Counterfeit Girl Scout Cookies

According to Wikipedia, Mob Wars is a role-playing Facebook application which allows players to engage in Mafia style wars with each other and which has become the most lucrative application on Facebook and the first to net $1m per month in revenue.

-iCal to do list application & syncing
-Can't play music through iTunes when iPhone is connected
-Can't use iPhone as a harddrive without being a l33t hax0r
-How bout some neat use of the accelerometer? Example: Answer a call by cocking the phone like a shotgun
-Wii-like vibration takes place on successful keystrokes

So I am on a mission to get an iPhone. Today a charming woman from Woodland Hills names Denise came and took my Xbox 360 off my hands and laid a sweet $300 on me. Currently I have a T-Mobile SideKick 3, which has served me well, that I need to unload. Currently on the Communist Swap Area Forums SideKick 3's are moving for around $200 in good condition.

$300 (Xbox 360) + $200 (SideKick 3) = iPhone.

I am currently a SideKick 3 user and have been using the Danger devices since the Sidekick 2 came out a few years back. Compared to the iPhone, the Sidekick is a huge mass of phone, its' the web browser, camera features, and cell phone reception pale in comparison to the Apple device. There is one feature that the Sidekick has that really sets it apart in a good way from the iPhone, the keyboard. The SideKick has what I consider to be on of the best mobile phone keypads on the market. I am able to draft quite extensive emails and blog updates on the trusty little device with little effort.

The device that has only been on the shelves since June 29th, is positioned to become the pillar of the next generation of cell phone UI. Apparently the experts are having a bit of a speculative disagreement on the future of Apples freshly release iPhone.

Here is an little flavor from the Yahoo Biz Article:

...but do we really need legislation limiting Apple's ISP/Service choices for the iPhone? Timothy Karrat the Huffington blog reports that Members of Congress demanded iPhone Freedom" at today's House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet's hearings. According to Karrat, the legislators criticised AT&T and Verizon and want a "more open wireless system where new innovations aren't held hostage to the competition-killing carriers "that control the network."

That was quick - Live Leak posted a video of fake iPhones "flooding the market" in China. Last April, BoredStop.com reported that the Chinese counterfeit iPhones were out months ahead of the product. And now, PC Magazine reports on ways to after-market other brands to emulate iPhone Features.

Can you believe the date on this post? June 29th? Is this the same hack discussed in IRC?

Jon Lech Johansen writes on his blog, So Sue Me, that he has "found a way to activate a brand new unactivated iPhone without giving any of your money or personal information to AT&T NSA. The iPhone does not have phone capability, but the iPod and WiFi work. Stay tuned!" So I guess if you don't want to use the phone features you could use this technique and earn yourself a really expensive iPod, wi-fi Internet device.

Slashdot asks, "Will You Change Your Web Site For the iPhone? Did the Sun ask permission of Icarus to melt his wings?
Is Counterfeit Girl Scout Cookies the new Betamax?