The new iPhone

On the other hand with such small optics bigger megapixel size doesn't help much. For reference the images are good enough and for real photography you would take your real camera anyway.

Very often I don't have my digi cam with me and make photos with my mobile. No video conference option and 2 mega pixels are poor. 3.2 or 5 and a good lense would make a difference for shure. At least to me. All photos shown on the keynotes iPhones where definitely not taken with an iPhone.

AT&T has UPPED THE PRICE TO $70 PER MONTH!

That's right, the cheapest data plan for 3G is now $30 per month, voice $39. Add in the extra taxes and bullshit fees, and you're probably looking at close to $85 to $90 per month.

I was all ready to get the iphone until they said $60 a month. We'll see what happens with the new release. I too have a cell contract from years ago where I pay as cheap as $29 per month.

but from what I've been reading, AT&T was the only company that would put up with the kind of control Apple wanted to have over the phone and its service.

They need to let up a little and open the phone to other carriers. I have friends who dumped AT&T because of the awful reception/service. All the bells and whistles are useless if I can't get a signal!

*shrug*

2MP seems fine for me for what it is, a simple P&S built into your phone so you don't need to carry the basic one around. megapixels are one of the more overrated specs out there, anyway. people who don't do anything more than post photos online brag about 10mp cameras, which is ridiculous. my P&S is 5MP, but i don't turn it up over 3MP most of the time since it's almost always for snapshots (DSLR for real pictures).

maybe a flash wouldn't be horrible to add, but how much bigger would it be (honestly, i don't know how much room it would take up)?

i think a lot of people *prefer* the touchscreen, and even more importantly, the interface. while you poo-poo it, that's a major selling point for many. it's not all about raw features, it's about whether you like the way it works and whether it works best for you. obviously, it's not for everyone, but that doesn't make it bad, per se.

i'm not an apple fanboi. i like some of the things they've done and not so much on others. i think the iphone is close, beyond the ATT contract price. i like the interface (i own a touch). i just can't justify the monthly cost on it.

I really dislike it.
It's a brick, it's massive, it's unreliable and EVERY friend of mine who owns one has said they'll be dumping the N95 on July 11th.

1) I've not sent an MMS in about 2 years.
I just don't need them and more often than not the people I'm sending them to don't have MMS set up on their phone so it's a waste of money as they don't receive it.
Everyone I know has email.

2) The memory card on my phone goes mostly unused. I got a 2GB microSD card as soon as I got my Nokia e65 and within a few months had swapped it out for a 512Mb one and put the 2GB one in my camera.
I never sync data from other machines to my phone apart from by Bluetooth and ALL of what I do in terms of sync will be replaced by MobileMe.

3) I've never ever changed or replaced a battery in a mobile phone in 10 years of owning one. By the time the battery is dying I'll have a new phone. I doubt I'll ever have to replace an iPhone battery either to be honest, O2 are offering free upgrades to the iPhone 3G for all current iPhone customers and I'd expect the same to happen for the next version.
One good thing about the UK telcomms market.