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Posts that contain IPhone per day for the last 30 days:

Posts that contain N800 per day for the last 30 days:

How about posts that contain Nokia per day for the last 30 days:

Amazing. I wonder how much Apple spent on the marketing for iPhone launch?

Speaking of the iPhone, I've been happily using mine since release and I've been able to do what I wanted to for the past few years: use a PDA sized device to browse my favorite websites and have them render on the device in an acceptable time frame. Using the iPhone for browsing is a delight and is many times faster than my n770. The cpu in the iPhone is a screamer. I can listen to music via the iPod functions and browse (with multiple 'tabs') with ease- as long as I'm in wifi range. Edge is pokey, but the majority of my browsing is a work and at home, where there is plentiful wifi. Nothing else near this size can render pages this fast- it's faster than some older laptops I've used.

And having a real working phone to boot is just one less thing I have to carry around. I'm sure there is a place for the Internet Tablets, but the 770 was never so useful as this iPhone has been in just a few days of using it. My 770 is fun to hack around with for a few hours at a time, but I've never been able to use it like i can the iPhone. And just imagine what is going to spill out once Apple gets a SDK out. Ebook readers alone will be a killer app. A lot of possibilities.