Do not think that you are the only one who knows GPS, which i am sure that you have no idea about it.

I am from Egypt and i would like to let you know that GPS or GLOBAL POSITION SYSTEM whic i am sure you do not know that abbreviation is working by 24 Sattalites on 6 orbits submiting signals depending on time difference between transmiting and receiving by reciever on signal speed of 3X10 power of 8 Meters/sec.

Receiver should receive at least signal from 3 sattalites to start calculating positions measure time difference and make an interception between these signals to calculate the coordinates of a specific position.

GPS service is abseloutly free service controled by USA, GPS receivers is working on 2 bands the commercial band and military band thats used by USA government and Nato forces.

A highest grade of a GPS is the Differntial GPS wic depends on stations well knows its coordinates and sending corrections to units to avoid the,
The latest is 8 more corrections using differential methods such like internet corrections, inmarsat, Iala , XP, HP corrections.

I can not go more details than that becuase its useless for you.

Hatem.
Navigator.

GPS as some said is not an issue, same regarding the Apple store..etc
I’m with Bassel on this, i owned MS-OS devices for the past 4 years from I-mate to HTC and i always go beyond the “licensed ” software or whatever u want to name it.
a friend of mine who recently bought the IPhone used his GPS successfully & installed more applications then i can think off so i don’t think its a stumbling block

the question however is this, should you buy an I Phone with lack of some normal functions like “message forwarding ” ” copy & paste for text ” ” editing word or excel files ” a Camera with no software or any function whatsoever” ” no video calls over the 3G network or video recording ” ” Bluetooth is useless for any data transfer just work as a headset” ” no support for webpages with java or flash content ”
and last but not least no slot for any memory card ..
regarding the jailbreaking we seldom get a proper service in Egypt for things we buy over here (ask any Xbox owner ) we are screwed either way

that’s the I Phone problem, so I’ll just keep using the HTC for my business purpose & get the I Phone for Internet & entertainment purpose since i already use two mobile phones at the moment
P.S the new HTC HD will kick apple butt but as usual it will be very expensive considering the Iphone is offered cheap ATM from the network carriers *getting mine for 2800 LE *

i could be wrong though :D

I’m planning to buy the iphone, but that’s only because I’m trying to develop some apps/games for the istore.

as for the GPS, any discussion about infrastructure is bull, i travel a lot around Egypt and we use GPS most of the time, and yes authorities know about the “personal” GPS we carry, and have no problem with it, it’s all about bureaucracy, and it’s a shame it was disabled on iphone.

The other issue about istore, i think you could just change the country to UAE for example, to be able to use iTune.

I’m not an Aple fan boy, actually, i don’t own any Apple products so far, but planning to buy a Macbook, and an iphone as an investment.

My advice to any potential buyer, please don’t be a naive, wait for a while, there are few great upcoming devices, like the G1, and the nokia 5800 music xpress,with almost the same feature, like the touchscreen, so save you money, unless you really going to use the iphone available features.

newayz , wanted to point out that the prices for the mobinil Iphone are :
L.E 3500 for the 8 Gb
L.E 4200 for the 16 Gb

i guess 3.5K is not bad for the phone even with half it’s features

Jailbreaking the iPhone or the iPod touch is a mere child’s play. And if anything goes wrong you can simply restore back to the original setting via iTunes. Simle – eh!

However, jailbreaking also allows you to use your iPhone with other carriers. You are right that you can get 3rd party apps available and sold in the app store by jailbreaking, for free, which according to you is very legal. Jailbreaking is also like – you get an original Windows version which you can activate, but you prefer to use the activation crack!

Regarding the engadget and the gizmodo links, thanks mate… but if you have been reading them for a while, you will also learn that some of the iPhone features do not work with Jailbreaking. Just quit underestimating people, and the world will look brighter at your end!

And instead of calling people “the average mac fan” or the “faint hearted”… Go through the post again, and try to get the point.

I hope that in your following comments, you come up with something useful and informative.

Anyway, on a final note, your take on jailbreaking seemed so simple, yet it is rather simplistic; and it seems that you are the one who doesn’t get the point out of jailbreaking. Jailbreaking is taking place MAJORLY in the USA, where as you have kindly mentioned there is an official and fully functional iTunes+Appstore. Why? The main purpose of jailbreaking is allowing your phone to accept third-party software not already available in the appstore. Why isn’t this software available in the appstore? You can argue ‘apple cares for my safety’ all night long if you want, but take a look here for deeper insight, and maybe you might ‘enligten’ yourself as well: http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/25/engadget-cares-save-us-from-apples-groundbreaking-developer-s/. In a few words for those of us who prefer it this way, you get to install much much more apps than you normally would.
So, it doesn’t matter whether you’re in the USA, Egypt, or even JPierre land, availability of appstore or itunes is irrelevant to jailbreaking.

Oh, one more thing, since you’ve owned so many touch products before, there must have atleast been one or two Windows Mobile devices. And if you have never flashed your rom before, i’m sorry to tell you that at best you’ve been getting out of it a mere 50% of what it can give. You get access to much better software updates that were designed for your phone but not signed by microsoft, and you get access to much more functionality. Yeah, there’s a minor risk of bricking the device, but again, that is why I said it is not for the ‘average mac fan’, nor the ‘faint-hearted’. ;)

Try browsing engadget.com or gizmodo.com every once in a while, you’ll be amazed on how much it’ll keep you up-to-date with the tech sphere.
Fast changing world, eh?

Over and out!