Looks very cool, but not $499-599 (plus two-year service plan!) cool. Kinda like the first iPods, you'll get a lot more for a lot less later on.

At least that's what I'm waiting for.

Alot of people are asking me if I want one, since my birthday is Sunday...personally, I rather have an xbox360, an adapter for my PC LCD, and Gears.

Personally, I'll wait. In two years they'll have a 20gb iPhone for the same price. Watch.

Wow, everyone kinda crapped on Ulairi there.

But, I agree with Legion. I think it's cool, just not $499 - $599 cool.

Good for you, Ulairi, on getting one, I'm glad that it's working well for you. It looks like a device that would be a ton of fun to play with.

How much does the service run you? They look cool to me, but I can't afford one. Even if I could I see myself messing with it while I'm out and about and getting mugged for it.

What is their rationale on releasing a 4gb versions as well? I can't imagine it being very popular.

Yeah, I'm waiting for the Mach 3 version. Apple's third and fourth wave models are always ten to fifty times better than the first wave.

I'll wait for the rip offs that don't tie me to iTunes.

The iPhone looks nice, but it's definitely overpriced right now. UMTS support is a standard feature, which pretty much any cellie over here offers by now - the iPhone doesn't. Same for memory card slots. And the point that you'll be forced to sign up at a specific carrier - which people usually don't factor in in terms of pricing - doesn't make it appealing either. I simply can't justify spending to much money on hardware and subscription for something that lacks some standard aspects. Not to mention the point that everyone who buys one now gets to beta-test that thing. In one or two years from now on there'll be versions that a) are cheaper, b) got the first-gen flaws ironed out c) feature aforementioned aspects and d) let me pick the phone carrier of my choice - and that's when it'll be more interesting to me.

Always glad to see more competition around, wish Apple hadn't teamed up with just one particular carrier though. Same will be done over here, and it'll be only one of the big carriers to get that advantage.

You can say that with any tech.. its always better/faster/cheaper in a few years.. with that rationale you'd never buy anything..

That being said I bought mine this morning.. still on hold with AT&T trying to get it activated.. 1 hour and counting..

bleh.

I think its cool you got an iphone, they are pretty neat little devices.
I doubt I'll pick one up for a couple of reasons.

1) I don't want to switch providers
2) They do not have an open operating system, so I can't put Ethereal, and Nmap on it.

I think it's great that you didn't wait in line for five days for a phone, you'll enjoy it and you didn't stand outside with a bunch of dirty people, that's the most important thing.

The love in here brought a tear to my eye...

You should be able to activate it in iTunes, no call to AT&T necessary. Did that system fail on you?

Yes.

Bollocks. You simply don't have to buy something the minute it becomes available. Let others do the testing and have the manufacturers iron potential flaws out and grab it eventually. Why would anyone have to buy let's say Windows Vista on day one? Sure, at some point most of us will do the switch, but it's way more comfortable doing that after a year or two, with a stable and solid set of drivers around and Microsoft having provided a first service pack. If you were one of the first people to go for HDTV, you missed out on standards the industry had not defined yet at that point (HDMI, HDCP etc. etc. etc.). I have not a single doubt will provide UMTS support at some point, because that is already way more common over here - it's not like Macbooks only have USB 1.1 and 56k modems. If one waits for that specific feature, one is pretty much set, because it's not like the next cellie standard will be around in the year after that.

Yes the system is failing lots of people. I had a corporate discount on my previous plan, which the pamphlet said in ineligible for the plan. Fine. But what isn't on the pamphlet is the fact that you have to call 3 different departments at AT&T to take that flag off of your account and then, like any brand new MMO, people are crashing the registration servers right now, and it was told to me 4-24 hours of processing time to get my phone activated. AND my current phone no longer works.

Other than the registration headaches, the iPhone is really cool, and yes there will be better ones in the future, but this by far is the coolest gadget to have come out in years..

I wouldn't mind one. The interface looks good. Only problems, apart from any UK release date, are that the thing is a mugger-magnet, concerns about privacy with Google apps and the fact I'd look like a twat that's buying it because it's an Apple, rather than because it's any good.