The iPhone absolutely has some truly wonderful capabilities. It just doesn't excel at what I carry a mobile phone/PDA for. My priorities, in order are:
- Excellent phone
- Push email
- Flexible apps with the ability to make it do other useful things
- Web browser
- Multimedia ("iPod") device
The iPhone's rank ordered list of best to worst features are:
- Multimedia ("iPod") device
- Web browser
- Flexible apps with the ability to make it do other useful things
- Push email
- Excellent phone
That, in a nutshell, is why I continue to carry the BlackBerry, and will for the foreseeable future. Pretty simple! If you want a world class phone and push email device with passable web browsing and multimedia, get a BlackBerry. If you want a world class multimedia and web browsing device with a passable phone and email, get an iPhone.