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The thing this iPhone is lacking is significant memory. This thing needs 80 plus gig. Until you can store decent amount for things like video, it is not worth it. Probably third generation, the iPhone will rock.

This reminds me of the old joke about new hard drives...

Geek One: "Hey, I just got a new hard drive for my computer!"
Geek Two: "Great? How big is it?
Geek One: "Not big enough."

I just discovered that this thing too has no user-replaceable battery. So, if you want to use the phone beyond its battery life, without having to charge it in between long uses, you can’t. On a laptop, you’d just carry an extra battery and plug that in. Same goes for even another phone with a music player in it.

So, if you’re on a long-haul flight and you’d like to use the iPhone as an iPod, you won’t be able to use it for too long without having to charge it.

I have no idea why they have this asinine concept of a non-user-replaceable battery, on a high-drain device like a cellphone, nonetheless. For this expensive phone, when the battery runs out, you send it to Apple along with a payment of $75, lose the use of the phone for a minimum 3 days, and hope that the phone is not returned with pry-marks on the covers. A simple battery door would have fixed it, without compromising much on design.

Besides, after about an average 1.5 to 2 years of use, when most Li-ion batteries will require a replacement, Apple charges $75 for the new battery, by which time the phone would have depreciated in value by drastic amounts(ever tried selling an old cellphone? No one buys them). On a Nokia, you can have a similar capacity battery for about 15 bucks.

http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/showdoc.aspx?i=3026&p=1

Oh gawwwwd..., you must be a cutting edge geek or something! LOL...

I mean for the normal and average consumers, they’ll be saying it has a huge amount of storage space. For the geeks (as someone else said), it’s “never enough”.

One thing you’ve got to realize here is that with the iPods, the ones that have the flash memory have smaller storage. The iPods that have the larger storage are hard drives.

So, with the iPhone, it’s going with flash memory and thus it’s not going to have 80 Gigs of storage space, until the flash memory comes up to that size (and with prices that are affordable). They weren’t going to put in a hard drive in the iPhone, so that left the iPhone with about 8 Gigs for a maximum.

And as flash memory progresses and gets larger and is priced cheaper, you’ll see the larger sizes for storage in the iPhone — but — that’s not now. You’ll just have to wait.

But, for the several million people who wanted the iPhone — now — they got what they wanted and with something that is very usable (with regards to storage space) and they’re very happy. And that includes me... :-)

Regards,
Star Traveler

You’re not going to get an iPhone with a hard drive in it, like you have with the iPod. So, don’t hold your breath.

But, even so, as soon as flash memory gets larger and as soon as prices are reasonable for those greatly expanded memory capacities for that flash memory, then you’ll see those amounts of storage included in the iPhone.