i have to say i disagree as well... strongly on a number of points..
1. the "rules of engagement", too broad of a descriptor at any rate, are fine by me as i see them.. not caused me one bit of trouble... i don't have the time to fully explore all of the cool "allowed" possibilities of the iPhone, much less to dick around with the ever expanding "jail-broken" side.
2. i absolutely LOVE the keyboard... so easy on the fingers, no physical keys to stick or wear out... a problem i've head with 2 previous phones... and i can type fast as hell on it very accurately. there is a trick to it, most people figure it out fast enough... you can't try to type with the tips of your fingers/thumbs as you would on a hardware keyboard, you have to use the pads. think about it... makes total sense, and it works: when you type with the tips, the pads are touching the nearby keys... on a hardware keyboard this is fine because all the pressure is in the tips and that's what gets pressed. on a touch-screen keyboard the pads still end up touching other "keys" nearby... since no pressure is required they get "pressed".... so you just hit the keys with your pads. it's very easy to get used to and it's waaay less stress on your fingers over time. i LOVE that keyboard now.
3. don't care about voice dialing... never used it on my phones that had it, and i hate having to repeat myself to them sometimes to make sure i'm speaking clearly enough, and really hate when it dials the wrong number because 2 of my contacts have similar sounding names.
4. heh... i think the phone is incredibly ergonomic.. i love the design.. it's a beautiful phone that feels fantastic in my hands... what do you want it to be shaped like, a banana?? what exactly are you
DOING with your phones Shane?
5. you must wear thicker clothes/have thicker skin than me... i leave mine on vibrate a lot and always catch my calls... it's a nice vibrate level for me... not so strong that everyone in a quiet room will hear it buzzing, but totally enough to feel it just fine.
6. speaker phone works fine for me, no problem hearing it.
7. i get around the maps app fine, and use it to navigate every new place i go... but i do agree with you on this one.... they need to add true GPS to this and i believe they will.
*8*. APPS APPS APPS!!!! i have so many killer music apps on my iphone it's retarded. the Guitar Toolkit app alone makes the iPhone a no-brainer for me. i used it to teach the SWWAATS guitarist (band whose nuclear blast debut i recently produced & mixed) what notes he could play in his solos, and i practice with it all the time.
hands down the best phone ever created, with the best support system and third party developer base EVER... and it only took you a year to start crying about it,
