I got an iPhone

I just have to say, really, Apple does a nice job. More about the phone later, but I waited in line for a Wii, and that was nice, but it doesn’t even compare to this. Through the whole thing (3ish hours) Apple employees walked the line answering people’s questions, passing out free bottled water and coffee. At one point they started passing out cards that reserved an iPhone for you, cute black little cards shaped exactly like an iPhone! Little things like this really matter, watching the crowd react to something as simple as this was really interesting. One woman took a picture of the card, I overheard another say, “I love Apple, I really do. They are a great company”, she was also one of the most vocal pro-apple people in line explaining to some other people about dual-boot and doing a first-rate job converting the unwashed :) Anyway, the line was flawless. I’ll post more in a couple days about what I think of the phone.

First impressions though. The processor/software is very fast, makes edge seem ok in my opinion. The thing gets some fingerprints! The keyboard is really more a matter of accepting your mistakes I think. The error correction is very very good, which basically makes up for the fact that about 1/3 of your keystrokes are errors. You can 2-thumb it as fast as index finger in my opinion, but it requires looking. I’ll probably get better at it, but it’s not terrible. I really need better gmail support. I want threading etc, I only want to see what’s in my gmail inbox, not 1000 mailing list emails that gmail filters out in the normal interface, and in the java phone app… I’m also very sad to see that the calendar app doesn’t look at ical feeds online, but relies on a sync to your computer. For now I’ll have to use gmail’s crappy mobile page. I honestly blame google for this more than apple. Gmail needs IMAP support, so I can see the tags as IMAP folders.