Quote:


Remember...Apple told the first iPod owners who asked for battery replacements to buy new devices.



I'd like one, but I would wait until at least the 3rd or 4th generation of the product before I actually considered buying one. Like all new technology, there will be kinks to be ironed out, so let someone else fund Apple's R&D until they get it right, by which time either a) the price will have come down at least once or b) they will have released a smaller and cheaper entry-level version or a vastly ugraded version of the original.

Like the original iPod, in the first few months of release the iPhone will be a guaranteed mugger-magnet too. Moreso because people who often buy expensive new gadgets first also make a big deal of showing them off in public as well.

So wait for the smaller, sleeker, and better version 6-12 months down the line would be my approach.