Flutterby™! : Cingular drains Apple's brand

Yesterday Apple announced a new phone. So far it's vaporware, so I'll leave the pros and cons to other people, although the trademark dispute has been amusing. But the thing I wanted to comment on is that you can only get it through Cingular, which sucks. We have coverage from them because they were the only people with a tower anywhere near our house. However, over the year and change we've had these phones the coverage has gotten more spotty, not just here, but everywhere else. There are huge dead zones around San Anselmo, and the dropped calls have made this something we can only use when the car is stationary.

Had we known how bad this was going to get, we would have just stuck with our Sprint plan, which was cheaper and had fewer dropouts. So no matter what the feature set there'll be no "iPhone" in my future.