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i have used many different devices (and have to support them) for work. blackberry, treo, iphone, you name it. blackberry devices used to own the market for business due to their ease of use for email access. now that the iphone can integrate with push email and Exchange, it is a much better choice for business use...depending on a few things.

1. battery life is TERRIBLE compared to a blackberry device. 2. AT&T coverage. i have had no problems and also travel internationally..bacon works the same in any country i go to compared to being at home on my couch. those that complain about coverage...where are you living? they cover EVER major city and region in the world. ???
3. cost. for business, a monthly minute plan + data is nearly the same as the iphone. with the iphone you don't have to pay a BES server license for each user (or run a separate server)....so iphone wins on the costs. for personal use, that's up to you.

can't really go wrong with the BB or iphone these days.

this thing still isn't FREE after the 2 year contract?

Just want to share iPhone experience:
- Use it to browse the Web sites that support RSS using the Google Reader, which strip out the images and advertisements, and render the content to my iPhone quickly through the slow EDGE network.
- Check the real-time quote of some stocks, and do some trading using the Safari Web browser.
- Do online banking to pay some bills or transfer funds between accounts.
- I'm satisfied with the iPhone email, because I don't type that much, but I downloaded an app from the App store that allow me to type in landscape mode (bigger virtual keyboard). Also, I use the Safari Web browser to check/reply my company's Web email.
- I need to make more than 1000 minutes calls to many countries every month. I can easily make almost free ($1.99 for 1000 minutes/month) phone-to-phone international calls to many countries even through the slow EDGE network. This is how it works. I put in my own # and the # that I need to call, the Voip service provider first calls my phone, then calls the other #, and then connect both lines together and we can start talking. Save me lots of money every month.
- Again, make some almost free international calls using the downloaded App Store iPhone application through the WIFI network.
- I can connect to my MSN and Yahoo messenger with my iPhone anytime and anywhere
- Google Map with Street View, directions, etc. I always need to go online on the road to get the address and put in to my Garmin Nuvi GPS, because my Garmin doesn't always find the store or place that I want to go from its database.
- MP3 is a big bonus, nice interface to scroll thru thousand songs, good sound quality.
- I downloaded many useful free games and apps from App Store (place <a rel="nofollow" href="/merchants/ebay-coupons-9/jump/" target="_new">eBay bids, check price and reviews of a product on <a rel="nofollow" href="/merchants/amazon-coupons-3/jump/" target=... [Truncated]

can you sync your i-device to more than one computer?

awww man.. i was hoping this was without contract extension...

I don't think the Iphone will last 2 years .... in the other hand is nice to see aaple fanboys paying $600 in a phone and then 3 months later drop it to $400 the drop the refurbished to $200

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJH3xZ5ZDwE&eurl=http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=iphone%20drop&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv

http://www.pcworld.com/video/id,545-page,1-bid,0/video.html

The GPS, isn't realy GPS, it can't track precise locations as standalone GPS's can, I had a HP iPaq with a built in GPS and b/c it's a windows mobile device, I was able to install the Belkin GPS software and it worked like a true GPS, this just has GPS and the google turn for turn directions doesn't work with the GPS chip, which totally sucks.

Copy/Paste is a huge feature which I think should have been integrated, I'm trying to send a friend of mine a phone number in a text message, the biggest pain in the ASS! going from address book to text app sucks!

They make it the way they want and take out anything that would cause it to be unstable (which it does crash often), if Microsoft were to omit all the kewl features and not integrate them like apple, Widows mobile would be just as stable! I talk from experience, I have owned and used both for years and I can honestly say I like WM when it's stable, when you JailBreak your iPhone, it's just like WM in regards to stability.

Don't waste your money, buy a Windows device.

I have an iPhone and here's what I don't like:
- no copy/paste
- not all txt msgs have a timestamp
- crippled bluetooth

Most of the things I do like about the iPhone require it to be jailbroken:
- $5.99 edge data plan from tmobile (tzone hack)
- google calendar sync
- cycorder
- mxtube