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The iPhone is first and foremost a mobile telephone. You can punch in your favorite phone numbers with the on-screen QWERTY key pad, but it's easier just to sync it up with the address book function on your PC. It supports Outlook, Outlook Express, Apple's Address Book, Windows Live Mail, and Yahoo.
At the moment, you can sign up with any US mobile phone carrier you like, as long as it's AT&T. The entry level deal is a two-year contract with 450 prime minutes (5000 minutes on nights and weekends) for $59 a month (plus all the usual incomprehensible state and federal taxes and phony surcharges). AT&T is not Computer Buzz's favorite phone service, but so far our test phone's service in the Dallas area has been excellent.
Computer Buzz laments the iPhone's lack of voice dialing; that shortcoming will undoubtedly be corrected in the future. The speaker phone function is not very loud; you can barely hear it in busy office or a moving automobile.
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