Ok, now that I am on a real computer I can explain a little more. I AM aware that feature-wise, the iPhone has nothing really spectacular compared to other "advanced" phones such as the Blackberry.....as in internet, e-mail, phone, etc.
What I meant is that I think the iPhone is the first phone I have seen in a while that is different and has it's own style. Every other PDA type phone looks similar in some way, and I have never been a fan of the slide-out keyboards or anything like that.
The iPhone's screen rotates as you turn the phone (from vertical to horizontal view), has sensors in the ear-piece part so when the phone goes up against the ear, the screen shuts off preventing unwanted touching of the touchscreen, has only 1 actual button on the front of the phone and everything else appears on the screen, its actually not too hard to type with, has multi-touch screen allowing for more than just one finger touching(ie. you can use two fingers to zoom in and out by sliding your fingers together/apart on the screen), the texting is cool and shows it as a "conversation" with both sent and received texts showing up in order with each person, updates with microsoft outlook (im sure other phones do this as well...I don't know much about others), allows you to open up multiple pages in Safari (the internet browser) just like a computer, the internet actually appears as you would see it on a regular computer (not simplified version for cell phone which I have seen on others), when you type, it will automatically correct your type-o's without interupting your typing......there is a lot of other cool stuff as well.
After using it for a lot of hours today (driving from Rochester, NY to Michigan for
MSU AOP tomorrow), I have realized some negatives though. You cannot really customize ringtones... you have to pick from just the ones on the phone, cannot take video, cannot send/receive pix/flix messages....only text, the battery is irreplaceable (spelling?)....so, like the iPod, if and when the battery goes bad, the phone is done as well.
Its a cool phone. I am glad I got to play with one for 2 days before buying it. I don't think I will buy it, there needs to be some things changed/fixed...which is expected for any new product. I don't really think its worth the 600 as it is now though. I'd rather just have a simpler phone anyways, if I need to go on the internet, I will use my computer. I like my phone to fit in my pocket nice as well.