The 4/8 gig of memory is the same as the iPod nano. Whether we'll see a hard-drive based version of the iPhone down the road remain to be seen. (My guess is that a future iPhone will just have more flash memory, but the widescreen touch woo woo parts will show up on an iPod.)
My guess has always been that Apple started designing the iPhone without knowing what carrier they were going to be successful at bending over negotiating with. If they'd put higher-speed data in it initially, that would have limited their choices, and they needed to be able to say they could just walk away. I have a suspicion that Apple at first figured they'd be ending up using T-Mobile; last year, the two companies were making vaguely friendly statements at one another, and T-Mobile has been explicitly pushing the EDGE and Wi-Fi combination on their smart phones. But T-Mobile is used to being able to get their way with everything, and Apple is used to being able to get *their* way with everything... and from all appearances it's pretty damn hard to beat Steve Jobs in a stare-down contest. Cingular, on the other hand, is desperate.
None of which means it doesn't kind of suck that they don't have the higher-speed network, whcih is something they're probably not going to be able to just turn on with a software upgrade. :)
My guess has always been that Apple started designing the iPhone without knowing what carrier they were going to be successful at bending over negotiating with. If they'd put higher-speed data in it initially, that would have limited their choices, and they needed to be able to say they could just walk away. I have a suspicion that Apple at first figured they'd be ending up using T-Mobile; last year, the two companies were making vaguely friendly statements at one another, and T-Mobile has been explicitly pushing the EDGE and Wi-Fi combination on their smart phones. But T-Mobile is used to being able to get their way with everything, and Apple is used to being able to get *their* way with everything... and from all appearances it's pretty damn hard to beat Steve Jobs in a stare-down contest. Cingular, on the other hand, is desperate.
None of which means it doesn't kind of suck that they don't have the higher-speed network, whcih is something they're probably not going to be able to just turn on with a software upgrade. :)
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