Apple iPad

[kid908]

The app store is the only advantage the Iphone have. and if you have an itouch, it makes the iphone basicly useless except for phone functionality. There's many phones that have better specs than the iphone, just lack a large enough app store to compete with apple's app store.

[Jean-Luc]

What cell phones are these inferno?

The better question is, what need does anyone have for an iPhone?

Really, when it comes down to it, how much do you need from your phone? If it's business, Blackberry beats the iPhone every time. If you need something simple, you can get one for $30 and a cheap plan. I need nothing more from my phone than caller ID, a calendar, an alarm clock and a keyboard for texting.

I have no problem with those who own the phone and can afford the cost of the data plan, but there is no "gap" that the iPhone really fills. It's trendy (which is bullshit if you ask me), the multi-touch screen is the best out there and it has the biggest app store, but I promise that for most day-to-day users, all of that is unnecessary.

[Huero]

Because other, cheaper, phones do the everything the iphone does and more? I have a ipod touch and a regular old cell phone. Why would I want to pay a shit ton extra a month to have them combined?

oh I'm not arguing against you
just stating that you yourself have a very fragile argument
I myself have one, but that's a matter of preference - I like having everything all in one, and I really like to be able to access the internet wherever I go. It's nice, and incredibly useful in all situations.
e: uh, Jean-Luc
1. BlackBerry's have pretty much always been terrible things in every way and everyone agrees on that fact (notice how businessmen have started shying away from them?)
2. it definitely fills a gap - the average user might not use all of the phone's apps to their full potential, but most teens do from what I've seen.

[klange]

Really, when it comes down to it, how much do you need from your phone? If it's business, Blackberry beats the iPhone every time. If you need something simple, you can get one for $30 and a cheap plan. I need nothing more from my phone than caller ID, a calendar, an alarm clock and a keyboard for texting.

You're dead wrong. Blackberries require extensive private networks and databases, are not very advanced pieces of hardware, have an outdated operating system, and have been despised by businessmen since their inception. The reason they were (and are) so prevalent, is because there was nothing else available with the required features in the past: now every smart phone has the same - and better - features.

[jcap]

Android OS beats all~

[Jean-Luc]

You're dead wrong. Blackberries require extensive private networks and databases, are not very advanced pieces of hardware, have an outdated operating system, and have been despised by businessmen since their inception. The reason they were (and are) so prevalent, is because there was nothing else available with the required features in the past: now every smart phone has the same - and better - features.

Fair enough, I'll concede that I'm misinformed about Blackberries.

As for Huero, I do see the popularity of the iPhone among teenagers but I'm at a loss as to what the gap it is filling actually IS.

[Geo]

Android OS beats all~

This man gets a cookie

[Heathen]

Right, because everyone can afford a $200 phone and the extra $30/month data plan. Sure

If you're trole'in, please disregard the preceding

Nah, I'm not. I pay for my own iPhone and I dont even have a job. If I can do it anyone can.

[Dwood]

Android OS beats all~

It does it does.

[Rook]

Nah, I'm not. I pay for my own iPhone and I dont even have a job. If I can do it anyone can.

I'd rather drop the extra money in a savings account for my future and get a cheap ass phone that does what a phone is intended for-texting/calling.