I just had to have the lastest so I paid a kid to stand in line and get me one at 6:15 pm Friday. Been dying all weekend to put it to the Monday test and use it in my work.

So far it has been a blast. Look forward to a call coming in as well as one I can make. Seems to work flawlessly with my bluetooth sunglasses.

Outlook 2007 sync’ed over my 1009 contacts and all my calendar items without a hitch.

I love the instant traffic updates on the Google Maps. One of it’s slickest features and very speedy even on Edge.

One didy I really enjoy is calling GOOG-411 and finding where I want to go via the phone. At the point where they say, “Do you want me to dial it now?” I respond with “Map It!” and then hang up. Within 10 seconds I receive a text message on the iPhone that has a link to my location in Google Maps. I touch that link and it opens the iPhone browser with a stick pin right where I am going.

I keep finding little gems like this with work use that make me so happy I dumped out of my Nextel Blackberry.

So far, I am having as much fun as the day I got my first Tablet PC. I miss those exciting exploring adventure days.

It won’t be a “second gen device” that gets you into Exchange, Vistio has already announced they will deliver Exchange and Notes in the 3Q 2007.

Most of the hater blogs I’ve read this past weekend haven’t made one very serious transition: Windows Mobile requires you to buy the “next gen device” to get an upgrade. Apple has a consistent history of releasing software upgrades with new features on a regular basis. That list of “it doesn’t do this” or “it doesn’t do that” will be shorter in the next few months, and I won’t have to buy a new iPhone, unlike the Windows Mobile platform.

Also, I’ve already got secure corporate email/todo/meetings on my iPhone. Lotus Notes supports a secure web email server and the iPhone works very well with it. So in addition to getting all of my personal emails plugged in this weekend, I now have access to my corporate email as well.

Color me one very happy camper.

“it’s truly a consumer device”

Glad to see my six months of repeating that mantra has finally paid off. :)

All this talk about a great iphone- but in reality the new blackberry 8800 series with T-Mobile is cool and I really like their plans. For example I purchase the 5000 min plan with free nights and weekends for 129.00 a month and blackberry data package for 20.00. Dude this is way better than ATT high packages.

Blackberry rocks- and to set the record straight I’m a mac and pc guy!

Well too bad. Iphone is such a fun device. You don’t just buy Iphone for serious work; you buy it for fun right? What about your Mac?

I’m with you Kevin, great piece.

@fog city dave: don’t feel like reading this blog anymore? that’s your choice. don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

I came close to giving in and buying one. But for me it came down to many things.

1.) No phone as modem. Big issue for me.
2.) Can’t install anything. There’s so much this phone * doesn’t * do that this is really a necessity.
3.) Keyboard situation. I type a lot.
4.) No GPS support.
5.) No Exchange. I mean real Exchange. IMAP is a joke.

But it is pretty. Just not practical for professional use. Windows Mobile does it all and more and has since 2002.

Kevin,

I’m amazed you haven’t been hit too hard by the apple fanboy response to this post that much!

I was expecting this post to have 250 comments all yelling out “how can u not love teh iPhone its perfect you r dum this blog sux bye”

I’ve been carrying two phones for almost a year so I’m already OK with that. As I’ve just returned my Treo 700p to my former employer, the N95 will provide my business line and tethering and the iPhone will be my internet, e-mail, media device. I know I’m in a really unusual place having two of the coolest phones available in the high-end media segment. Lucky me.

My lack of impulse control can be blamed in large measure on my accountant assuring me that the iPhone is a legitimate business deduction in my consulting and blogging work. I can afford it, and so decided to ignore all of my own considered opinions about how the first-generation was flawed (no user swappable battery or memory and a lock to a provider I had no existing business with).

I have to tell you it is an amazing device and absolutely raises the bar for mobile devices from the UI experience and sheer sexiness perspectives. I don’t have any pangs of remorse (yet). I’m off to San Jose this afternoon for a quick trip and we’ll see how the iPhone does as a traveling companion on the plane and on the go.

I tend to agree with you that the device is more of a consumer play than a business solution. But my lines are pretty blurred and I can envision a day where a future version of the iPhone could be the only converged mobile device I take with me.