On Sep 8, 2005, at 11:28 AM, Matt Gregory wrote: > > My thoughts are that Apple doesn't appreciate how much US consumers > > like flip-phones. > I agree with this to a certain extent. I hope Motorola did most, > if not all, of the product design on this phone, with Apple just > picking up the iTunes software for it. It would disappoint me if > Apple designed this thing. But I do agree that it should have been > a flip-phone. I was moderately interested in it, but as soon as I > saw it wasn't a flip all interest went out the window. I'm in complete agreement with that sentiment... although I tend to prefer separate devices for phone, music, pda, etc. as a small adjunct to my main iPod, this would have been pretty cool - but, for me, only in the flip-phone format (and ideally with bluetooth headphones!) Scott