Originally Posted by bigviking
There isn't a single other phone on the market that will make almost everyone with something else want to ditch it after a five minute demo. I have owned the best of the best smartphones, and was never able to impress anyone even 10% as much as I can with this. The web, email, & ipod portion are just so much better than everything else (MS exchange issues aside) that a comparison isn't even sensible.
That's so true. While I was impressed with my other PDA phones over the years, the vast majority of the people I demo'ed them to weren't all that impressed, certainly not enough to go buy one for themselves. Most people found them to be excessively complex and hard to navigate/use.
The exact opposite has been the case with my iPhone. I've had so many people on the train ask me what I was playing with, and when I showed them they were so wow'ed they were talking about going to investigate buying one for themselves. The people range from being 20-something to 40-something. This phone has BROAD appeal, far more than I thought it would before owning one.