Just my opinion and as much as I hate to say it, iPhone 4 is better. I'm pretty much a die hard SE fan but the X10 is quite a disappointment for me. No multi touch support, laggy interface, 65k colours only. The only thing I like about it is the huge screen.

What social status? I didn't know that owning an iphone gave you some kind of special status in society. In fact, I actively choose not to buy an iphone. Gosh, am I losing out on some kind of special status here? Please enlighten me.

Going back to TS's topic, iphone4 is easily the better phone overall, I believe. Yes, x10 might have some advantage in some areas, but overall there really is not question that iphone4 is the better phone.

So what you are saying is, having attention = having higher social status?  You, my boy, are an idiot.

The "600-1000" that you are "wasting" goes to the very good user experience that you get with the phone. The IP4 is far from being the perfect phone, and yes, I have seen an Iphone freeze, but overall it's a phone that just works, and works beautifully it does too, with minimal fuss. Also, the appstore is what it is. More choice always > no choice - fact.

And that is why people should be buying an Iphone for. Not for the perceived "social status" that it brings.

So even assuming that you are right in the sense that an Iphone4 generates attention, which I seriously doubt by the way, attention does not = social status. Let that be your lesson for today.

Anyway, to me, there's no comparisson. Iphone4 is the phone with the better user experience overall, compared to the x10. That's all there is to it.