Someone filed class-action suit against Apple today over the battery issue. The maximum 300 charges only allows year or two use of the battery. Then you have send iPhone back for battery replacement. It would take 4-5 days and $80. How does that grab you? It is a real design flaw and there is no easy fix. To me, iPhone's real problem is practicality and usefullness beyond basic phone features. Web surfing over wifi is fun and efficient. But in real life, where you do have convenient wifi at home and hi-speed ethernet at work, iPhone just can not compete with your desktop PC with large LCD monitors or even laptops. While you are on the road, you definitely 3G like EVDO which iPhone doesn't support. Of course, you treat it a toy and gadget, that is different. You would certainly have fun with that. iPhone performs well as a basic phone. But then why you would spend $500-$600 for iPhone while you can get one for free at most carriers.

Computer is a junk without software support. This applies to PDAphones too. If you are accustomed to be served by the Palm's and WM's tens of thousands of softwares, iPhone is not for you. Apple says that iPhone is designed for consumers and the brower based applications are adequate. This said it all. The line has been drawn.

Can we have a phone that would serve us well with ample applications as well as the slick navigation like iPhone has? I think so. The HTC Touch and Vogue will the first generaton of those phones. TouchFLO made a good start. I would like to see that HTC keep enhance it and provide it to all their smartphones. May the future HTC 6900 has it all - TouchFLO, keyboard, 128mb RAM, a long-lasting battery, and a clean BT stack. That will be a real smartphone to own.