http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/23/iphone_too_expensive_say_brits/
Too expensive and tied to a crap contract. Hardly a surprise they’re not selling like the proverbial hotcakes.
Nah. Not interested, and I haven’t even seen the kind of contract involved. I just don’t want one.
I have a phone, which I resent; a good laptop for work and for recording, for editing music and video, and for writing. I have a cheap MP3 player that holds much more music than an iPhone and is probably less picky about what it’ll play.
I’ll happily make do.
Same goes for the Blackberry. No need.
The blackberry has it’s time and place. I had one in my old job and it was incredibly useful for waking me up at 3am to tell me that a server had gone down 
For business users who need email on the go it’s superb, but I don’t see the point of it for personal use.
With regards to the iPhone, it my have a fancy interface but the core functionality is behind the times. The main problem is that the European phone market is 5 years or so ahead of the US so they need a different approach (no 3G was a mistake). A lot of the reviews I’ve seen have been making a big deal about how you plug it in and it synchronises with your email client and your contacts, but the last 4 or 5 phones I’ve owned have done that. Big deal. Most customersin the UK are also used to getting their phone for free every year when they renew their contract, so having to pay a pretty extortionate price for the handset and then not being able to choose your network or contract is another big mistake.
My next phone will probably be another samsung (had 2 and they’ve both been fantastic) or one of the new nokias (never had one before but they seem to be getting more attractive lately).
I’ve played with a few and the iPhone seems seems like a nice little device. The display is sharp and the web browsing in an interesting experience with the multi-touch screen.
But the lack of a development kit is a deal breaker for me. It doesn’t do everything my Treo does and I can yet write replacement applications.
However, given how fast Apple upgraded the iPod, I’ll give the iPhone a few more generations and look at it again. My Treo is starting to age and parts are falling off and I’ll be ready to replace it soon, but Palm has really dropped the ball. The PDA/smartphone market was theirs to lose, and sadly I think the market has passed them by.
I’ve considered the new HTC Tilt, I like writing code in .NET and the tilt runs Windows Mobile 6.
Hi beowulf573
If you have been loooking at HTC phones, then you might find this interesting.
http://www.xda-developers.com/
David
Cool, thanks. I’m a bit cheap so I’ll probably wait until my Treo dies an honorable death, but I do like to keep track of whats out there for when I do need to switch.
Interesting, I read a review this week of the new Treo that said it was their best phone yet.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/23/review_palm_voda_treo_500v/
I had a windows mobile smartphone (the orange SPV600) for a year and never used it for anything other than making phone calls, sending texts, taking pictures, email. All these things it did slower and harder than the dumbphone I have now (a samsung usomething). I also have a PDA that I’ve never figured out to use for anything remotely useful. I should probably start taking it to meetings or something and use it to organise my work diary, but I just stick to taking a notepad instead.
They’re (Treo/Palm) hardware is great, but their software platform is way outdated. They’ve developed and thrown away I think three new platforms without ever releasing them. Now they’re trying to write a new one based on Linux, but that has been pushed out another 18 months last I heard.
And Access is developing a competing Palm OS based on Linux too.
Hopefully something will get released someday.