New toy to play with . . .

I finally broke down and bought an iPhone 3G last night. It's actually only an "i" until my cell number is transferred over from Bell to Rogers (which can take "from two hours to five days").

So far, aside from the ironic response of "Oooh! Ah!" from co-workers, it hasn't changed my life . . . aren't I supposed to be all hip and cool now that I've got a JesusPhone?

The user interface is, as so many gushing reviews indicated, very well thought-out and easy to figure out. Switching from a button keyboard (on the Treo) to an onscreen keyboard is still taking me a bit of adaptation time — I was never a fast typist on the Treo, but I'm about half as fast on the iPhone so far.

One of the big reasons for me looking at an iPhone was that some of the applications I depend on are also available for the iPhone . . . except that it's still early days, and in at least one case I'll have to wait for the next revision so that I can transfer my data cleanly without needing to mess around with not-quite-approved methods.