Pablo Gonzalez, a Prada shoe-wearing cell phone connoisseur who jumps from one new handset to the next, is ready to ditch his $1,000 touch-screen cell phone for Apple's iPhone when it becomes available in June
Tark Abed, on the other hand, just got the new Samsung BlackJack smart phone a month ago. The industrial designer at Palo Alto-based Speck Design isn't keen on spending $500 even though he finds the iPhone's sleek interface alluring and innovative.
I upgraded to an unlimited data plan and got the BlackJack for $149," he said, "and that's a lot of phone already for $149."
Their divergent views underscore why Apple Inc.'s much-hyped cell phone is all the rage and why, also, at the same time, incumbent rivals are stirred up about the future competition.
The iPhone got everybody -- from techie bloggers to late-night TV hosts -- talking when it arrived fashionably late on the wireless communications scene. Would-be rivals are welcoming the challenge but questioning Apple's claim that the iPhone is "revolutionary."
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