Yup…I did it, I broke down and got a new iPhone. While I’m very excited about it, I’m hoping it is all it’s cracked up to be. Yes…this was my first trip to the local Apple store, and yes my friends made fun of me for it.
Overall I’ve been pretty impressed with this little guy. The first thing that I noticed that I really enjoyed was the interface. So many of the small little touches really make it super easy to use. As I’ve started giving more thought to usability in everything I do, I realize that Apple is by far one of the best in the business. They’ve got some amazingly talented UI guys. I’ve only hit one point where I’ve thought to myself, there’s gotta be an easier way to do this - that was when I was going to dial a person in my contact list. Currently there’s no easy way to do a search for a contact, you have to manually scroll to a name and click it. I may be missing something here, but my old Treo was pretty simple when it came to that.
I’m looking forward to playing with it some more over the next couple of weeks, and I’m really interested to see what happens when we’re able to install third party apps. My biggest wish is SyncML capability with push PIM & E-mail functionality. I’ve successfully been able to setup my own Funambol server, and sync my contacts that way (yes - a quick jailbreak allowed me to install the Funambol iPhone client, but it’s not nearly as robust as the Treo Funambol client that I was using before). I think it’s a result of the underlying syncevolution package - but I’m sure there will be plenty of solutions when we’ve got access to install our own applications.
I will certainly be sure to post follow-ups on my progress with the phone as well as any compliments or issues I come across.
Nice job Apple - so far, your phone is pretty sweet!
P.S. - After jailbreaking my phone to see what it was all about, I got to play with some of the inners of the phone. I found it pretty cool that I could SSH into my phone and work my way around. For those that haven’t tried it, and have that little geek in them - JUST DO IT, you can always restore back! 
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