It s been about 8 months since I started using an iPhone. Oddly, I wasn t even interested at the time; I got the phone as a freebie for going to the Office 2.0 conference in 2007, and it sat on my desk for a week before I even activated it. Color me unexcited. But then, things changed. Turned out I did like it, a lot. It was fun . I m a sucker for fun gadgets. I switched my regular phone number over about a week later, and I ve been using it ever since. So the other day, I was out to lunch with someone, and he asked how I liked it. And while I was answering, I had two interesting realizations: 1. It s still fun. I mean, all the little animations and eye candy. The little things. Could I live without them? Sure. But having them there somehow makes the whole experience continue to work. 2. It s the first smart phone I ve ever had that didn t annoy me. I mean, really. Smartphones I ve had in the past (from Audiovox, Motorola, Palm, and others) all eventually sucked at the little things. You know, like making phone calls. Sometimes I d find that the phones were too busy doing something (gosh knows what exactly) to even let me make a call. Or too busy to ring when a call was coming in. Sometimes they d lock up. Sometimes they d get into a weird mode where anything I did would take 10+ seconds. Sometimes they d make me want to throw them against a wall. But oddly, the iPhone has done none of these things. It s not perfect by any means - it s got a few little bugs but at risk of sounding like a fanboy, I have to say it works better as a phone than any phone I ve had in the last 3 years. And that is something I never thought I d say.
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