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I'm quite happy with my Windows Mobile phone that I can develop custom applications for without worrying about bricking the phone.


Developing applications for the iPhone doesn't brick it. Fiddling with firmware for the modem "bricks" it, just like fiddling with the firmware on a Windows Mobile phone would "brick" it or other devices with firmware. And in February, a proper SDK from Apple will be out.

The device was never really bricked in the true sense even with the hacks that touched the modem firmware anyhow. There was a way to back out, and never anything forcing updates.

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impressive enough but what's the point in a cutting edge mobile device without cutting edge mobile speed?


I suppose over there it's probably a bigger deal. Here in the US, we are still kinda amazed little IP bits actually can fly over the air to our cell phones for the most part, only some people in some of those really large cities have the newer 3G IP bits.

Overall though, the speed of EDGE hasn't been a big deal for me. It's more then enough to load up a page to read while idle somewhere, and for serious browsing, I find I'm somewhere that has WiFi. Could just be the tech centric Austin though, seems nearly every business here has a public access point.