I still stand firmly by my Buyer’s Guide. The iPhone isn’t just a phone, or a glorified iPod, or a web browser, or a collection of PIM software — it’s all those things. If you want only one of those component, and therein only one of the parts of the service you’re paying for, then I think you should pass on the iPhone. I also think you should pass on the iPhone 2.0, or 3.0, or iPhone Pro, or iPhone Mini, or whatever comes next, because it is simply not Apple’s style to pimp out one component at the expense of the big picture. In other words, no, I don’t think you’ll ever see an iPhone that has data transfer rates as good as or better than other phones on the market. That’s only part of the whole widget.
“Why You Don’t Want an iPhone — Yet”
