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Here's an article by Jim Lynch on www.extremetech.com

10 Reason Why I Won't Buy The 3G iPhone BY Mr. Jim Lynch

Now, read it and come back here and read my counter-reasons to Mr. Lynch's reasoning.

10) Price : are you frigging kidding me ? 199 USD is too much for you and you were looking for a 99 USD price ? Dude, might as well wish for everything to be FREE !!! Do you have any idea of the cost of the Blackberry 8820 with AT&T 2-year contract ? 299.99 USD. The AT&T Tilt ? 299.99 with same 2-year contract. And I have seen more Blackberries around than anything else. And you still asking for an iPhone for 99USD ? Yeah, ok. We still get to the same point : can't afford it? Stop bitching about it.

9) iPhone says it all. Why do you people keep complaining about games and games and frigging games to be available for the iPhone ? Buy yourself a Sony PSP or a Nintendo DS or whatever else IS MADE to play games. This is a FRIGGING PHONE !!! Can't you get it ?

8) The App Store : if you consider that the majority of the applications that will be available at the App Store will make a good use of data communications, why would you stick with the old EDGE iPhone and not go with the faster 3G ? Mail is received/sent faster, web pages are loaded faster and every single application that will use the 3G connection will SIMPLY connect faster, PERIOD !

7) Storage : 16GB is not enough ? What do you want, a 500GB hard drive in a phone ? For what?

Listen to music ? Buy yourself an iPod.
Watching movies ? Buy yourself a PMP (I'd suggest you an Archos 705)

Applications ? Majority of applications won't be bigger than a megabyte which will allows (theoretically) your iPhone to have almost 2000 applications. Ahem, do you seriously think you're gonna buy that many applications...? I SO DON'T THINK SO !

6) No camera upgrade. Now, all over again, WHO CARES ABOUT THE CAMERA IN A PHONE !!! buy yourself what they call a REAL DIGITAL CAMERA !!! Nowadays, you can buy a more than decent DSLR for way less that 1,000 USD. Now, that's what a digital camera is made for, not the iPhone !!!

5) No video chat. What's the big deal with this one ? Are you really dying to see someone's else face when you're talking to him/her while on a MOBILE phone? Again, it's a phone built to be a phone, not a toy to have fun with and make sure you look nice if someone is looking at you on a video call...If that's the case, get on an online chat system and there you go, you can show your pretty face to anyone you want.

4) Thinner 3G iPhone : so, what's wrong in being the 3G iPhone thinner than the original iPhone ? Nothing but may the better handling of it. Still, not really a reason for bitching about it. NO REASON WHATSOEVER.

3) Microsoft Exchange : purely made for businesses, not for everyday consumers. You are not going to use it, others will. You don't like it ? Fair enough. Remember that it was put there SIMPLY to accomodate ENTERPRISES DEMAND, not consumer's demand. So, basically, you're out of the picture, Mr.

2) GPS : OMG, I am so sorry. The GPS on the iPhone doesn't speak. Holy Cow, I am lost without a voice guidance. ARE YOU KIDDING ME ? What do you need, a voice manual to get you through the Playstation 3 setup or the Xbox 360 setup or anything else's setup ? Com'on, don't be ridiculous. With or without voice, it's still A-GPS which means it can tell you almost exactely where your sorry ass is and where you want to take it !!!

Oh, BTW, it appears that TomTom has already developed an iPhone version of their GPS software and, guess what, THAT ONE TALKS !!! Yeah !!!

1) 3G. 10 USD more a month for 3G connection is a rip-off ? Mr. where do you live ? It's 3 times more expensive in Canada, roughly twice as expensive in Italy and you're bitching about a mere 10 USD raise for a much better and faster connection ? WoW. NO COMMENT, Mr.

Bonus Reason : White. OMG, now we get to bitch about a phone color. YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY BE FOR REAL, Mr. It's called CONSUMER CHOICE.

If you don't like it white, stick to the Black. Nobody really cares. It's each consumer choice and, honestly, you can't use that AGAINST Apple.

Everyone's his/her own opinion. Let's try to be fair and not pure jackasses with unreal questioning and bitching.

It always come to the same point, over and over again.

You can't afford it ? Sucks to be you. You don't like it ? Your choice.

Many will be able to afford it (even more now that it will be sold at JUST 299 USD for the 16G and majority will love it (and the sales of the original iPhone just prove I am right).

So, in this case, stick with a 99$ USD crappy and ugly phone with a 1.8" screen and slow like molasses. Majority of us will DEFINITELY ENJOY the beautiful 3.5" screen of the iPhone and it's awesome OS which almost never fails to deliver (contrary to a well know to SUCK Windows Mobile !!!).

Thanks for sharing with us more crap and showing how people like you shouldn't even dream of having a phone like the iPhone. You simply don't deserve it. PERIOD !!!

Live Long And Prosper (possibly without all this BS.)