I don't know why everyone hates edge so much. Most of pensacola is pretty snappy on it, and I get near 200kbps much of the time. I have been places where it is slower than molasses on a steaming pan of dry ice, but thats only been in alabama so far :D.
As a matter of fact, I listened to last.fm using my iPhone much of the way from FL to Ohio this past week with very few buffering issues (though in driving around Ohio I could barely hold on to a signal or get reasonable speeds on the highways).
I do not think it is EDGE that is the problem as much as it is the area the iPhone is used in. How many towers are there? What is the quality of the signal? etc.
If this is the case then we do not need a 3G iPhone (though I welcome it, and 3G access in P'cola), as much as we need the infrastructure to be improved. I wonder what the overall experience with TMobile EDGE has been.

umm... I was being sarcastic. :D

Oh my! Asus is trying to make a profit. Shame on them!
We should boycott them.
I am tired of companies like Apple trying to cover their development cost and make a profit. After all, if I had their resources, I could build a better one for the same price as this rip off.

Did any of you even bother to research the creation of the iPhone before making accusations and rants?
Article: http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/16-02/ff_iphone?currentPage=1
The iPhone _was_ rushed out the door. After reading this, it becomes obvious that the features of the 1.1.3 firmware could not have been made available at launch much less a complete SDK. What you are asking from Apple is a miracle. Apple had to pull developers from Leopard to develop the iPhone just to meet the deadline and you say it could have had 3G on release? I am inclined to believe that yes, they did skip on 3G because of battery life and availability of the network. And why else? Because they had a deadline and EDGE was clearly the best option: most available and they did not have to spend time working on 3G and EDGE (@ Andrew's: its easy to make a switch") and then a switch for it. If anyone believes that it is "simple" and "easy" and "trivial" to add 3G to a phone, perhaps you never wrote a device driver or did any software development. You would have to create yet another driver that the developers probably did not have time for. Heck, even the wifi and modem was not perfect when released (both receiving updates - some major - after the fact). There are sacrifices that need to be made to push a product out the door.
And so what if Apple makes a huge profit from people upgrading to 2nd gen iPhones? Its their product; you buy or do not buy.
Angry that they milk you? Don't buy it! But most of all, get your facts in line before you start tearing up a company without knowing anything about the development process.

@Luis
I am not as foolish to think that we should be blindly celebrating the death of our enemies. Even Nazi Germany should be looked back on soberly as a reminder of judgement to us if we tried the same.

That said, the statement was written sarcastically. I don't agree with our foreign policy right now. The "police the world" mentality is rubbish and brings us enemies and never-ending series of wars. Wars against people who are fighting for their freedom as we fought for ours. And they may not understand that we want to "help" them. They may not see our aid. They see our presence as a military force and occupation. Not as big-brother knows best.
We can work on changing it, but for now, as far as protecting the citizens go (US citizens in my case), you use all available means to protect them. Even if it means the efficient, swift death of an aggressor. "Containment" and "non-lethal" ways of stopping an aggressor bent on revenge or hatred is not going to help.
"Peace on earth, good will toward men" did not stop hitler, or the Japanese in WW2. It made Neville look like a fool and Pearl Harbor like a conspiracy.

@Luis
I am not as foolish to think that we should be blindly celebrating the death of our enemies. Even Nazi Germany should be looked back on soberly as a reminder of judgement to us if we tried the same.

That said, the statement was written sarcastically. I don't agree with our foreign policy right now. The "police the world" mentality is rubbish and brings us enemies and never-ending series of wars. Wars against people who are fighting for their freedom as we fought for ours. And they may not understand that we want to "help" them. They may not see our aid. They see our presence as a military force and occupation. Not as big-brother knows best.
We can work on changing it, but for now, as far as protecting the citizens go (US citizens in my case), you use all available means to protect them. Even if it means the efficient, swift death of an aggressor. "Containment" and "non-lethal" ways of stopping an aggressor bent on revenge or hatred is not going to help.
"Peace on earth, good will toward men" did not stop hitler, or the Japanese in WW2. It made Neville look like a fool and Pearl Harbor like a conspiracy.

Not all of humanity . Just Americans getting those out to get us.
I welcome any advance in the US military's technology to get the enemy. Probably because I am American. :)

I live in FL, and the Edge speeds are pretty spiffy hear. Just recently, its even gotten a bit faster (starting to get close to 200k very often now). No, its not Wifi, but the pages load faster than my first gen DSL.

Maybe Apple is waiting to stabilize the API's?
From what I have read, nearly every whine about Apple locking down the system is really whining about Apple fixing security holes and making the internal *non-documented* API. Sure, sue them for that.
Stop making my iPhone better Apple! I liked it when it had bugs!

Daily Motion is available for the iPhone.