Pankaj Kumar's Weblog

I think you always have to be careful with new “groundbreaking” products. Despite the fact that we as a culture have come to prize the new so highly, and having the new before anyone else even more, there are clear downsides to being the first on your block to own that fancy new gadget. The most obvious is the fact that first offerings, even if they don’t have bugs (which I think would be unusual), certainly will be missing important future features. It’s only after wide distribution that a company can get enough feedback to recognize which features the general public actually wants. Then, of course, there’s the possibility that a product won’t last, meaning that support will dry up as well. I don’t see that as the case with the iPhone, but one never knows for sure. Finally, however, we all know that, with the current pace of technology development, most products that show up on the market are going to be obsolete in six months anyway. We all know how frustrating it is to buy a DVD when it first comes out only to discover some months later that it’s now in the bargain bin at Wal-Mart. So, see what comes over the next several months, and at worst get an iPhone for much less. It won’t be the “latest,” but it will still have all that you wanted today.

We have the same set of criteria for a phone to work us. In addition to being sleek, thin, flexibility, being multi-purpose, and accessibility to the Internet, I would also love to have something that will enable me to join video conferences for work and for friends and will allow me to share files through it.

iPhone didn’t sell well in our local market because it’s very expensive and most of the units that came are locked to AT&T. But, personally, I didn’t include it in my must-have list because it didn’t give a clear explanation as to its ability to access Gmail.

We have the same set of criteria for a phone to work us. In addition to being sleek, thin, flexibility, being multi-purpose, and accessibility to the Internet, I would also love to have something that will enable me to join video conferences for work and for friends and will allow me to share files through it.

iPhone didn’t sell well in our local market because it’s very expensive and most of the units that came are locked to AT&T. But, personally, I didn’t include it in my must-have list because it didn’t give a clear explanation as to its ability to access Gmail.

iPhone is really in everybody’s must-have list. Despite of being expensive, everyone desires to have it as it is really an all-in-one phone. iPhone – nothing compares.