It's a terrible phone -- lousy reception, marginal voice quality, can't change the battery like almost every other phone, uses a cut SIM card [yeah, I have a SIM cutter, but that's only to put two or more providers on a SIM card], GSM phone that can't roam affordably outside the US [i.e. locked], missing essential frequencies for data roaming, has video calling only between iPhones [I've had video calling for over 3 years and can call anyone with a camera phone]. And it's GLASS. Hey, Apple, even Gorilla glass breaks! It's a pretty good iPod.

Actually iPod Touch is better than iPhone--slim, light, like my non-Apple phone--except that it's GLUED TOGETHER, and the camera is pathetic. I use a last gen iPhone as an iPod. It's a pretty good radio, but not both Internet and FM, like my real phone. Of course I have to carry two small devices instead of one heavy, breakable iPhone with pentalobe screws that they don't want you to open. Lose the iPhone, so that cell phones won't have such a pathetic yet flashy competitor to keep them down.

Verizon has a monopoly in CDMA in its spectrum. They want to justify this by supporting an awful merger that will create a GSM monopoly.

The merger hurts all cell phone users in the US by eliminating competition. It especially hurts T-Mobile customers like me who left Cingular or AT&T for better service. How many people think that this merger will improve AT&T service and support? Not me.

We need more competition, net less, for both CDMA and GSM.

AT&T's new price structure could be their reaction to Apple's new iMessage.

Again, pay more, get less. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Why use a jack at all?

Apple could make a tiny bluetooth headset that slides into the iPhone. Slide it out and it can attach "magically" to an embedded magnet in your earlobe, like jewelry. Should be easy for the multiple-piercing crowd.

I live east of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. The only phones with any reception are Nokia phones. Best is the old 1100, then 6010, older N-series. Newer phones get worse reception. Nothing at all with Moto, S-E, iPhone. Samsung. Bummer.

Nokia 1100 doesn't even have a camera. The flashlight is wonderful.

Isn't the monthly charge similar in Euros in other European countries? I bought a SIM card for less than 10 Euros that had unlimited data.

Where I live, the only choice in broadband is slow DSL [1 Mbps] for $15/month--a great deal compared to our dial-up---and cable for $68/mo 5-15 Mbps. The other provider said we'll never get fiber because "nobody" lives here [on the Chesapeake Bay].

Choosing between too slow for downloads and highway robbery is not a choice.

I'm beginning to think that locked-down Apple is infinitely more evil than M$.

Steve Ballmer's problem is that he doesn't have a huge reality distortion field like Steve Jobs.

Word of the day for Steve Ballmer: PREVARICATE, but don't quit!

Forgot to mention it's DSL. Sometimes I have to disconnect the phone line at the box outside and wait a half an hour to reconnect. That helps.

Our Verizon Internet connection has been dropping---via both WiFi and ethernet. Sometimes it comes back by itself in five to ten minutes. Otherwise have to reboot the modem. When I called Verizon, first they did what they always do, blame the customer--"Did you reboot your computer?" "All six of them?" Really.

They sent a new modem. Very nice modem. No external antenna. Same problem with connection dropping--but now we have a backup modem! I think it's in their switch located about a mile down the road in a 6' deep concrete pit, in a very wet area, and it's been raining a lot more than usual this year. We also will be replacing the internal line some time this summer with Cat 6 cable. Might help. Maybe.

It's part of APPle. Naturally.

They can convince iPhone and iPad owners to pay too much for their devices AND advertise for Apple without payment every time they send a message.

Everything Apple says is true. Because. They said it. Naturally.

Especially the hamster.

Wind, hydro, hamsters depend on the sun. Geothermal using heat stored in the earth's crust, depends on solar. If you're tapping geothermal heat from a volcano or well below the earth's crust, please tell us how to do that safely!

We use solar and geothermal for about 70-80% of heating and cooling. Our cats do it naturally. Why are they always warm when they come in from cold weather and cool when they come inside in the summer? Anyone speak CAT??!