The iPhone is not the end all, be all to the cell phone market. It is in fact one of the most innnovative and well designed phones of this century and years down the road we’ll all look back and appreciate what it has done for this industry….we can see its effects now. Up until the iPhone we had all of the prominent vendors of handsets pushing out the same ol’ thing time and time again. Case in point – Motorola. The Razr, Krazr, Rokr, Fokr…OK…maybe the last one wasn’t an actual phone but you get the point. Out of the blue comes a phone from a company whose forte is computers and it blows the socks off the competition – HANDS DOWN! My only gripe with Apple is the exclusivity deal they pulled with the carriers – in particular, AT&T. No carrier should have the right to lock up deals on phones so that other carriers or their customers are forbidden to purchase them. But that’s a whole other issue I don’t want to get into.

The iPhone is a great phone but it still lacks some things that should have been standard at the phone’s orginal release – cut & paste, MMS, MS Exchange support.
In regards to the other handset makers…yes, they’ve been trying to play catch up and in the process of wanting to become the iPhone killer have fallen on their faces badly. In my honest opinion I really thought the Blackberry Storm would have been a better contender to the iPhone than it has. Instead it’s been plagued with a often sluggish and buggy OS. This is coming from a guy that owns one. And in case that Dave guy is around….I still have it fully functioning on T-Mobile’s network. IM,SMS,MMS,browser and even the VZ Navigator GPS program. Take that! Just wish I was able to use the 3G functionality…oh well.

I’ve been trying to give T-Mobile the benefit of the doubt in their efforts but I’m really starting to believe they have no efforts in play to be more competitive in the US market. Their UK outfit has much better phones than we have and 3G has been around the UK for years. That’s the only time I get to enjoy any 3G capable phone is when I’m out of the country.

Say what you will but the G1 is not all that people claim it is. The OS stills needs some tuning, the very low memory specs make putting lots of apps on the phone impossible – what good is a 8GB or 16GB microSD card if you can’t install apps without hacking the phone?

Rumors, Rumors, Rumors…..most of the time that’s all we hear about T-Mobile. We need to see products. Lets start from the beginning of the year up til today to see just how many ‘confirmed’ product announcements we have from T-Mobile and compare it with some of the other carriers. The numbers are probably startling. In one day AT&T announced 6….count them…6 new phones. We’re lucky if we hear one announcement from T-Mo in 6 weeks. Not to mention if it’s a good announcement or not.

I want to cause an uproar because as a long standing customer I feel they owe us that. I called customer service about a month ago when I was switching over to the Blackberry data services. When the rep asked me if there was anything she could do I told her to send a message to the guys on top that we’re tired of the crap handset options we have to chose from. She laughed and told me that’s a major complaint with a lot of customers she’s encountered. What’s wrong with them?

Guess they like being #4…behind Sprint……

@Burt

UMA is basically wifi calling.

Looks like all of the manufacturers have been brainwashed too!