iphone

While I'm usually very critical (at least publicly) about anything Apple releases, some good may actually come of the iPhone.  It may just move the entrenched carriers enough in the US that the rest of the world gets good phones.  It seems like we've been trolling around with the same phones for a few years now, and that has mainly been because we use mostly the same handsets that are out in the US.  They have for many years been severely limited by the US carriers, who traditionally had complete control over their networks.  The iPhone changed the paradigm however, and now manufacturers and users get to chose what features they want.  This can only be good for Europe too.  A great article on Wired News sums it up very nicely from the American perspective.