"Oxford" <colalovesosx@verysmart.com> wrote in message
news:colalovesosx-6972E3.01283011112007@mpls-nnrp-04.inet.qwest.net...
> Mark Crispin <MRC@Panda.COM> wrote:
>
> Poor Mark has to really dig around to find bad news on the highly
> successful launch of iPhone in the UK, and Germany.
>
> One quick view of this YouTube Video shows the incredible excitement of
> the first modern cellphone to be introduced in Europe in over 2 decades!
>
> Wow! Just Wow!
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3aPhe8QYmQ
>
> The press is covering all the big news quite well, only the people
> scared of the iPhone seem to be upset. Nokia is extremely worried by
> this event, they can't get anyone to stand in line, much less buy their
> poorly featured, heavy, very expensive cell phones. Apple has them by
> the balls and they can't do a thing about it at this point in the game.
>
> Typical news is positive, over 10,000 sold in the first day in Germany.
>
> In Germany, the phone went on sale at more than 700 T-Mobile shops,
> including one in Cologne that opened just after midnight with some 350
> customers already waiting outside.
>
> By 5 p.m., Deutsche Telekom AG, which owns T-Mobile, said it sold more
> than 10,000 iPhones in Germany through its shops and online.
>
> http://snipurl.com/1tgpe
>
> ---
> Apple's handset pulls the crowds
>
> Hordes of iPhone fans descended on Apple's flagship Regent Street store
> in London yesterday hoping to be the first to get their hands on the
> much-hyped mobile device.
>
> The earliest had been queuing since 8am the previous morning, through
> freezing rain. Many had been in line for at least 10 hours.
>
> When the doors opened at 6.02pm fans ran in to the store between lines
> of cheering staff. They emerged moments later, like Olympic athletes
> crossing the finishing line, brandishing their boxed iPhones in triumph.
>
> O 2 , the UK's largest mobile phone operator, which secured exclusive
> rights to supply telephone contracts for the iPhone in the UK, said it
> had ordered "hundreds of thousands" of iPhone handsets to meet demand
> over Christmas and into the new year.
>
> Carolina Milanesi, analyst at Gartner, a consultancy, said between
> 350,000 and 400,000 iPhones could be sold in the first two months.
>
> http://snipurl.com/1tgpg
>
> So now we have France to add to the mix on November 29th, and they'll be
> selling fully unlocked iPhones, so a total of 650,000 iPhones in 2
> months in Europe will far outweigh what Nokia can do within this class
> of phone.
>
> So Apple is off to a strong start, it will be the No. 1 phone revenue
> wise / feature wise in Europe within 6 months.
>
> You can buy one here:
>
> http://www.iphone.com/
>
>

You say "much less buy their
poorly featured, heavy, very expensive cell phones"

OK, lets have a look at the features of the N95 8GB v iPhone

N95 8GB
iPhone
User Replacable Battery Yes No
3G Yes
No
HSDPA Yes
No
Camera 5MP
2MP (I think)
Video Recorder Yes No
GPS Yes
No


Need I go on? I do however accept that the iPhone has the best user
interface nut I don't think it will take Nokia and Symbian long to address
that.

Perhaps you can explain what other unique features the iPhone has?