And that odd thing is this: I'm now an iPhone owner. As of yesterday, I had no plans to be anywhere near an Apple or AT&T store today. But that all changed when Macworld asked me to stand in line, buy a phone, and then mail to the corporate office--they wanted to make sure they had several phones in hand for review next week.
I detailed my camp-out experiences in this blog entry on macworld.com, along with this afternoon update.
Shortly after that last update was published is when my day got really surprising: Macworld asked me to buy two phones, but just send one in their direction--I was to keep one and use it myself, replacing my Treo. Wow. I was quite surprised, to say the least. You see, I didn't even really want a first-generation iPhone; it's missing many things that I'm used to on the Treo. But I guess now I get to see if that's really true, and to write about just how well, or not well, the iPhone works for me. As I have time with the iPhone, my write ups--covering the good and bad of the experience--will appear on Macworld's new iPhone Central pages (and probably on macworld.com, too).
The iPhone is now activated, and it's busy synching all my content. I'll post links here to anything that winds up on Macworld, in case you're contemplating an iPhone of your own.
I read your MacWorld stories. Keep em coming.
I'm going to wait for the next rev before I consider purchasing one. Just too costly for me. Besides, I sit in front of computers for 12–16 hours a day, 6 days a week. Not much need to have my email and web-browsing for the remaining hours in my day.
Exactly what I was planning on doing, too -- until they told me to buy one :). Twist my arm, OK, I'll do it. I think they're expecting I may become the resident iPhone curmudgeon (which may happen; the lack of true iChat support is already boiling my blood...)
-rob.
It's truly a challenging life you lead, Rob.
I was gonna try to talk my employer into getting me an iPhone so I could hold off my personal purchase until the second gen. Then I remembered I'm self-employed and my boss is a cheapskate and an ass.
So I guess I'm stuck with an old RAZR for a while yet.
I'm sticking with my Sprint KATANA for now. I have no need for iTunes on my phone - for podcasts I use either my MP3 stereo in the car, or my Palm Tungsten E. The KATANA will do the remainder of what I need - GPS, Google Maps, email, etc.
Oh and this site's captcha is a REAL pain - it keeps telling me I didn' pthe right words despite the fact I know I did.
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