I'm not saying it's not usable. The pivotal point here is the price of the phone. If you only need your phone to make calls and send SMS, you won't be shedding 1000+ Fr. for a handset, would you?

The iPhone is a smartphone. A smartphone is expected to do e-mail and it sure as heck is expected to have basic functionality like MMS. Also, all other competitors offering phones in that price-range include UMTS.

The whole thing is just kinda schizo, if you ask me. The phone is advertised as being fully internet ready, yet it lacks a useful keyboard, fast data capability, flash and JAVA. The lack of Flash and JAVA will prevent the browser from correctly displaying 30%+ of the more popular websites.

I've been using Apple products for years, have two Macs at home and one at work, have two iPods and two Airport Express base-stations. So I'm definitely not dissing Apple here. I just think that the iPhone isn't living up to the hype and it probably isn't suited very well for the European market.