. They were first to market with an all touchscreen phone and deserve a lot of credit for that, but quit pretending like they are the only one to ever have the idea.

Exactly. They never do change for competition. They simply ignore people's stupid ideas and let the competition cater to them.