iPhone will be out in a few days at 6pm locally. I am not impressed with it nor with what I am reading in reviews. I love my iPod, so don’t get me wrong but Apple is an expert in not telling the full story on their products. Examples:

Joel writes (and I agree): “Apple is and always has been severely dishonest in all their advertising when it comes to performance. This is the company that spent years telling us that the PowerPC was faster than Intel, only, suddenly, to change their claims midsentence without an explanation when reality caught up with them, in a scene almost exactly like the scene in 1984: “Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.”

This is the company that’s about to release the iPhone on a slow, last-generation data network but is running TV ads that have edited out all downloads and waiting time that network entails.”

Further, iPhone will require an iTunes account before you can use it (I understand it for the iPod part of the phone but for the entire phone I don’t understand) but you will only find this piece of info left out and only found in the fine print of things. And while we are at it, here is another piece of info that might be interesting that I read about Apple’s control tactics.

Anyways, with increasing demand on my current phone (which I love) and the fact that 2.5 years have passed and it is starting to show clear signs of usage (including dents after many drops and some buttons not working), it finally died on me a couple of days ago, so i was forced to quickly get a new phone. The result became the HTC Hermes/AT&T 8525 (yep AT&T bought Cingular back) and I absolutely *love* it. It is a little on the bulky side but the advantages by far outweigh the the bulkiness. I also found a list of good apps to put on it, (and I also got the phone free which was a bonus). This purchase was not really planned and I had my eye on another phone that is coming later this year as well as a couple of other unannounced phones that I am excited about, but I am very happy with my new phone and would highly recommend it to anyone who wants something in between a laptop and a phone.