Yes, there are quite a few people out there that just have to have the latest gadget. Nothing wrong with that, we all do at certain times.

There is alot of hype out there, mostly coming from Apple. This product seems to be one that the consumers really need to research before buying.

If I read the reviews right you have to sign a 5 year service contract with AT&T. How many of you with cell phones keep the some one for that long? The technology chages to quick and often to be tied down like that.   

You sign a 2 year service contract with AT&T, like just about any other phone service out there.  Apple however has signed a 5 year exclusive with AT&T, so they're the only service that can sell them until 2012.

I like the newest whiz-bang gadgets like most, however, 600 bucks is a lot to shell out for a phone/ipod. I've got a phone and I've got an ipod, and i can get on the internet right here at my trusty pc...WOULD i get one, if I had disposable income...yes. WILL i get one...no.

Thanks for the correction Zoomba, just goes to show you either I read what I wanted to or the reviewer got it wrong. Not to be the square peg in the round hole, but I have a Tracfone, no contract.   

If im going to spend 600 dollars it sure as hell wont be on a phone.

Amen to that. On the other hand, these days you're not really buying a phone; you're practically buying another computer!

Yup.

If you make 5 to 6 hundred dollars a month it's time to get a second job  

As for me I usually go out and get the latest gadget (3 RZARs and a SLVR) but I think I'm going to wait on this one.

I'd buy one but unfortunately I lack the money to get it, that and I live in the UK where we don't have iPhones.

If I got one, I'd only use it as an uber-iPod. AT&T is the worst choice they could have had for a provider. But the reason the iPod is ubiquitous is because it wasn't locked into a single source vendor. Locking the iPhone to AT&T for 5 years was a terrible mistake.

It's an hysteria-fed fad, just like the iPod.

Anyone rushing out frantically to buy one probably needs a priority-reset button.

How long till the first mugged-for-iPhone reports?

iPod and its 'signature' white earphones.....didn't shout out 'STATUS SYMBOL'...it shouted instead 'MUG ME'...

I doubt I'll ever buy anything spelled with a lower case 'i'.

Maybe I'm just an iDiot ....

A friend of mine said the same thing. They don't call it a craze for nothing.  

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Unless it's unlocked, it's not an option

Besides, it's a first gen product, never buy a first gen product

Well, since I'm in Canada I don't even have the option yet... seriously, wth is that about!? We're right on top of you. There are people who live on one side of the border and work on the other. Why in the name of all that's good and pure do we always have to wait longer (latest rumor puts the iphone in winter up here) for the latest stuff??

Anyway, my rants aside, to be honest I just don't need half the stuff the iphone has and it's missing half the stuff I'd want in a device like that. So I'm gonna wait for either v2 or maybe something better that'll come along. For now I'm satisfied with what I have.

What I don't understand is why did apple make that contract with AT&T? I mean am I really suppose to believe that AT&T gave apple enough money to cover all those users that would've bought the iphone if it were available from other providers for 5 years!?! 'Cause I don't see any other reason why apple would want to limit the iphone to one, apparently not very good, network.