When Meridian and other companies get lambasted for the supposedly “buggy” products that they release, all this iPhone over-hype hysteria is genuinely hard to take.

See link below which describes the iPhone as (and there are many other similar reviews)

• “the iPhone is the best iPod ever - ironic for something not even called an iPod!

• But it's just a plain lousy phone

• And although it makes some exciting advances in handheld Web browsing, it's not the Internet in your pocket.”

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2082361,00.asp

I`m sure that when they release the same device as the 6G iPod (without phone functions) it will start to make a lot more sense. By the time they get to the 3G iPhone, it may even have caught up with Nokia, Windows Mobile and Blackberry and be usable as a Phone, Text, Email and Comms device!!!

Given its name and the fact that it costs a Minimum of $1,300 in the first year to own, these lapses are hard to understand or accept

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