Underwhelmed. It has a keyboard, which is nice, however, $35 a month for a data plan? Why is this a better thing than the $20 a month TMo charges when you buy a SideKick?
All Apple has to do to shoot this thing in the head, is to release a Bluetooth keyboard capability for the iPhone. Then it will be DOA.
I have a hard time believing that Apple will ever put their name on a clunky external keyboard for a phone. The whole idea just screams "ugly" to my sense of aesthetics. Keep an extra gadget in your pocket just so you can type on your phone? (even worse: it'd have to clip on to the phone or something for access to the display). Ick.
An undocumented hack is going to shoot the G1 in the head and make it DOA? I wasn't saying that this couldn't be done. I was saying that Apple would never do it, because it's an aesthetic disaster.
I won't comment on whether or not it's a disaster (MobileMe, anyone), but it's really just not that useful. There is not that much to do on your phone that would require a real keyboard. If you want a real keyboard, get an Eeepc instead of an iPhone.
When the Android was first announced, I wondered which providers would support it, because sooner or later someone was going to develop VOIP capability (like the siphon project for the iPhone), and no one would be paying the provider network access charges.
All Apple has to do to shoot this thing in the head, is to release a Bluetooth keyboard capability for the iPhone. Then it will be DOA.