Updated: The Unincredible iPhone

Now that the excruciatingly long wait for iPhone’s release is finally over, it turns out the gadget isn’t quite as cool and sleek as it should be with the kind of price tag it currently bears. I have to confess I don’t have one, so my views on what the iPhone is like are mostly based on what I’ve read other people write and whine about it.

iPhone’s main problem probably is that you can’t install programs of your own choosing on it, or the fact that there’s no 3G, which is pretty much a standard in today’s phones, instead of 3G the iPhone has EDGE – EDGE of course is a.k.a “2,5G” – the glorious iPhone doesn’t even have a proper browser, even then the browser is lacking java and flash support and to make matters worse you’re forced to have AT&T, the former Cingular, as your carrier, but hey it still has a pretty darn cool logo on the side of it, doesn’t it?

After the release of the iPhone there’s already been attempts to open the device and see what’s inside of it and well let’s just say that some attempts some attempts have been more successful than others, but that’s not all people who don’t want to spend 500$ nor 600$ on an iPhone have already found a way to transform their old Windows Mobiles into iPhones, or at least into something iPhonysh…

However over expensive the phone is in all likelihood hackers of various sorts are already all over their iPhones trying to figure out how to hack it in order to install third party applications on it and they’ll most likely find a way to do so sooner or later, sort of like they did with the Apple TV a while ago.

UPDATE:

Alright guys, what’s up? I’ve done quite a bit of googling and checked out reddit almost religiously, trying to find out whether someone has already come up with a heap of iPhone hacks, but I haven’t found any yet… I mean, come on, it took what like two hours for one person to singlehandedly find six security exploits in the Windozed version of Safari and now you can’t come up with a way to hack a phone with better looks than specs? I thought there was supposed to be a way where there was will and where there was no will there was always google, but it turns out that was just a cliché.

I do of course understand that you’re all excited about your new iPod replacements, but do try to get over the exhilaration and produce me something to jargonize about for Christ’s sake – yeah, that’s right there are no atheists, when the deprivation of stories to blog about strikes home.

Even the number of articles published after the iPhone’s release seem obnoxiously few in number, if compared to the number of articles published about it, before its release. This can only mean one thing, Apple must have paid for bloggers and creatures alike to write a bunch of articles featuring the iPhone to get it on the tip of everyone’s tongue whenever they got online and now that the overpriced iPod has been released there is no need for such wide scale blogger bribing as there used to be preceding the release. Even Microsoft apparently did some blogger bribing of their own with Vista, wouldn’t it be possible that Apple might have done so too?