and neither do i consider it. but i keep seeing people that import it, jailbreaked, as it cant be legally bought in norway. and people praise the browser as if its the first time one could get a product that does real web on the pocket. its as if the nokia devices never existed.

and if you talk the iphone down and/or bring the N8x0 into the conversation you get stuff like "oh but the N8x0 isnt a phone", "it does not have multi-touch", "but its a real smartphone, ones jailbreaked one can install all kinds of app on it" and so on...

apple have grabbed a mindshare like nothing else. people that never considered a N800 or a WM/symbian smartphone is all over the iphone.

and as i think about it, one reason could be that it integrates with the existing apple ecosystem. as in, its a ipod (full sync with itunes), its a phone and you can browse the web on it (facebook, myspace, the whole social networking thing).

while both android and maemo may be more flexible and all that, apple got the mindshare outside of the geek sphere. hell, just today im reading about something as "silly" as a virtual piano on the iphone. there has been a explosion of development for it, and thats even before one can officially install third party stuff on it.