Apple's I Phone, where is phone.[Updated]

Apple's I-phone, that probably wont remain I phone as Cisco people are on fire and are burning apples.

And as of me, I am not at all excited about Apples Iphone.

First of all I want to know, that is it Ipod with telecommunication abilities or a phone with Ipod capabilities. And if its phoe then where is a numberpad. I am siting far away from the launch and all the hooh plah, but still what I can see is that there is no keypad, not even a virtual one. And when I showed it to my mom, she said that this is useless, and said that why should she spend some 600$ for a phone that does not have a keypad. And even I would prefer buying an Ipod and a phone separately. And Nokia is providing me better options here in India.

Apple is too much of a US centric company, which for such products is not good. And even of US point of view, they are locked on Cingular, and I dont think Cingular is having a 100% capture over market. Battery life as it is being reported sucks. Camera...just 2GB, humph... 600$ and +, I get only a 2MP camera, 2MP is just so normal. Apple will be very late when they will come in India, which is not going to happen in coming 1 year. And if Nokia and other players in India get on the social apron, then Apple is in for some big troubles.

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UPDATE:
As Abhishek has pointed out in his comment, that I have not mentioned about the cool features of Iphone, here they are...but this post was not meant to introduce you all to Iphone, which is done brilliantly over here, here and here. It was more of comment on Iphone, because when it is about gadget then one must have at least two senses at work, and I had only one, sight, and the touch was missing. And allways remember that it is a Smart Phone.
Cool features...

• All touch screen.(Ok..wash your hands before you touch it... ;-0
• Patented QWERTY key board(touch screen)
• Quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900)
• Visual Voicemail (Lists all voice mails and allows to select them as in emails.)
• On connectivity front; Bluetooth , Wi-Fi , POP3 and IMAP4 e-mail, and a Safari Web browser.
• Few sensors; proximity sensor: dims light when brought near to body( I want that in my room , when I increase proximity...[;-)], ambient light sensor adjusts brightness and saves power, accelerometer: switches screen from landscape and portrait mode.

The big question is, whether, iPhone would be able to break in mobile market or not? iPod was successful not just because of its design but also due to iTunes, which was there as a seamless support. What none of the mobile company have is ... something like iTunes. Xpress Music phones from Nokia would certainly pose some kind of challenge to iPhones.

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