No. Don't take me wrong, i'm still drooling after watching the keynote but...
- it is too expensive
- it is too fragile
- it works with Cingular
I agree with all of that except the drooling part.
I think it looks silly and doesn't seem as practical as one might think. Call me a purist, but if its called a phone then it should be a phone.....period. I already have an iPod and I have a cell phone. They both work flawlessly so I would have no need to replace them with one, singular device.
Things like that only satiate those technophiles who feel the need to have all of their eggs in one basket.
"Super" devices like that aren't very logical because they cost a heck of a lot more and are more prone for something going wrong with it.
Also, limiting it to one carrier in the USA on a GSM network is a little daft IMO. Verizon (whom I really don't care for personally) has the largest network in the USA, not Cingular. It would have been a much more practical and lucrative move to partner it with Verizon. Cingular has the largest network in North America. When you cut out Canada and Mexico from that, you are left with a rather mediocre sized network in the USA (the largest market base for this product). I understand that making the phone work on the GSM network opens up the possibility for more global use, but even now 3G is still in it's infancy and still isn't widespread.
Overall, this is a lackluster release from Apple... but at least those diehard rumor hounds, who have been waiting faithfully since 1999, finally got their iPhone. :black: