iPhone - Panic Starts Now

Are you a mobile phone user? Sure, this is an awakard question to ask but Apple CEO Steve Jobs loves to fool non-Apple users (i.e. who don't like to eat Apple too much) by asking this. He is too proud to show his iPhone to regular Cell Phoners and says "See, now that's a Phone!". But in reality, do the much hyped iPhone justifies it's glamourous posture in terms of usability and performance?

Now at first it is a operator locked item, so you can send thousand SMSs, call million friends, read gazillion news feeds but all through one operator. In USA, AT&T does the big job to hold the market of iPhone in being the operator (formerly cingular). And the fact is an US woman named Justine Ezarik recieved her iPhone bill which was 300 page long described the every bit of transaction of DATAs only for sending SMSs for the AT&T's policy of informing everything to everybody.

The usability factor is more than good enough. Running a stripped down Mac OS X under the hood, iPhone's UI is pleasant like it's Big Brother. The oomph factor around the Multi-touch capable touchscreen is for a good cause, it really gets the job done. Many discussions were discussed in this regard and I don't want to repeat them. But the cons are lack of scratchproof quality of the screen, though some will argue on this factor but I will say the screen is not good enough for regular wear and tear like other general phones. Obviously, it will look good in the showcase, but it is not dust-proof and is a fingerprint magnet.

Although not sporting a touchscreen, iPhone's big rival is Nokia N95. This model from the Finnish company has many market leading features too like Wi-FI and other stuffs. What makes it stand little upper than iPhone is it's 5 Megapixel camera when iPhone has a 2 MP cam, what a shame! A revolutionary phone with just 2 MP, though Steve will say that it is not a camera phone blah blah ..
The iPhone also do not support installing of extra 3rd party applications, also the phone is not available in Asia right now which is the largest cell phone market. These typical Apple decisions serves which causes, I don't know, please let me know if anybody does.

The fact is todays mobile phones are not just a phone, they are portable computers needed to fit a palm with as many features as you can pack into it. So when iPhone lacks many of them, it will not be a revolutionary thing to boast of.