Iphone has advantages as well as disadvantages, which are as follows: Advantages: 1)The display looks good. 2)The menu design is simple, clear and the home screen icons look like to much eye candy. 3) Great integrated applications, including Google maps, you tube, and a world clock that packs a timer, stop watch and multiple alarms. 4) The first Apple music player with a built in speaker. Disadvantages; 1)No MMS support for sending picture mail. 2)No voice recording and cannot use the iphone with a hands free car kit. 3)No support for custom ring tones. 4)The camera is rudimentary, with no audio/video or even zoom capability. 5)No AOL instant messaging. After six months of hype, thousand of people got their hands on the iphone, the new cell phone that Apple inc is banking on to become its third core business next to its moneymaking ipod players and macintosh computers. Many people wanted to be the first of them to buy the iphone. Is this Hype justified? Do you treat iphone as the King, compared to other types?
It'll justify the hype when 3rd party applications are allowed in, and they can provide 3G (HSDPA), instead of the Edge data delivery protocol. And what's up with the headphone socket that requires an adaptor to use non Apple headphones? A landmark technology, but not perfect. Yet.
If they dont improve Data Connectivity and add important features like Bluetooth for Audio streaming, HSDPA, MMS, Better Camera functions and lot more, then I am pretty sure it will went down very quickly.. I can get a lot better phone at that price.
LOL - this is a marketing forum, and nobody can take anymore of Apple's hype machine! People - If you want to learn guerilla marketing tactics, the buck stops with Steve Jobs Only Apple could get away with telling people 2 weeks before launch that the phone had a glass screen, and STILL leave people believing they'd only just thought of it!
Iphone is from the company that changed the way we listen to portable music by releasing the Ipod so it's hype is justified.