Thanks guzz46
'Ok i carry a spare battery with me so if i'm away from a power point for a number of days or if i head out for a mountain bike ride and my battery runs out i can swap them out.'
I think this is resolved by the IPhone - it can last for 300 hours on Standby (over 12 days). Also, if you're carrying around a spare battery, you could just as easily carry a charger for the IPhone (with inbuilt battery). Both require you to purchase additional hardware so I guess it's the same.
'I am on prepaid and use a java app that allows me to send text messages for 2 cents each, plus having the option to install any other java app is useful.'
Ah OK, see, I don't send text messages any more. I think if I did send text messages, I'd use TextPlus, an Iphone app which lets you send text messages for free. I guess that's my point really, any apps which you may have which are java, most likely have an equivalent in the App Store.
'An FM transmitter is handy if you want to play your music collection (stored on your phone) on a home or car stereo and you don't have your cable on you or if your car stereo doesn't have AUX inputs. Plus if your mates are driving behind you they should be able to tune in and listen also.'
OK, thanks for this. I think that I don't need to do that. I know there are apps which let you synchronise music onto networks etc so I could do it like that, or I could buy an FM transmitter for $10. I usually have the cables handy anyway, or a cradle in the car/home - but thanks, I've never used an FM transmitter.
'Flash is all over the web and some websites don't work if you don't have flash enabled'
Yeah, true, but a lot of the major ones such as Youtube have apps, or mobile versions which don't use flash. It's fair to say that there will always be some which use flash though, and it's fair to say that's a disadvantage of the IPhone. I had flash support on my old phone and it just took forever to load and then didn't behave as it would on a normal PC, so I think that's a compromise I'm willing to make.
Thanks for all your points though - very interesting