For those of you packing your sleeping bags and camping stoves to spend the next few nights outside your Apple shrine in preparation to layout a significant wedge for the iPhone the Financial Times here in UK has a great article on the phone’s fundamental flaw.

It is an organiser, a music player, a photo viewer and a phone all of which it does with the aplomb and svelte asceticism we’ve come to know and love from Apple, but…there’s always a but…the networking connectivity is awful, you can’t get near-broadband speed content unless you’re near a wifi spot as there’s no 3g or GPRSD connectivity bundled in with your (extortionate !) contract. So to get your music purchased through the iTunes store you’re going to have to be at home with the iPhone plugged into or wifi’d to your router or paying another fee to connect via a commercial hotspot.

We’re still a long long way from ‘setting the web free’ as I saw on TV last night…sigh !