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 I’ve been wondering exactly what Apple have been thinking. Yep, another smart phone to look at. I’ve no doubt that people will look due to the  iPod halo around Apple. And I’ve no doubt when it comes to quality owing, to the reputation of his Steveness.

There are however a few disturbing things about it. Robert Scoble:

I was much more excited about the iPhone yesterday than I am today. Why? Cause reality is setting in. This thing is not as good as it seems. Paul Kedrosky has the details. He forgot a few things (he lists five):

6) Battery is only two hours up to five hours and is not replaceable (if you play video). UPDATE: sorry for getting that wrong, but tons of people, including some Mac journalists told me it’d only get two hours in video playback mode. Watch a video and your battery is dead. Now your cell phone is dead too. So, you won’t want to watch a video on a plane flight with this thing like you would with your iPod.
7) It’s Cingular only and GSM. That automatically keeps more than half of Americans from considering this and for the rest of the world? They are laughing about the iPhone now.
The camera sucks. It’s a 2megapixel device without flash, without zoom. Nokia’s newest cameras blow this one away.
9) No GPS. For a $600 device that really, really, really sucks.

Scobe is right about the Nokia phones being way better. I just got a Nokia N73. And it really rocks. Its tons better than the iPhone, from what I’ve heard about it.  The touchpad? Please. I mean I’d rather have keys that you can actually touch rather than a touchpad any day of the week.

Steve’s joy might be premature after Cisco sued Apple for trademark infringment.  Yep, another blog to add to my blogroll. The issue is one of principle. Not that principle is a very common thing in business.  It seems that what apple did is the business version of pie in the face, except that nobody is laughing. Can Apple shrug this one off? Possibly. Trademark cases can take quite a while.

One gets the impression that Apple is trying to  cash in as much as possible on the popularity of the iPod. Cue European Competition Comission  involvment and 600 million euro fines.