iphoned

done. got it. no more stress, no more speculation, i can finally just mess with the one in my pocket. first impressions:

the interface is insane, makes every other mobile device look and feel like a cruel joke.

i'm already typing fairly fast with my thumbs, maybe a little faster than i could on the numeric keyboard of my old phone.

call quality is fine, not amazing but not horrible (even with a mumbling skyper from aotearoa).

it's so sleek, feels like there is nothing in my pocket.

the camera is nice, as long as there's *lots* of light and *nothing* is moving.

music and movies are great, it's a freaking ipod after all.

the headphone jack sucks. it's so recessed in the case i can't fit my nice etymotic research headphone plug in there. it totally has to be a skinny, in-line plug, a la:


overall, it's an amazing device. the shortcomings are easily forgotten when you start browsing around the phone and seamlessly send an email with a picture you just took attached while listening to music that fades out so you can take a call and then keep talking while you look up directions to the restaurant on google maps.

anyway, probably plenty more about this thing will be found among the hallowed halls of this needless weblog. speaking of weblogs, let us now observe a moment of silence for the weblog generated with my previous cellphone, may it rest in peace...