iPhone Rocks!

The long awaited iPhone finally hit the stores today, and it was everything as promised and more! We got the 8-gig from the Tysons store a little after 7pm tonight. After playing with it, well, all night, we concluded that it is indeed amazingly intuitive, fun and easy to operate! We signed up from the iTunes website and literally took 5 minutes to enter my existing phone number to switch over from T-Mobile, and then the actual transfer was transparant to us and took exactly 30 minutes. The extra large screen real estate is great for scrolling with the fingertip swiping motion as well as ease of reading. The high resolution makes the contents so clear. The mute button allows the phone to be muted while still allowing the alarm to function usefully - excellent feature per my husband who finds his Treo nearly retarded for muting the alarm when putting the phone on mute. The 2.0 mega pixel camera works great and when docked, the picture taken on the iPhone gets snyched with iPhoto. Photos work great and the zoom in and out features enabled by pinching of two fingers are even more jaw-dropping in person. I was able to find the YouTube videos I searched for in seconds, bookmarked them for frequent viewing, and shared them with family and friends. The email setup was so easy that gmail setup took less than 1 minute, after mastering the on screen touch key board. The google maps are as good as promised; we were able to zoom in on our house in the satellite view. They sim card slot is nearly unnoticeable; the sim card tray requires merely a push of a paper clip and slides out gracefully. We tried swapping in JD's sim card with existing AT&T number but that did not work, as anticipated. The iPhone runs on OS X, so if one is familiar with Mac OS X, will find iPhone's user interface extremely familiar to use. All in all, I am extremely pleased with the iPhone. Extra memory down the road would be helpful but I am equally happy without the extra memory...and JD can't stop saying wow.