So where is your iPhone?

Apple's iPhone is almost here!!! This is the raving news I just read from Apple itself. In summary, the iPhone will soon reach the European market by the end of this year. To read the news bit itself you can click here.

Although, the technology behind the iPhone is already available on other mobile devices, it is the consolidation of these features and the form factor that's what's making the difference.

Now, call me vain and a smug, but the iPhone's luscious looks alone will send titillating sensations up one's spine.

It is not the cool features, dazzling graphics and convulsing PIMs options, but the connectivity and feature rich applications of the iPhone that's driving me crazy.

I guess for the most part, its the fact that this piece of hardware has sent the entire mobile phone industry into a whole new level altogether that's making me drivel with anticipation of first contact.

I can rant about the iPhone all night if I want to, but I'll try to bring justice to the masses about the fact that the iPhone in itself is what I'd like to call as the "commercialized-prototype" device. You see, the technology of this caliber shouldn't relent to evil capitalist preying on susceptible naive consumers. It needs to be nurtured and cared for to fully develop its potential.

Give the marketing people a hand on the R&D process and you know they'll mess it up real bad just to make a quick cash. From what I've read, this premature launch has already smeared the iPhone's good name to kingdom come!

I'm listing some of them here for your reference:

• Although the touchscreen offers impressive graphics, the same screen is a handicap when one is using its on-screen QWERTY keyboard. The text input is frustrating because its susceptible to multi-presses and will almost always register inputting errors
• The predictive text system is as good as shit. Most of the time it offered no help at all.
• The mobile OS consumes a chunky 700MB out of the box, leaving the 8GB internal flash on a diet.
• It only offers limited compatibility with MS Exchange services and is also offers shameful support with other POP3 client applications.
• That supposedly cool MP3 collection of yours cannot be used as a ring tone!
• The document manager doesn't support PDF Formats, only native WORD and EXCEL files
• this also means that the browser does not support Adobe Flash plug-ins
• You need to subscribe to periodic updates over the web, no real surprise there folks!
• Doesn't support MMS and voice dialling features
• You cannot Copy-Paste entries, a drag for those quick liner fixes
• Currently doesn't have expansion options for external storage
• Doesn't have video recording out of the box, the shit is an upgrade option!

All in all, the iPhone pretty much tips the scale to the useless-piece-of-crap category. I guess I'm just all for the glory that the iPhone represents. Because ground breaking technologies like this can never be put down. It deserves our respects and admiration - although the same cannot be said to Apple's marketing and sales division.

So, I believe the question is.... Where is your iPhone?

Well, one is on it's way here, with my name on it, thank you very much...