iPhone

The best summary of the iPhone I’ve seen. The device is beautiful, does everything you could dream of and more but is fatally tied (the phone locks out other SIMs) into a 2 year contract with dubious Cingular.

To give Apple credit, ALL of the USA mobile networks in are terrifyingly poor – with Cingular arguable the best of the GSM providers.
But why upon why do they not just sell this (also) as an unlocked consumer device? The price would be reprehensible, but the volume would match.