Me and the iPhone

posted by: gwoo :: Jun 30th 2007, 21:02

After some deliberation, I spent 2 hours in line at a Cingular (new at&t) store on Lincoln Blvd in Venice (my hood in LA). By the time I made it to the front of the line, they were sold out. So, I placed an order for one anyway. I got back home had some dinner and did a few hours of work. No big loss, I figured I would get one in a week or so. Around 11pm, I decided to look online to see how many others had similar experiences. The first article I read talked about how in NY and SF there were no lines at the Apple Stores after about 7pm. Looks like all those people who waited overnight could have slept in the comforts of their own home and still easily gotten an iPhone. In any case, I realized the Apple Store on 3rd street promenade in Santa Monica would be open till midnight. I assumed that if NY and SF still had iPhones, then Santa Monica surely would. After the 15 minute drive, one minute of pointing at the box, and 5 minutes to swipe and sign, I walked out at 11:45pm with my iPhone.

The iPhone is worth every penny, minute, and hassle spent acquiring it. I feel sorry for my iPod, which will not travel with me anymore. I dont feel sorry at all for my old phone. It was a sad excuse for a fine piece of hardware. The iPhone syncs perfectly with all my data, surfs and downloads email fast enough, blows me away with the Google Maps, and every interface is so friendly I smile every time I need to access something. The one thing I wished it did better was sync with the read and unread messages of my POP email. Since, it only syncs the accounts if you use POP then you end up with duplicate data. I don't know many programmers who like duplicate data, and I certainly do not, so I changed over all my important email accounts to IMAP, spent 2 hours deleting spam build up and ended up with perfectly synced mail across my laptop and iPhone.

For those of you not in the United States, I'm sorry you cannot share in the ease that Apple brought to smart phone. For those of you who know, me you know I normally do not go overboard professing the joy for one thing or another. And while I use all of Apple products, I would not even consider myself that much of a fanboy. Well, I will admit I am now a full on fanboy of the iPhone.



//Posted from my iPhone (only took me 40 minutes to type all this with the onscreen keyboard)

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