link this iPhone directly into a computing cloud. I'm willing to wait, but I think the applications for iPhone are going to make this device a landmark. I'm just amazed that Apple is bothering to improve the iPhone at all. Not that it doesn't need the improvement, but seriously, it's so much better than every other handheld device out there that they could just sit on their hands for three years and still have no serious competitors. Blackberries are feature-rich but interface-poor: awkward and convoluted. I tried LG's supposed iPhone competitor, and it was laughable. Samsung's announcement today looks no better. All the iPhone competitors make the mistake of try to compete by having a longer feature checklist. They just don't get it that for the great majority of customers, most of these feature don't matter. People just want a device that is straightforward and pleasant to use. That certainly does not describe any iPhone competitor I've seen. I'm generalising slightly but for us non-US dwellers, 3G is often the norm and is in some cases cited as the holdoff for getting the iPhone to us in the first place (here in Australia, for example, we have about 95-99% 3G coverage countrywide depending on which of the 4 big mobile networks you're on, and every network has a 3G service). I guess we'll see how the battery life goes as it plays out over the first few months of its arrival. The one other thing I'd say in regard to