Yeah, this is the second coming, so they think...
how can people be so blind? This is what you need to to get an iPhone:
"To purchase and activate iPhone 3G, you need the following:*
* Credit card
* Social security number
* Valid government-issued photo ID
* Current wireless account number and password or PIN (if you’re new to AT&T)"

As if you are buying a Ferrari. What the F***
Does Apple want your life too?

Yeah, it may be the second coming for some obtuse people; but I will never buy a phone that you have to connect it to only one carrier, and a phone that has a non detachable battery, as if you have to carry a plug with you all the time; maybe Apple expect you to connect it to your AS*.

Why would anyone be stupid enough to accomodate anyone who p1sses on them all the time?

Nick, do you know the difference between critique and whining?

You are surely the biggest w4nker on the INQ-team, and that's no small feat.... :)

It's all Cuppatino for the pastel palete available at the Iphone Home store:
Oncest thy enablest thy Bucktooth enjoy:
-phone-phone transfers 
-Multimedia messaging 
-Copy and paste 
-Video recording 
-Voice command 
-Voice dialing 
-Supports DTMF
-Send AND Receive Text Messages
-Capable of making calls too
-GPS
-MMS
-UPS
-OSX Linux Vista and Windows XP virtual machines
-Talk on the phone while listening to your music at the same time
-Dialing PC
-PC2Me
-FindAnAmbulanceChaser
-Supports DirectX 11 and ray-tracing.
-Wii device
-HD video projector 
-Backup the entire internet in slowly changing dimensional cubes that you can drill through by row or column or diagonally
-Megaphone loudspeaker for Beatitudes
-10.2 Surround Dolby THX Ultie 2
-Use it as a torch
-Check What IS magnifying glass
-Mobile Snooker Guide
-Bosh It All
-Monitor Your Blood, Sugar
-One Frenchy Porm De Jour
-Ifule
-Pack The Fudges MMORPGs
-Touchy Bible
-Aroma Therapy
-MP3 ringtones & MPg4's
-Rips DVDs
-Active Exchanges
-Universal Remote
-Retractable Universal Power Cord
-World Wide Roaming 
-Multi Flashy Drive
-Automatic network switching
-File formats and conversions including compression and depression
-Standby and talk time visibility virtually unlimited
-Multi tool cuts thru landlines
-Vices for getting a grip
-Thermometer, Altimeter, Speedometer, Weather Station
-Stands on its head
-Snakebite kit, (handy for apples)
-Rapture Notification
-Barcoding and Postage (Lick My Phone)
-Mint your own money

Ok. Now where's my free 3G Iphone?

The iPhone has "shortcomings"?? MY WORD!!! How can that be? It is after all made by Apple. They wouldn't short change us (The public), would they? LOL!!! I read somewhere that the hardware is exactly the same and that the 3G bit is simply a software update. anyone with an 1.0 iPhone is an idiot to go out and by the same phone with a mere software update. Save the money, download the update, logon to the app store and get your apps and be done with it. Until they put in a replaceable battery and an SD card slot, I don't need one.

Not sure I agree. Each author devoted ample space to the significant drawbacks, even Mossberg.

Nick, are you miffed that Apple did not send you the Jesus Phone?

As for me, I just hope enough idiots go out and get an iPhone so that Apple's stock price goes up. I have money riding on their stock.

cheers,

nice article, Nick :)