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After a week of iPhone use here is my first review. After this short summary an in-depth review will follow. Overall I really like the iPhone. The UI is quick, easy and fun to use.  The screen is gorgeous and responds to touch very well. Connecting to wireless networks and exchange is easy. 90% of the phone has  been thought out incredibly well, but there is about 10% of stuff that needs to be smoothed out. The 2.1 software has already entered beta so the phone is only going to get better. Overall, if you are waiting to get this phone, go get it.  Unless, you have no way to charge your phone during the day.

Currently five things need to be fixed for me to fully embrace the phone. Four are software issues and one is hardware.

1. Turn by turn navigation, the iphone has a plefera of apps that tell me  where cool stuff is but not how I get there.
2. Skype on the phone, why Skype or someone else has not made a native app yet confuses me. Truphone already is available for download showing that Apple will keep their word an allow voip over WiFi. Truphone costs ~6cents a minute while Skype costs 3 bucks a month for unlimited calling in the US.  From a cost stand point of calling within the US Skype dominates.
3. The ability to type in landscape mode for email, texts and anything else I want. This really is a simple software change. The feature exists already in safari, now it just needs to be porter over to the rest of the phone. It would make typing much better!!!
4. Copy and paste. Enough said.
5. Better battery life. So far in my tests battery is pretty weak, even with lite use I can’t make it all day( 8am to 10pm) without a charge in the middle. Maybe a software upgrade will help with this. I have push enabled, which drains life, and 3g disabled, so that saves me some.

I hope 2,1 comes soon and has fixes for the first four, well besides Skype they just need to publish that!!

I wrote 90% of this on my iPhone. The typing takes alittle while to get used to. I found that the key is taking a leap of faith. Once you trust that it will autocorrect, you can use two thumbs and go to town. Once more apps enable rotating to landscape for a bigger keyboard, typing will be even easier.

Until next time,
Paul