Russell Shaw of ZDNet’s “IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband” blog is running an online poll.
If I could have a free Apple iPhone or BlackBerry Pearl, I’d want:
• Apple iPhone (84%)
• BlackBerry Pearl (6%)
• Reserve judgement until I can try both (6%)
• Neither. Both are toys (2%)
• Some other gizmo (2%)
Current vote total: 1,388
More info and a chance to vote here.
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Kiss any kind of statistical relevance goodbye now
I can’t wait for mine. June gives me enough time to save money!
This is an easy choice. iPhone – the Pearl doesn’t look that different from any other phone.
I am currently in Rome, Itally watching some tech shows. I am wondering why the heck the USA has the most backward technology. Of course, the iPhone is a stunning peice of technology if you have no exposure to what Europe and Japan are already doing and will also be doing.
I’m disappointed.
I am so jealous. The Italian locals here have fast cell phone web access. kewl phones. blazing fast internet access.
Going home to America suddenly seems technologically depressing
@David–paradoxically, the reason the US is so behind with cell technology compared to Europe and Asia is because the US was so much more advanced in POT (plain old telephone) systems. The need for a new telephony system was much more critical outside the US because their landline networks were total crap. Thus, cell technology adoption was fast and broad in places like Italy, while, at the same time, people in the US were still saying “who needs it” or “well, I’ll buy one for emergencies.”
The cell phone has virtually replaced hard wired networks outside the US, but our infrastructure is so broad and developed, and it still works more conveniently for most people that there is just not the same motivation here to walk away from it and fully embrace cellular tech. It will happen.
Blame it on the greed of the telecommunications machine and a technologically ignorant Congress.
The same poll will show overwhelming lust for the ZunePhone when it’s released. For now both iPhone and ZunePhone are just vaporware.
Hey MDN: can we get the rumormill started on the ZunePhone?
I was watching on Italian TV what some of the cell phones can and will do in Japan and Europe. Amazing.
On a Euro + Japan Front. I certainly wonder if Apple will provide a much more powerful phone to them. otherwise, the device will simply be fashionable and technically behind what they already have.
As for us Americans, the iPhone looks like this Giant leap cutting edge technology. WE are so in the dark ages.
Why does the story use a photo of the Linksys iPhone?
Hey jovial, just shut up you troll. The ZunePhone is nothing but a fantasy of yours.
Is the Zune even available in Europe and Japan. I will have to visit a computer store here in Italy and see what they have. I see loads of people here using the iPod.
In fact, late afternoon/early evening on the ETR train from Milan to Rome, I was on the train walking to the dinning care and noticed those that were listening to any device was using an iPod of sorts. No other device, such as the Zune was being used. The Zune is devoid of cutting edge technology. Italians have high standards for technology, cars, fashion, food, and coffee. By the way, not one Starbucks here!
And a new phenomenon is about to be born: the iPhone halo effect. All the PC box assemblers will be shitting their pants.
um, yea… “free” is the key here. the masses aren’t gonna get the iphone until the price drops to the 300-400 range…. it’ll happen inevitably, just like it does with every new gadget that comes out…
what is the ugly thing next to iPhone?
it’s white, with iPhone name on it?
is it Cisco’s iPhone?
see here:
Kiss any kind of statistical relevance goodbye now <– LOL [86% now].
MDN forgot to add “You know what to do.” Someone please help! What should I do?
“overwhelming lust for the ZunePhone”
I think you have lust and uncontrollable projectile vomiting confused.
that’s BS david, i live in europe too, and u know perfectly well that there is no phone like the iPhone here.
actually, the phones u get in Europe are the same as in the USA, but without the limitations imposed by the carriers.
but u are right about the networks of course, they are better in europe because it’s more densely populated.
no the Zune is not available in europe, for at least another 6 months, if it still exists by then.
@David
It seems all you are talking about is access to fast data speeds. Why do you assume that iPhone WON’T make use of those technologies when it launches in Europe and the Far East? It almost cetainly will, and Apple will help ensure that AT&T moves a bloody site faster to catch up..
No other phone is a revolution. Fast maybe, but not one of them is unique. Only Apples iPhone can offer. Try putting a price on that.
Every American should be extremely proud that this product is the brainchild of your country.
I’m delighted and proud being British that Jony Ive is on the team too!
anyone else noticed this: “iPhone carrier-Ciingular. Exclusive. For years.”
seems like a cheap shot… or am I just suffering ‘fanboy’ paranoia?
anyone else notice this: “iPhone carrier-Ciingular. Exclusive. For years.”?
seems like a cheap shot… or am I just suffering ‘fanboy’ paranoia?
Wow, relevant and largely true commentary from all on this message today. (Well, except for jovial pc boy, but what can you expect from the delusional?)
So, yes, the poll is blown by MDN linking to it.
It’s also skewed by the ‘free’ issue. (So, basically, if cost were not important, would you elect to own a Ferrari or a Volkswagen Golf?)
I agree that the phones in the rest of the world are incrementally better than what is available now in the U.S., but the service in the U.S. just BLOWS relative to the rest of the world, particularly South Korea, and strangely enough, places like the Dominican Republic.
As an American, I continue to be proud of the wonderfully well designed products that come out of Apple. (On the other hand, I guess we also encompass Redmond, WA, as well, so . . I guess we shouldn’t crow too much about our design elan.)
One company is responsible for stagnating technology in the US…Micro$oft.
That Europe is soo advanced in technology is a myth. Germany internet connections are still lame.