Hey! This post is really old. You should take it with a grain of salt.
So I'm reading the Sunday Times the other day, and I happen across a small review of the iPhone. Nothing big, you know just 2 full pages. This begs the question: What exactly is so special about the iPhone that it needs 2 pages in the newspaper to tell people about it?
What does it do? Plays music and videos- oh wait, my phone does that!
Browses the web through an overpriced data connection- oh wait, my phone does that too!
All the little widgety things like stocks and weather- oh wait, my phone can get stocks and weather too!
I can even install applications on my ordinary phone!
So why all the fuss over the iPhone? I put it down to 2 things: