I just can't say enough about how amazing the iPhone is. A product that is thinner than my old phone, has better battery life, an incredible keyboard, a built in iPod, web browser, email, etc etc, pretty phenomenal. Life changing. This is one of the most polished products I have ever used. Definitely the most polished 1.0 product in the history of technology. All these little touches that make it great.

So I was on the bus to Boston this past weekend watching Braveheart. A call came in so my movie stopped and it switched to the phone screen. I hit decline and it immediately went back to the movie, perfectly, nice zooming animations and all. Thirty seconds later I got the voicemail notification. I hit the home button, listened to my voicemail (which takes 2 seconds + length of message thanks to visual VM!!!!), checked my email, sent a text message, then went back to the movie where I left off. Total time: 30 seconds. Flawless execution. It's not a device that just does these things I need, but a device that is enjoyable to use!

Anyway, small thing which is truly amazing: the headphones. Regular iPod headphones so I actually use my iPhone as an iPod everywhere I go, all the time. And the tiny remote/mic on the headphones so I can play/pause and skip songs. So brilliant.

From the day the iPhone came out Swami has been IMing me about it non stop. He wanted one but couldn't justify it. Understandable. Then he "lost" his phone and needed a new one, so I used my discount and bought him one. He's so happy with it. Some comments:


dude
sticky
yo
you have officially changed my life
this thing is fucking amazing
its like getting internet for the first time
i will have a check in the mail for you shortly...as soon as i find my fucking check book
happiest check i will ever write
this thing is fucking amazing dude
i hacked it so that i could make my ring tone into tupac
it came in saturday and i didnt eat and spent 5 6 hrs fuckin with it
it totally bailed us out of traffic issues today
its the bomb
best decision yet
you are right man
the shit it do, it do well
this shit is fucking amazing
life altering
and edge is faster than i thought it'd be
surprisingly
even youtiube can stream on edge
its sweet
i love it
great work man
u tell that steve guy to keep this shit coming
u can sign me up for the next bad ass version in however many years when it comes out
apple can take all my disposable income any time


The iPhone has a 90% customer satisfaction rating, more than double all other phones and smart phones out there. People can bitch all they want about no 3G and the virtual keyboard, but only when you own it do you see how great the device really is. Just tonight I was demoing it for someone and he's like "type this sentence" and I typed out his sentence error free faster than any other keyboard could.


I also used my discount to buy an iPhone for a friend who is an engineer at Microsoft on the Windows Mobile software team. So basically he writes the software for the HTC phones and is our closest competing product (which isn't close at all). Anyway, he didn't activate his iPhone officially but hacked it so he could just swap in the SIM from his old phone. Result: Microshit doesn't know he has an iPhone and they continue to pay his cell phone bill.

This makes me very happy.

Update:

From Jackie:

iphone rocks my world. best purchase ever. kudos to steve jobs and his team of computer/phone people.