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my brother-in-law gave my sister's an iPhone during her lab exams using an elisa kit for the chemotherapy..it really nice..dont have any idea with what you said..a crackberry?whats the difference between the two?but I think theyre both great handsets...
Having a Crackberry, I feel no need to own an iPhone, so it wasn't even a consideration for me. But I know at least one of you people has to have gotten one!
If you got one, what do you think about it? Besides "it's pretty." 
Ain't gonna spend the rest of my life, quietly fading away...
February 12, 2010 11:43 AM
updated: February 12, 2010 12:33 PM
Seriously????
Well over 75 million iPhones/iPod touches have been sold so this "question" seems a few years late, but here is my take ÃÂ... It bears noting that iPhone/iPod touch and soon to be ship[ping iPad will continue to "change the mobile game" from top to bottom.
With todays announcement from IBM & Microsoft I'd say they see the writing on the wall as well.
"Apple's iPad represents a thin, 1.5-pound wrecking ball aimed at the division between netbooks and smart phones. But it may also do collateral damage to another long-crumbling barrier: the separation between work and play. And if that happens, IBM wants be ready to help tear down the wall," Greenberg reports.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/11/ipad-iphone-apple-technology-cio-network-ibm...
"Microsoft Ends War on Macintosh with Office 2011"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100212/tc_pcworld/microsoftendswaronmacinto...
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The iPhone will continue to dominate, with more market share that Symbian  that does NOT count iPod touch devices  iPhone OS is the leader in Mobile OS Market Share.
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8
The iPad will put another nail into the coffin, the old guard of mobile devices and services are dead. If you are a developer and don't want to be left behind it is time to get on board the iPhone/iPad SDK.
Apple's phone continues to roil the industry, and its sales more than quadrupled last year. Its features are a model for competitors, and it has by far the most support from application developers.
iTunes is the KEY to why Apple has and will continue to lead for years to come.
Citing the strength of iTunes and the App Store, the president of PC maker Acer said his company does not have plans to launch a touchscreen devices to compete with the Apple.
Acer Taiwan President Scott Lin said Acer could technically create such a device, but it does not fit into the company's business model, according to DigiTimes. The strength of the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad, Lin said, will lie in its connectivity to iTunes and the App Store, which now offers more than 140,000 software choices.
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Some history,
April 30, 2007, There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance," said Ballmer. "It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So7qrFO_p44
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2007/04/ballmer-says-iphone-has-no-chan...
DOH! Apple iPhone Holds 66% Mobile Browser Market Share February 2009
http://business2press.com/2009/03/02/apple-iphone-holds-66-percent-mobile-bro...
February 12, 2010 12:05 PM
updated: February 12, 2010 12:30 PM
Interesting read here: Where BusinessWeek concludes Microsoft may need an acquisition to avoid losing out in smartphone market.
"Just a few years ago, Microsoft looked like a real contender in the mobile-phone market. Its Windows Mobile operating system ran about a quarter of all smartphones as recently as 2004, and it was gaining ground on leaders like Nokia," Cliff Edwards and Olga Kharif report for BusinessWeek. "Then Apple and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion left the software giant in the dust."
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2010/tc20100211_194471.htm
Now, forgive me for not believing Microsoft when they promise anything, but especially when they vow to "move the bar forward." We've heard it often, but never I've seen it, so confidence is low.
The day Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, Microsoft et all didn't know what hit them and, from the sound of it, they still haven't figured it out.
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To answer the question: "what do you think about it?"
In short, Game Changer.
This device changed the landscape completely, from hardware design, to input methods, software development & distribution [Apps, & App Store] - Joe average can now develop Apps/Games etc. and have equal footing against folks like Adobe, MS, EA - That is Game changing in an of itself, add to that, augmented reality Apps, regular OS updates [my 1st Gen iPhone has been made anew 3x with each major OS update], better pricing on data plans, and on and on and on... in short the iPhone is to smartphone what the iPod was to the Walkman.
FFWD to 2010.... now the iPhone has proven to be VERY serious threat to tech giants like Adobe, Microsoft, Symbian, and RIM's grip on the Mobile Standards & Marketplace.
This will be VERY interesting, come this time next year, to see who is left standing.
My 2¢
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