iPhone? Not for me
William Grosso @ July 5, 2007
Now that the storm around the iPhone has subsided, it’s time to admit the obvious: it doesn’t matter.
What it is, in the end, is a gorgeous phone with a few too many limitations. It runs Mac OSX, but that’s been crippled (you can’t install software). It makes calls, but they’re only over AT&T. It’s probably as reliable as an iPod, and it’s just about the most expensive thing out there.
More interesting things, that are actually “game changers” (as opposed to “profit centers”):
- TMobile selling phones that use wi-fi to place calls when a hotspot is nearby.
- OpenMoko is about to ship.
I won’t be buying another phone for at least a month, but … even in the wake of the iPhone, it’s high odds that my next cell phone will be a blackberry running on T-Mobile (and I’m not a T-Mobile customer now. The wi-fi, should they support blackberry, and the “free calls to 5 numbers” make this an easy decision).
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