As someone who’s obviously never touched one, describing the iPhone as gimmiky crap is just daft. I’ve had mine for around two months after an N95 and an XDA Mini, and I can confidently say it’s the most amazing, useful electronic device I’ve ever used. It’s versatility is astonishing: the camera is far better than the poxy Nokia one, especially with the various apps to tweak the pics with, I have dozens of ebooks on it that I read regularly, the weather forcasting apps are superb, I get streaming audio from Last FM, Wolfgangs Concerts, radio stations from all over the world including all the BBC ones, then there’s the dictionaries, navigation aids like tube maps, AtoZ maps…
Plus it plays music really well, and can even make the odd phone call…
It’s very fashionable for the anti-Apple faction to slag the iPhone off, but if it had Nokia or Sony on the front the same people would be all over it. It’s amazingly useful, it has virtually replaced my laptop for most web-based use.
