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It looks like a beautiful device, but putting out a smartphone in june with only EDGE data, only on Cingular, is kind of craptastic.


Craptastic only here in the US. I'm sure Apple was looking at the 82% market share GSM phones have worldwide when they made that decision. The US isn't the market phone manufacturers normally target, since people here don't upgrade quite as often, and we have so many different wireless "standards" to deal with.

It really is a shame to think the US market isn't leading in the wireless technology space, but much like our crappy internet service, landmass and political lobbying has allowed other countries to pass us by.