The links in the following paragraphs are to blog articles on the iphone that have left me feeling allot less enthusiastic. I mean I’m a little embarrassed for being a dork about wanting the phone, but hell I’ve been living in a dilapidated shack in the woods without power and water for the past two years and I’m finally back embedded in comforts of the 21st century again. So I think I’m allowed to yearn for material possessions all I want to. Anyway I think we have desire for a reason and we should embrace and understand it rather than push it down to fester.

I’m kinda getting over the phone anyway. If you take a look at the links you’ll understand why. I wish there was a clear easy choice but I guess that’s just not how it works. I guess what I really want is a tiny laptop that will fit in my pocket, play all media, be a remote to all devices out of arms reach, and give me tools to tinker with the system and modify it to my current wants. And that’s just not going to happen. So I guess I’ll just have to buy more and more devices for all kinds of applications, send them off all the time to be repaired or replaced, all just to keep from ever having to be bothered by reality and ensure that I’m constantly accompanied by a soundtrack and a digitized version of myself to voyeurize from the window of my unfulfilled longing for love and acceptance. Oh well.

The iphone has a touchscreen interface, but it’s not the first touchscreen phone to be announced.

It’s not a smartphone because it has “crippleware” and so isn’t open to third party applications, or is it? I mean if it runs osx then it’s based on FreeBSD right, so it can be figured out and authored for, unlike ipod right? Well… it’s not necessarly running OSX. But then again maybe it is.
It’s not 3g so no flaming highspeed like they have implemented in Japan, (only available in rdu and chlt/mclnbg in NC. Not very revolutionary. On the other hand;

“EDGE can carry data speeds up to 236.8 kbit/s for 4 timeslots (theoretical maximum is 473.6 kbit/s for 8 timeslots) in packet mode and will therefore meet the International Telecommunications Union’s requirement for a 3G network, and has been accepted by the ITU as part of the IMT-2000 family of 3G standards. It also enhances the circuit data mode called HSCSD, increasing the data rate of this service.”

Oh yeah and then there’ Apple.com’s disappointing habbit of acting like it’s for open source, developing, Bono, worls Aids, etc. Meanwhile no recycling. Dumping trash on rural Chinese as if they don’t have enough problems.

Ugh, what a letdown. I guess I’ll switch back to drooling over Subarus for a while.