I have trouble getting phone reception in my apartment with my iPhone. If I had known this before, I might not have gotten it. I love the apps for the iPhone, it's a great entertainment device, but using it as an actual phone has been frustrating.

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Some 34% of people surveyed by Pricegrabber.com said they would not buy the iPhone 3GS because they didn't want AT&T as their service provider.

 

Pricegrabber surveyed 2,411 consumers between June 12 and

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http://www.businessinsider.com/34-of-consumers-not-buying-the-iphone-3gs-because-of-att-survey-says-2009-7

I really don't have any problems with mine as a phone...

Canada doesn't have enough service providers jockeying for network space to have the same reception issues as AT&T though...

I have Verizon.

Good point. Steve Nash seems cool and he's from Canada. So Canada is probably cool.

Did I say how I love apps for tthe iPhone. Well, by apps I basically mean video games.

Yes, that means there are between 10,000 and 15,000 apps that are games, just for the iPhone alone. To put that in perspective, that is more than the total number of apps that all of the App Store’s big competitors (Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm’s App Catalog, BlackBerry’s App World) have — combined. Sure, all of those stores are younger than the App Store, but it’s already clear that none are taking hold as true gaming platforms like the iPhone is.

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I’m someone who, as I’ve grown older, has found that I don’t have much time or patience for gaming. But there I am on the iPhone at least once a week now checking for the hot new games and downloading them. They’re fantastic, and they’re not $50 or $60 like current console games are. Some, like FlightControl are simple and addictive. Others like Rolando 2, make perfect use of all the iPhone’s capabilities like multi-touch and the accelerometer. Some rival fun I have with console

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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/22/the-iphone%E2%80%99s-competitors-have-a-big-problem-their-games-stink/