
Cheapest Way to get iPhone 3G?
as for the initial question; the cheapest way. I was about 70 ppl back in the queue at the melb collins street store. One of the first people to make the purchase was some young 20 something. HE took it out of the box and flaunted it to everyone in the line making smart @ss comments.
Decking him would have been the cheapest way to own one.

whats wrong with the camera on the iphone?
the image quality is actually pretty good. Obviously MP on a camera does not mean that picture quality is going to be better worse. Anyway for a mobile phone the camera is actually very responsive.
As for mms it is a bit of a bummer but an app should be released for this soon.
I am a person who changes mobiles like my underwear and have never found a mobile phone that has everything. To this day i can still say i have never had a mobile phone that has "everything" but the iphone3g is a good device.
In regards to the price i think it is very reasonable. I am on a $59 cap plan and pay and extra $2 a month as i opted for the 8GB model. This will give me $350 worth of calls/sms and 500MB of data. Since Friday I have been in lorne and used internet quite often... again I have not racked up more than 20MB of data considering i should aim for approx under 15MB a day.
I think outright the iphone is much cheaper than alot of mobile phones on opening day.
Anyway I am a few days in and still learning about this bad boy... so far so good.
the main downside I have encountered is it is slightly laggy when opening an app such as SMS or email.

Wouldn't get a HTC touch, we have 3 here at work and i'm not a fan. No wireless is just silly for a phone like that. Other HTC phones have been fine
Not looking towards a blackberry, a personal preference thing, but the HTC Diamond or Touch Pro (Diamond with full slide out keyboard) seem to be the way to go
But that's all beside the point as he seems to want an iPhone

So you pay a premium for the Apple name, and a sub-par phone that has a bad camera and can't send MMS? I don't see what all the hype is about, i'd rather get the HTC Diamond that runs Windows Mobile and has all of the MSN messaging stuff built-in
