I received an email recently from somebody who is UK based and he has managed to get his hands on an iphone…I’ll just quote what he says below as it makes extremely interesting reading.
Forget what all the niggling complainers say about the iPhone
(especially those who’ve never actually had hands on with one) – if
you get to handle it you will mysteriously find yourself offering up
your credit card without even taking your eyes of the iPhone, as you
repeatedly mutter ‘the screen, the screen…’
The experience of actually using it is astonishing. Screen looks like
litho-printed glossy magazine, can be easily read outdoors – even in
full sunlight. Build quality superb, thin, but with a satisfying weight.
OS behaves just like the magical Jobs presentation, this does not
disappoint.
I’ve used it outside too, as a phone, for mail and Google maps – not
bad for being on GPRS, useable.
But when you get onto wi-fi – yyyeeeehaaaa…
Definitely the best handheld I’ve ever seen, nothing else even close.
As Stephen Fry so accurately puts it: "Apple gets it, why don’t the
other bastards get it?"
Not all rosy in the garden of course, there are some puzzling
omissions from the iPhone features, hopefully to be resolved soon,
keyboard takes a bit of getting used to and I really wish it was 3G,
but overall still a stunning first version entry into the smartphone
world from Apple.
Hell, their competitiors are on versions 5+ with some of their
devices and look at the state of them.
And as I marvel at the integration of hardware, OS and software I
wonder again, what the blazes have the big guns of the handheld world
been doing these past two years while Apple quietly prepped an ‘every-
other-phone-killer’?
Immediately after using the iPhone al the other OS and interfaces
seems like quaint antiques. How utterly laughable are the dunderheads
who think that the iPhone OS is just a cosmetic ‘gloss’ over a device
no different from all the others, may their handhelds rest in peace.
Palm-Mac 
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