It would seem that somebody who recently bought an iPhone would exclaim as if God appeared to him and granted him free passage to Heaven regardless of whatever else would happen in his life.

I originally would have felt this way if I hypothetically burned about $500 to get a hyped-up, nice-looking phone that cannot record video, cannot IM, and lacks many major features other smart-phones have. While I was, and still am, impressed with the visual appeal job Apple put into the iPhone, and into their other products, the features it lacks and the still-not-so-reasonable price relative to the features and quality, does not make the current iPhone worth it. Yes, it has multitouch; yes, it has an accelerometer; yes, it looks nicer than most other phones; yes, Steve Jobs said that it is the best thing in the world; however, I am not going to invest in it just yet. Feature-wise, it is utterly shadowed by phones such as the Nokia N95.

However, I do admit that the iPhone is revolutionary in the development of smart-phones with its multitouch technology and such. As time goes, cameras, phones, portable media players, and PC’s are converging. I will be getting a smart-phone next summer and if Apple can greatly improve the iPhone and make the price more reasonable, I might consider one.

~DC