Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Thanks to all that commented here. What I am hearing is sort of what I expected, I have heard some nay-sayers - but they are generally friend who has one hates it (exactly as Schmooze states, "second hand negatives").

I was hoping that JeepMutt would chime in here too. He was an early iPhone adopter, and is not otherwise and Apple guy (not already biased, and not shy about sharing his opinion).

If the features they are talking about do drop (gotta have GPS man), I will likely get one, even at flipping 400-500 bucks, which is way more than I would typically spend on a phone (the CrackBerry has me addicted to getting my email on the phone, and even though I hate Opera Mini and the RIM browser for web surfing over EDGE, and that translated not the real site crap, it's still sometimes handy, so I don't think I can walk away from a mobile computer type phone - and if I can get one that's also a good video iPod and has WiFi, well, I suppose that justifies the price).

One other question, can I use the damn thing for DATA transfer? Meaning can I use it like my Shuffle and Nano let me do, setup part of the partition as data and transfer files? I hear tell the Touch disallows that, which seems insane, does the iPhone suffer the same stupidity?