No.

Apple are good at marketing.  And preying on the weak and the feeble minded.

I’m in that club as well, I have a SE W995 which I’m more than happy with I use my phone mostly for calls, I also use it as a replacement for my old Ipod and it takes a decent pic (for a phone) since I replaced the software with that from a SE 805.

Some people really do buy into the Apple “lifestyle” and seem to think that they are in some “special” club because they own one and paying twice as much as I did for my phone! lol

Iv run windows phones for years, finally got an iPhone and.. meh aside from the fact its an ipod theres no advantage.. and to me the iPhone 4 is just a 3Gs that actually does what it should have done to begin with.

get to the app store then

Which is pretty much the summary of what my phone has and it does 90% of that very well.

What they are fantastic at is taking ideas from multiple sources putting them in one package and polishing it into a smooth fluid experience.

Everything works, everything has the same feel, everything feels like it was made by a team of people looking for excellence.

Other things feel cobbled together to try and be first or catch up.

Id go with this tbh...

I was considering HTC - Im probably going to go for a new iphone

Since purchasing my current iphone about 1 1/2 years ago Ive since got a macbook and am tempted to buy an imac when they go through the next release cycle (I am turning into a "fanboy" it seems) - 27 inch screen, no wires, no mess and it looks f**king sexual.

I used to slag off macs when I was actually bothered about cost and my PC was something Id assembled myself. Now Im no longer a student Im not that fussed about spending a few hundred extra as its no longer a large chunk of my disposable income. I though the iphone was fairly slick, decided to buy a macbook (thinking I could always whack ubuntu or windows on it if I didnt like it) and now Im more than happy with it and very much a convert to OS X.

I also like to buy my jeans from Diesel - Im sure that people who simply look at specs could perhaps tell me that Tesco own brand use the same type of cotton but then theyd be missing the point...

The only thing that annoys me is they get on as if they invented apps, they seem to forget the massive amount of them out for windows ce, and more importantly - epoc/epoc32, the grand daddy.

Theyll have invented tablet PCs soon too

Not they didnt invent App Stores, or the concept of one.  But I think its fair to say its the first commercially successful one that actually worked.

I think they dealt with the Wifi issues pretty well, 571 Wifi spots including those Mifi is pretty impressive.

Apple staff are extremely passionate about their products, perhaps so passionate they have convinced themselves with their own marketing.  Its not like they are reinventing the wheel, but they certainly do improve upon it.  They are not the first at a lot of ideas, IE multitasking, but they seems to allways get it right when they do implement ideas.  I still find the idea they reinvented the phone amusing.

Overall I feel this is good step forward for the iphone, its needed a redesign for a while with such a move forward with the OS, using the actual structure for the aerial is a great idea.  Im glad to see they have focussed on durability while reducing the thickness once again.  Better processor, bigger battery, the screen Ill wait till I see in person.

I absolutely agree with Nexus on the camera, Phone cameras are great for snaps on the move, they really should be half decent these days and have some sort of flash, my donkeys years old K750i was and is better than the current 3GS.  Im glad they have improved the optics and not just put more MP in the same size sensor.  Ive got my Lumix for real photos.

Honestly the change I am looking forward to the most in OS 4.0 is multiple exchange accounts.

The only thing that annoys me is they get on as if they invented apps, they seem to forget the massive amount of them out for windows ce, and more importantly - epoc/epoc32, the grand daddy.

I and my mates were writing beerware (Does anyone remember that!) for the psion series of devices before most iphone users were born.

If they were that good then why havent they been as successful? Apple came into this late in the game and has a app market that completely eclipses anyone else.