which is a knapsack conataining a primitive cell, and a bulky 10-pound battery.

I last used it in 1994, when I was living in the jungle on Molokai.

And yeah it’s neat.

It has a lot of neat little things about it that make it really fun. All kinds of cool gimmicky apps that let you amuse yourself for hours on end.

It’s probably neater than the alternatives out there.

Once you get beyond the neatness however, I have yet to identify a single function that the iPhone has that really makes it “better” than the alternatives – ie more useful. G3/wifi internet, GPS, music, Etc – there are plenty of other phones out there that do these things as well or better than the iPhone.

I also dislike the touchscreen keyboard.

If I had ATT, I would consider an iPhone as it seems like it does the things I need a phone to do pretty well. However, the “neatness” of the iPhone is certainly not sufficient to get me to switch from Verizon. I already have a phone w/ Verizon that does those things, too.

I am passionately in love with my iPhone; we make sweet love every night, and my wife is very jealous.

Ahem.

It actually is a fabulous gadget—the e-mail and keyboard work well enough to be very useful for work, while the internet and ipod make it lots of fun, too. Actually, I suppose it’s like a mullet in that respect—business in front, party in the back. Or something.

The Bold is already out. I assume you are talking about the Storm that will probably be coming out sometime in November but exclusively for Verizon for a while. The Storm will be a touch screen exactly the same size as the iPhone with the benefit of basically not being an Apple product. Its main feature is its clickable sceen that actually makes a physical click when you touch it. That way there is “touching” and “clicking” two ways of manipulating the UI. My Verizon contract is up in 10 days and I’m going to get it. Don’t just take my word for it though:

http://gizmodo.com/5060378/blackberry-storm-first-hands-on

iPhone, my life changed. This thing is freaking incredible. So much power at your fingertips with so much ease. I have big fingers and have trouble typing on the blackberry style phones with those dinky keyboards. The pop-up keyboard for the iPhone makes it so easy to write text, email etc. Not to mention the screen is much bigger.

With the tidal wave of apps that are out, the iPhone is light-years ahead of any other phone. I have downloaded about 30 apps — all for FREE. And I use most of them daily. Plus there are some sweet apps for about $1. There are tons of awesome programmers working on the next wave of sweet apps.

I used to dog apple products my whole life. I thought apples were for people that didn’t know how to use computers. And over time I watched as apple came out with quality product after quality product. I bought an iPod shuffle to work out. But once I got the iPhone it changed my whole view on apple.

The thing I was most concerned about when I got the phone was AT&T’s service. I previously had att years ago and I loved the day that I switched over to verizon. But i’ve had this iPhone for 3 months now and I have had virtually zero problems. So don’t let the haters scare you. Get the iPhone.

So did they fix the 3G issues? I know that especially the new version of the iPhone was having trouble if you left an area where you had 3G it would drop to the slower EDGE network. Then once you had 3G available again it wouldn’t pick it up automatically. Basically you had to keep manually configuring the connection. I don’t remember seeing anything that Apple fixed it since most people didn’t even notice they were paying for a 3G network phone and getting 1/3 the connection speed. That and the exploding batteries….. turned me off.