[nostatic]

Picked up an iPhone yesterday. Been playing with it for a day now. All I can say is "wow." No, it is not perfect. There are a few niggles with the function (although Wayne's issue of no repeated vm reminders isn't one of them). For instance there is no bulk delete for email (ie you can't check a whole bunch and hit delete) and with pop accounts as you delete emails it keeps downloading more (to have the 25 or 50 or 100 last emails, which you can set). Also missing some settings I'd like to change with email, but every device and OS I've used has some issues.

But the rest of it? Just stunning. You have to see the screen in person to believe it. Blows every other device out of the water. My 8525 screen looks like a 10 year old tv screen. Seriously, the iPhone screen is that good. Photos are just gorgeous, and google maps works seamlessly.

I am an existing ATT customer, and during the activation it swapped over the number of my choice without incident. I was able to sync all my contacts and events from my Mac (which came off my smartphone via Markspace sync). The visual vm is great...you don't have to listen to every message, as it shows who called (assuming that the number isn't blocked).

The keyboard takes some getting used to, but is actually quite smart in its predictive text...it is based on keyboard position rather than similarity to a real word (if that makes sense). Very clever. I wish it would rotate to landscape in apps other than just Safari, but that'll be a software fix.

v2 will be just sick. As it is, this is a home run right out of the gate. The apple store was mobbed today. The palm store a few doors down *completely* empty except for 2 employees. I'm actually pondering making this thing my main phone as well as data device. Have to get more hours on it and find a case I like. That's saying a lot because I like my 3125 running WM5 (smartphone). That was my previous best mobile OS...but the iphone is a totally different league.