The iPhone is a beautiful device – a work of art, really. It’s a marvel of industrial design. It’s apps are killer, the form factor is great, the screen and navigation dynamics are superb.

The on-screen keyboard probably costs AT&T and its customers a billion dollars in wrong numbers. It’s obvious (from above) it causes more than its fair share of typos. The screens crack if you’re not careful. I happily browse, message, and text with my Treo 650 on my bus ride home while iPhone users curse their dead batteries.

The iPhone is a cult icon and most of its users treat it as such. It should be renamed iMapompousSnob. People don’t own it to use it as much as to be SEEN using it. It’s the same reason they own a MacBook and drive a Prius.

When the Palm Pre comes out, a lot of people will likely be crying about the money they wasted to buy their iPhone and the money they spend each month on their AT&T data plan.

My Treo is a Toyota Camry to Apple’s Audi TT, but I pay only $5 a month for unlimited data, never run out of juice, and never type a wrong number. If I want to watch a movie, I’ll watch it at home on my plasma television. If I want to play a game…well, adults don’t waste their time with games.

So you endorse a trading ease for security? I am sure your exchange admin loves that attitude!

I started using handhelds since the HP48, and since then I have always looked for a combination of great hardware features, an open software development environment and a dedicated developer/user community. This is why I haved used Palm OS PDAs and later all GSM Treos up to date.

My Treo 680 is so tweaked that you can’t find any equivalent product out-of-the-box in the market today, feature-wise.

My Treo is all about accessibility, one handed navigation, functionality, versatility. Productivity.

I am fortunate to have the iphone 2G as well. It is physically fragile, prone to slide off your hand and gets scratched easily, and requires both hands to use. It’s the most impractical phone I know, even for sms. On the other hand it’s made for entertainment, namely Youtube and the wide screen iPod. Forget using the camera for sports or kids snaopshots, they will be blurred. It also has the best mobile browser in the industry, Safari – it just works, pans, zooms in and out, all very smoothly. It’s made to be on-line most of the time.

I will wait for the next Palm product, it’s been years that I am waiting for a Treo with VGA screen… Productivity and fun, all in one.