Apple's new hardware

[Häakon]

But EDGE is sooooo slooooowwwww, I'm so hoping they up it to 3G before the real launch. Seriously, EDGE is like dial-up.

I always wanted a lickable phone.

EDGE does suck, but the phone has integrated WiFi, so if you've got a wireless connection around you can get broadband speed to your phone (and best of all, not have to pay for any "data plan" fees to use it).

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

The iPhone is not as revolutionary as most seem to think, it's just that Archos are even worse than Apple use to be at promoting their products. They have a line called "Pocket Media Assistant" with WiFi, okay they use a pen not fingers, but use Linux (ie. open source! and there are a lot of free plugins, such as something resembling Skype allowing you to call via WiFi!), allow the recording of video from an analog input and have 30 GB of HD. Sadly this line has been replaced by a new line, which doesn't run Linux so is less open, the video recorder is not integrated anymore, but the screen is bigger, similar to the iPhone. A friend of mine has been using an Archos PMA 400 very happily for quite some time, it is amazing!

Cheers,
Damien

PS These are available right now, I'm trying to find one of the PMA 400s before they run out.

Hell, even LG announced a phone a few months ago that's pretty much identical:

http://www.slashphone.com/89/6073.html

 

[Poi Boy]

Pretty much not identical; especially with regard to the user interface, that is what really sets the apple phone apart.
Aloha
-A