It's been reported in
The Age that Telstra's Greg Winn thinks that Apple should not enter the mobile phone business. He's so wrong.
I've experienced a series of mainstream expensive phones from Sony Ericsson, Motorolla, and Nokia. Aside from the basic functionality of making and taking calls, the extra "smart" stuff tends to be confusing to use, buggy and often slow.
My current phone, a Nokia 6233, can be routinely crashed simply by forwarding an MMS. I'm no basic user, I want internet, bluetooth, MMS and email. Some of the things shown in the
Apple iPhone launch, like easy conference calling are probably possible but I dare not attempt them.
Current phone operating systems from
Symbian, and Palm haven't scaled well up to the requirements of multi-threaded networking applications.
Microsoft's Windows Mobile is looking pretty good these days (used to crash in earlier versions) but I hear the battery life is terrible on some devices.
We desperately need operating systems on phones that are built for the internet, you can't go past unix in that department. Where are the Linux phones? Apple takes great care with user interface, iPods have amazing depth of functionality in them yet they seem so simple to use, the competition has transformed the portable digital player marketplace over the past few years, I hope the iPhone does the same for the phone business.
I wonder what phone Greg Winn uses, and can he figure out how to set the APN for his MMS without going mad?
These giant iPhones are in the window of the local Apple store here. They play a full demo movie that looks great. 
