Yup, I'd have an imported iPhone right now if it I didn't need the BB for work.

People love carrying their work around with them while not working!

Oh. Wait, no they don't.

- Xidius

@Xidius: Its not so much about loving it, as much as still having a job to go to.

Sweet Photoshop.

I left my Treo 650 for the iPhone

Ex Treo 650 user here too. I can't say I miss the routine crashing.

@BEN: Me too. One of my good friends sold me on the Treo. It was great!

i would get an iPhone if I wanted to waste my money...

Went from WM5. I miss the activesync over EVDO goodness. I do not miss the crashing and using the stylus to dial the phone.

Checking my corporate e-mail using IMAP with the iPhone is fine. It just doesn't delete from the server when you delete a message. It will mark them read though.

Also, for you non-IMAP people- I usually for crackberrys just forward peoples stuff to them as well as their exchange mailbox for example. You could get your IT to do the same and forward it to a yahoo account. Yahoo's supposed to have push on iPhone. Let iTunes sync your contacts from outlook.

The only thing not friendly is the billing. AT&T will not do iPhone on a business account. I have to bill to myself at my work address and have the receptionist make sure she gets that bill to accounts payable.

Oh, and the fact that I can't get insurance.

I certainly would not give up my BB 8300 for an iphone. I say no thank you sir!

Yep, gave up my Verizon Treo 700w for an iPhone.

Is this a stupidity quiz? ;^P HEHEHE

I dropped my Sidekick...not now, but a week after SK1 was first released, POS. Seriously I went from a HTC VOX to the iPhone and haven't looked back (just try syncing WM6 to OSX)

I'm going from my BB pearl to a iPhone. I'll actually save money overall with the price of the data plan. $30-$40 /mth for BB and only $20/mth for iPhone which also includes 200 txt messages. (not that that's enough)

Had the sidekick 3, was very curious about iphone. Tried it out and can't stand not having a physical keyboard and paying $600 for a phone that doesn't do even basic crap like IM is bullsh!t. Just bought a HTC TyTN II. Thing is pure gold.

Im with MCGARRY83, I wont give up my 8800 for the iphone. nooo way.

I dropped the sk3 for the iPhone. While I miss the AIM client; the media player and real browser make up for it.

It was definitely a touch transition though.

I also have a blackberry curve for work, and I don't understand people who claim that it can do everything an iPhone does. The only thing that makes me use it is the integrated BES (which is all server-side).

My contract with Verizon expired in July and I bought a Helio Ocean (the ones falling from the sky in the above image) instead of an iPhone. On the downside it's very bulky, but on the upside it has email, IM, and GPS. All of which I used all the time. The dual slider design works well, and is solidly constructed, and the real keyboard makes touch typing possible.

Still using my Sprint Treo 700p (which rarely crashes)... And I'm even a Mac guy.

i ate my treo and 10 years of sprint service for iphone/at&t. but seriously, dropped calls make it all but fun making calls to friends. it's a gamble when i'm lying down on my bed. quel fun!

I replaced my Razr V3m with MetroPCS for the iPhone. The iPhone is a million times better, but I miss the way cheaper and unlimited MetroPCS service. With AT&T, however, I have not had nearly as many dropped calls and screwed up text messages as I did with MetroPCS. I think Apple should be getting a IM app out soon because they need to compete with the sidekick.

My phone immediately preceding the iPhone was a Motorola but there was a Treo 650 in my past as well.

I don't miss either of them. The Treo was fine but the Motorola UI was (is) such garbage.

BTW I love that iPhone godzilla picture!

I'm dumping my Blackberry for an iPhone asap.

I'm waiting for some Xmas/post-Xmas hardware updates, then I'm in. Good things come to those who wait, and even sooner if you're talking about Apple.

dropped a treo, even though it had software I needed. Thing never synced, froze, ugly. Rather have an iphone all day and a 50 buck palm for when I need it at work.

My Blackberry Pearl broke on the day that the iPhone price dropped. I bought the iPhone the next day. Since I didn't use corporate e-mail, there's nothing about the Pearl that I miss. I especially won't miss it's tendency to dial numbers all by itself if I forgot to lock the keypad.

I had a Treo 680, which I got to replace my Treo 600. the 600 constantly had call quality issues due to an improperly shielded wire inside. Did a fix on it but it still sucked to the point people I called wouldn't speak to me because there was so much interference on their end. The 680 didn't have that issue but talk about a machine pushed into the market before it was ready. Spent 6 months with it and hated every day. iPhone is infinitely more useful, despite the lack of Exchange support (yet), which is its lone major issue for me. Still, the times I'm actually away from a computer are so minimal, that it's not that big a deal in the end. Palm is in trouble.

I was rocking a Motorola z3 and Sidekick 3. I dumped the both to stand in line for my iPhone. I've been using the Danger products since the first black and white Sidekick. It was the only phone with a great keyboard and decent browser. Needless to day I'm a lot happier with my iPhone. I was tired of carrying a sidekick, z3, and iPod around with me.

LOL "Did you dropped your treo", George W. Bush is writing for Giz now.

I doubt the watermark status of asking Giz readers. Since in the wild I have now only seen 3 since launch, on being returned one at an art thing and one in a very bad neighborhood(all three I'm not joking). What is you guys compared the sales figures for the HTC Touch that I hear is doing really well without all the Apple hype.

@Ultraorange:
HTC makes the best phones. I have a wizard and my friend just got a kaiser. OMG im so jealous.

Dropped my SK3 for an iPhone. Won't ever look back. Never had a leash i.e. blackberry and unless my work starts paying for my cell service, I never will. I work so I can have a life, not the other way around...

@thud3333:

I too just got the Kaiser. It's fantastic.

hahaha helio oceans are dropping from the sky like bombs... the ocean is one of the only phones that can truly be better than the iPhone, both in coolness and usability.

I got the Kaiser too... (8925 AT&T Tilt that is)

It's awesome. 3G, Edge when 3G isn't available, hardware keyboard, touch screen, windows mobile apps, AND GPS built in. Tilt screen for easy viewing while you type.

Can use it as a modem for your laptop, as well.

All this for $299. PDAs need keyboards if you want to do anything serious with them. Virtual keyboards are for the birds.

still on the blackberry, and not willing to keep up with two phones... two laptops and one phone is enough to deal with.

If my employer were to ditche Lotus Notes I would consider switching to a hacked iPhone.

As soon as that $200 price cut hit, I dropped my Sidekick 3 and T-Mobile contract like a bad habit. Got me an 8GB iPhone and have never looked back. Seriously, if there was any doubt I had, it was all confirmed ignorance to never actually using and owning an iPhone.

It really is the Jesus Phone. Especially when you have it hacked with 3rd Party Apps. The wealth of awesomeness this phone can provide is almost limitless because of the hackers.

iPhone. Best. Gadget. Ever.

why is helio flying by?

couldn't drop my T-Mobile MDA fast enough - WM5 cr@p!

50% of the folks inline with me on iDay were swapping from another carrier to AT&T.

I bought a Palm Centro instead of the iPhone.

I dumped my Treo 650 for the iPhone. Overall happy with the choice, although i do miss 3rd party apps...

Kicked a Sprint Motorola Q to the curb.

fuck an iphone

i was considering a q or a blackberry bfr i switched carriers and bought the iPhone so fast Verizon didn't have to say "wha-"

love the iphone, hate the verizon (and hate apple for being dicks about unlocking and 3rd party apps).

Nope. I bought a sprint mogul. If I could run an iphone for $30 /month w/EVDO things would be different. They get you on the come-back.

I won't be giving up my Treo until the iPhone has 3rd party apps, 3G service, Java and Flash support, and ANYONE other than AT&T as the service provider (preferably Sprint).

Sprint has an interesting billing system.

Spint has a "credit limit" for each account. Supposedly this credit limit is supposed to "go up" every 3-6 months or so, but for some reason my account never did for 3 years.

Eventually the PPC 6700 comes out and I order it via telesales since it wasn't in stock at any of the stores. Or more accurately the stores were reserving the phones in stock for "new customers only."

Whatever.

So when you order anything on your account it bills your account and then if you pay immediately it cancels out the item you paid for.

Example: Credit limit of $126 monthly. My monthly bill was around $62 dollars.

The new phone was $399..

So the telesales bills my account $399 (399+62=461) putting me $335 over the "spending limit."

This kicks in Sprints automated "shut off if over limit" feature and my phone gets cut off. Never mind the fact that I paid immediately via CC. Since the bill went over my spending limit it immediately shut off my service.

So I call in to clear this up and they explain to me i went over my spending limit. I ask them to check my balance which they say $62.

Seeing an error the CSR rep tries to "help" me. I have no clue what they did, but my phone turned on after 3 hours.

Afterwards, every month when my bill was due I would start getting text messages at 6 am, every hour letting me know my phone would get cut off if I didn't pay my bill.

Except my bill is automatically paid and that I was well under the "spending limit".

Soon at 8 am I would get automated phone calls about this too.

It was driving me insane.

Eventually I called up sprint and no one would talk to me because some how, my account was listed as an "employee account".

I called up the "employee account" service department number i was given and they too could not help me because my account was (to them) not an employee account.

I spent about 14 hours of 3 days calling back and forth to get this straightened up.

Eventually I went to sprintusers.com and got the number of the business and executive services department.

The business department never got back to me but eventually someone in the executive services department helped me out. It took 3 days to resolve and on the 3rd day I got a call saying they have removed my "spending limit."