said by wmcbrine :

There's no reason to pay that. Nor to wait in line. Apple will keep making these as long as they sell. It's not a limited edition. The worst that happens is that you wait a few weeks... but probably not even that. (So, in other words, these people are nuts.)

But, having seen the iPhone and seen other phones, there aren't nine other phones that can do what it does, nor even one, at any price.

said by tc1uscg :

But there are 9 phones that can do what the whyPhone can't.

said by wmcbrine :

Yeah, sure. But no sense of aesthetics in any of them. How nice is it to download at 3g speeds, when it means you have to view the result on a Windows CE device?

The iPhone isn't perfect. It's just radically better... scratch that... it's really just in a different category. If the iPhone is what you want, you will not be remotely happy with any of the nine. And possibly, if you need something like GPS, you won't be satisfied with the iPhone. But if you had one, and traded it for one of the nine, I think you'd regret it.

said by tc1uscg :

It's slow, clunky and costly.

I can pretty much bet if the phone was from, say Creative Labs, there wouldn't be much, if any, media frenzy about it.

It just appears that when apple takes a dump, there are scores of people standing around to say "oh my god, what a new inovative pile of poop.

said by wmcbrine :

You can call it many things, but "clunky" is not one of them. It's really not slow, either, except for the Edge thing (and it also does WiFi) -- 620 MHz ARM processor.

Indeed not, because there's zero chance that Creative Labs would ever produce anything like it.

And scores of other people standing around waiting to declare any new Apple product "poop", no matter how Insanely Great it really is.