Now that everything is official, it's time to look at what Apple has done. iPhone fans may disagree with the points below but they are made from the out-of-box perspective without warranty-voiding jailbreaking and 3rd party apps.
3G: A welcome addition, but still without a tethering option. 3G is nice on a phone but truly shines when it can be shared with a laptop.
Application Store: Okay Apple. You've made a token effort to get 3rd party applications into the iPhone but why stifle innovation by making them ONLY available through your store? Why are you taking 30% off the top for every sale in that store?
Price drop: This is one of the best things you've done with the iPhone. A $199 device is very compelling. At that price, the iPhone looks like a good secondary device as opposed to the normal gauntlet of an iPod touch, an N810, and an N95-3. Sometimes it'd be nice to just carry one device. However, Matthew Miller of The Mobile Gadgeteer points out that the iPhone with the matching AT&T data plan actually costs $40 more than the previous iPhone over the course of the contract.
GPS: It's nice to have location based services, but don't think you invented it. The N810 comes with a mapping application and has an upgrade option for turn-by-turn voice navigation. Why doesn't the iPhone have that upgrade option?
Enterprise support: Good work. There's nothing bad that can be said about this new feature - unless it bombs fantastically when put into real use.
Browsing: Still that same 480x320, 160 pixels per inch (compared to the N810's 800x480, 225 ppi) display. Still no Flash in the browser. While multi-touch zooming helps make up for this, constant scrolling is no solution for full page reading. Keep trying.
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