first of all, other's people opinions should only be used as a guidelines and not to influence your decision. To Some people iphone sucks .. and to some it's a wonderful phone ...

yes it's true that Iphone cannot beat the functionality and user friendly of nokia phone but every new thing will need some time to adjust to it.
People say that SE phone are much more user friendly than nokia, to me it is not because i'm too used to nokia.

talking about iphone, it takes some times to get use to it .. for me .. it took about a week to get use to it, because the whole screen in touch sensitive, we always miss pressed the buttons. so it might be an issue to some1 might not be to another ...

as for typing sms with the QWERTY keyboard, it's fast when you have access to two hands... but if u r trying to sms during Driving . That is almost impossible but you shouldn't be sms-ing while driving anyway ..

as to transfer contact from old SIM card to Iphone ..... to some it's hard because they have to install third party softwware like simport, and it's not as straight fwd as nokia/se phones where u can change contactlist memory.

bear in mind that you only do this once when you get your iphone.. after that all your contact will be updated in your iphone and any new numbers can be synchronize with itunes/outlook/ etc...

custom ringtones , again not as straight fwd as assigning mp3 to ringtones. Couple of ways to do this , by converting to m4r / or again using 3rd party software to convert from the phone ..

so alot of features are not included in the iphone but thanks to some individuals , they have created 3rd party software to make up for that losses ..

in the end, it's up to you to adapt to the iphone advantage and disadvantages.

usually ppl that say ... "iphone sucks .. they don't have this and that ..." are those people that don't own an iphone or probably just play with it for 5mins ...and already made up their mind

u r in an iphone subforum.. obviously it will be more positive than negative.. maybe u get different reaction by posting in the Handphone section where nokia/se/WMobile PDA phone hardcore fans might have different opinion