Apple announced its new breakthrough in technology by redefining what we all do at its simplest form. Taking a phone call. Using a phone. It took something that most people good for granted as the de-facto standard in taking calls and redesigned it from the ground up. Usability and design was placed right up there along with technology. At least in my opinion.
Given that no product is perfect, and this does have its share of faults. No 3G for example. That does not change the fact that what it does have is pretty dam good. It’s sleek, sexy looking, and I think it bring with it the social status that we saw the iPod create. After all isn’t that what good products and even more good marketing/advertising campaigns do? It created a wanting that will drive people to go get it.
At an introductory price of US$ 399 and US$ 499 for the 4gig and 8 gig versions respectively it is an extravagant amount of money to spend on a phone that is NOT a smart phone. As I mentioned earlier it is not 3G, does not have exchange synchronization, or office support for that matter. No over the air iTunes Store downloads or WiFi syncing to your host machine. Forget it if you think you can get the cheaper 4gig phone and put in an expandable memory slot to increase it. The iPhone does not have an option for expandable memory, or can you change the battery on it.
That does not change the fact that I would love to have one.
