[dh]

I'm sure I'm going to end up an iPhone owner by the end of this year. I've had my HP 6940 phone for a couple of years now and I've never been totally thrilled but haven't found anything that would be better for me.

My wife uses an iPhone and I've never been tempted to get my own because of the lack of good apps. However, with WebIS making PI for iP and now MS looking to get in, things could change quickly. All I'll need is a good eBook reader (can't wait to use that great screen for reading instead of the crappy low res square HP screen), an RSS Reader and a good notes app and I'll have everything I need.

So as much as I hate the Apple BS, iPhone is really looking to be the way to go.

Cheers!
David

[dh]

I'm sure I'm going to end up an iPhone owner by the end of this year. I've had my HP 6940 phone for a couple of years now and I've never been totally thrilled but haven't found anything that would be better for me.

My wife uses an iPhone and I've never been tempted to get my own because of the lack of good apps. However, with WebIS making PI for iP and now MS looking to get in, things could change quickly. All I'll need is a good eBook reader (can't wait to use that great screen for reading instead of the crappy low res square HP screen), an RSS Reader and a good notes app and I'll have everything I need.

So as much as I hate the Apple BS, iPhone is really looking to be the way to go.

Cheers!
David

[Pete Paxton]

I can honestly say this: I've owned an Ipaq 3650, Audiovox Maestro, Casseopeia EM500, Dell Axim X5, Dell Axim X30, Tmobile SDA, and a Tmobile Dash. Now I own an iPhone and I can say that without a doubt that my iPhone is by far the coolest most innovative electronic device I have ever owned and that includes any PC or Mac laptop I've had or currently have. I use it with Box.net to view Word and Excel docs, it's my alarm clock (and it actually works!), photos, videos, and music are the best on it, surfing the web is like being on a mini laptop, the calendar and the way it syncs with my mac are awesome, email works great, there are many iphone web apps (bible, wikipedia, dictionary, iGoogle RSS etc.) and they work great when in WiFi range. I know it's lacking features, but what it does have, it does better than any device I've had. When the Apple app store opens this June, I'll have just about everything. I love it. I have wifi at home and at work so even though I'd love 3G, I can live without it. I heard the iPhone 2 may have video calling but so does my mac and I virtually never use it. Anyway, just my 2 cents!

[lanwarrior]

You know what's great about the iPhone / iPod Touch OS? The implementation of the OS is so smooth and intuitive. 2 things I really like:

- The use of gesture is really intuitive
- Everything is so smooth, even when running Safari I hardly experienced any slowdown.

With WM OS, everything seems slow. BTW, I have owned a Windows CE devices since the first Cassiopeia, so I am and still pro WM.

However, after acquiring an iPod Touch, I was floored with the OS (see above reasons). When Apple announced the SDK, I went out and bought a Macbook just so that I can develop an app for the iPhone OS! Yeah, there are still limitation (no native multi-tasking support), but it's the 1st generation OS. Remember how Windows Mobile was still called Palm-Size PC?

[DaleReeck]

Originally Posted by Pete Paxton

I can honestly say this: I've owned an Ipaq 3650, Audiovox Maestro, Casseopeia EM500, Dell Axim X5, Dell Axim X30, Tmobile SDA, and a Tmobile Dash. Now I own an iPhone and I can say that without a doubt that my iPhone is by far the coolest most innovative electronic device I have ever owned and that includes any PC or Mac laptop I've had or currently have. I use it with Box.net to view Word and Excel docs, it's my alarm clock (and it actually works!), photos, videos, and music are the best on it, surfing the web is like being on a mini laptop, the calendar and the way it syncs with my mac are awesome, email works great, there are many iphone web apps (bible, wikipedia, dictionary, iGoogle RSS etc.) and they work great when in WiFi range. I know it's lacking features, but what it does have, it does better than any device I've had. When the Apple app store opens this June, I'll have just about everything. I love it. I have wifi at home and at work so even though I'd love 3G, I can live without it. I heard the iPhone 2 may have video calling but so does my mac and I virtually never use it. Anyway, just my 2 cents!

As I mentioned earlier, I have both a Tilt and a 16gb iPhone and I can see where you are coming from. The Tilt is far more capable (right now) but, I don't know, maybe because it's new, but there's a "cool" feeling about the iPhone. It obviously handles media (and a small part of my 500gb video collection) well and I prefer it's Audible.com experience over the PPC software. Plus, the Safari browser is light years ahead of PIE. Also, I never used to be into You Tube that much, but I even occasionally play with that now because of iPhone. The interface on iPhone seems to be better thought out than PPC as a whole and it just makes you want to "use stuff".

I think once the email push comes in June, the software list begins to grow for iPhone and larger memory versions appear, PPC could start looking at the fate of Palm more and more. Come this time next year, imagine a 64gb 3G version of iPhone with Exchange push email and a few thousand good quality software titles. Hmmmmm