Applause because the iPhone went from being the best mobile phone despite lacking major features, to the best mobile phone which lacks no major features.
I live in "Europe" and I've never seen anyone watch TV on their phone before, despite it being free with most contracts. Also, no phone has a decent camera; even the Sony C905 (which is probably the best camera phone available in Europe) is mediocre as a camera, providing very noisy 8MP JPGs with horrible colors.
In a few years, a company is going to release a CCD that can shoot high-quality 720p video and decent-quality images and is small enough to fit in a phone. When this happens, I guarantee you that the iPhone will have it just like all other cameraphones.
I saw a guy a few weeks ago on an evening train in Tokyo watching a ballgame split-screen with his email app, where he was writing a reply. He sent the mail, and then the TV app went back to full-screen. I don't watch TV, but that was just amazingly cool.
A year ago or so at a mid-scale sushi restaurant some guys sitting nearby were watching the ballgame on their phone, though thankfully they had the sound off.
N95 has TV in some countries. The phones look like ordinary N95s. So do lots of Telstra phones in Australia (which have Foxtel content) and KDDI phones in Japan. They just look like ordinary phones.
And the ability to use a phone outside the country your purchased it in. Hey Apple, early adopters travel! Stop raping your customers with stupid activation procedures!
(I purchased an AT&T iPhone, using it with an Apple agreed carrier in the UK, the phone won't activate anyway)
