Knowing how much you like to take pictures with your camera, you made a good choice in going with the 5 megapixel K850i. The 2 megapixel camera on the iPhone really is pretty terrible (I was going to say ‘not brilliant’, but that just doesn’t cut it) and most of the pictures I post on my blog came from the camera on my Sony Ericsson K750i, which really wasn’t a bad camera at all (for blog photos at least) especially with it’s three-picture panorama function (take three pictures side by side to make up a panorama).

You can see that Apple have put a fantastic amount of work into the iPhone, but there are some simple things missing that could improve it a lot.

I have to admit, even I want an iPhone, even though in all honesty I really don’t NEED one. Having said that, the way Apple products work together make them indispensable. But the short-comings you mentioned were the very reason I stayed away from getting the iPhone and opted for the newer Sony Ericsson model, instead. Having said that, even I have gripes about my new phone: it’s camera might be brilliant, but the dialing buttons are so very uncomfortable - I honestly wonder if the designer thought that people who would buy the K850i would just use the phone as a camera and never dial numbers at all…

But a design flaw is nothing in comparison to - as you said so yourself - old technology being used in such a ‘revolutionary’ product.

As I read your post, I came to realise that with the iPhone, Apple were trying something new, so I have hope that by the end of next year, when I’ll be able to get an iPhone, we’ll be looking at something that matches better the expectations we’ve come to have of mobile phones.