As everyone is probably fully aware, the Apple iPhone was released on Friday 9th November. So naturally BBC News had a poll on the homepage asking “Are you going to buy an iPhone.” The question everyone has been saying lately. The question is then often rephrased, would you if you could afford it? Followed by, do you mind being stuck with O2 for 18 months.

Its pending arrival has been much talked about on blogs and newspapers for the last few weeks, and now, 5 months since its release in the United States, it can be purchased in the UK.

I could be oh so cynical about it all, believe me its taking a lot for me not to, but I can’t because I want one. The reason I don’t have one is that I cannot afford anything at such a cost right now.

Phones are phones – used for making calls and sending txt messages. That is all. Or at least that was my way of looking at it until I set eyes on the iPhone and then touched one in America in the Summer.

Yes I agree, the iPhone is quite revolutionary. They are on a crazy streak of producing such ground breaking products. The test will be in whether it works all the time, and what will happen after a year? Will it die like the iPod does? Like my iPod did?

But I suppose when someone actually puts a music player, camera, phone and internet and lots of other applications on a device this size they are onto something and so my previous belief that there is no need for that stuff on a phone goes completely out the window – for this time it works, and so far seems to work quite well.

Though surely it will go down in price and will be upgraded a million times in the next couple of years, making it affordable for the average user (or those desperate but without funds). When it does I will get one then and will look forward to that day.
Anyway, I like my Nokia 6230i!

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