So I contained myself all day on friday and didn’t wait in line for an iphone. At about 6:45 I decided that I’d go check out the closest AT&T store to see if I could get one. I walked in and out in about 10 minutes with a 4GB model for the sane? price of 500$ US. I went home, activated the thing, waited, waited and waited some more. After about 2 hours I called support, “i can has iphone?” and they replied “you can has iphone in 6 hours!” So I waited 6 hours, only able to slide the little touchscreen over to pretend like I really needed to make that emergency call. After the 6 hours past I thought “fuck this” and went to sleep. Needless to say I refreshed my email entirely too often for a while and my iphone(which was purchased on a friday) didn’t work until Sunday morning. Two days without a phone is kinda creepy in this day and age, especially when it has all sorts of nice features you wanna fuck with. :)
All that other bullshit aside, it’s fabulous. Everyone who takes my phone from me can figure it out. I’m delighted by the intuitive UI and the integration with my mac. The keyboard took me a little bit of getting used to(I came from a blackberry), but that’s the only thing I’ve remotely struggled with. Well done apple! I don’t feel like it was a waste of money, I’m delighted with my purchase but I only wish it would’ve started working sooner.