• iWant one

    Damien (along with even the most hardened of Microsoft fanatics) has fallen in love with the newly announced iPhone and wants one now – well he’s certainly not alone on these shores.
    With the Apple Store down we’ve yet to see if us Irish consumers will be able to get one with anything resembling ease and two important factors, price and battery life, seem to be missing from all the buzz… saying that, with PMP, phone & PDA features all jumbled into an OS X-based package and finish with the kind of design you would only expect from Apple it would take an astronomical price and a horrendous battery life to quell my need for this device.

    Update: Looks like the phone will be available from June of this year in the US, and 4th quarter for Europe (would that include Ireland? Who knows?). Price in the US will be $499 (€380) for a 4GB model and $599 (€460) for an 8GB model – that’s with a 2 year contract… ouch.
    Now, if there’s any way to turn this into a dictaphone-cum-mobile podcasting studio, I’d be 100% sold on it.
    From Engadget: