My cousin Al's theory on the iPhone .....

Ok, I cannot say so far my iPhone and I have "bonded" I still cannot let go of my blackberry (THANK GOD I did not switch my #) -- Yes, I had to drink the kool-aid and get the newest, latest greatest gadget. So far, the touch screen is not doing it for me. Forget about drunk dialing on this puppy.

My cousin Al is the ultimate teckkie (he runs IT Dept for a major University and in his spare time he writes extra point questions for the Mensa folks) ....I aspire to be one tenth as smart as he is about the computer world one day! What I find amazing is how smart he truly is and they put ME in Forbes as "Queen of the Internet" --- that seals the theory sex sells!

Ok, back to cuz....here is what he sent my brother and I today. Keep in mind, the three of us are the computer self-appointed consumer reports "in the know" of the tech world.

No replaceable battery? That totally sucks.

“Unfortunately, the Phone does not have a battery that a user can replace. That means you have to send the iPhone to Apple to replace the battery after it's spent (Apple is estimating one battery will last for 400 charges -- probably about two years' worth of use). No, you don't really need a removable battery in a cell phone, but like many things missing on the iPhone, it would be nice to have, especially for such an expensive phone.” ------ I definitely can’t use one because of this-

• that there's no voice dialing -- Haha! Blackberry does this.

• “We just don't understand, however, why Apple doesn't include multimedia messaging.” – Nor do I! Blackberry does.

• “Worse: you can't cut and paste text when composing messages.” ----- That puts it in the amateur category if you ask me.

So far, I am leaning to the left on the Apple -- as my bonus son Daniel says "it will be the coolest iPod made but I would not hold it out as the greatest phone"

Alas, they are both right!