A friend of mine has an iPhone and he's a self-confessed Apple fanboi (so much so he's on first name terms with the workers in the NYC Apple store and has pretty much one of everything that Apple sell!)

So you can imagine how surprised I was to find he's slamming his iPhone... call quality is crap (audio has a distinctive echo, something to do with the earpiece being too close to the microphone), the battery lasts less than a day, it has no Bluetooth stereo support (just microphone) and it won't even sync over Bluetooth. Maybe the Bluetooth omissions can be corrected in later software updates, but the current iPhone has left him pining for his old Treo.

Something tells me that the hype is now beginning to die down, and people are seeing the iPhone for what it is - a pretty poor mobile/cellular phone with iPod functionality and a 2-year lock-in but a great UI. However the great UI can't make up for lousy call quality or a battery that doesn't see you through a full day without a charge.

The iPhone is certainly not anything to worry the likes of Nokia/SonyEricsson/Samsung, and certainly not good enough to succeed in Europe without a major specification overhaul.