I’m playing tag with UPS right now, but I’ve taken the plunge and ordered a 3G iPhone with 6GB/month 3G data access.
While having GPS will be nice, it’s the 3G data access I’m most looking forward to. I’ve already started to browse the apps store looking for productivity apps, and I’ve upgraded to Flickr Pro which I’ll be using to share my mobile pics.
Some of the apps that have really stood out so far are Evernote, Wordpress, reQall (speech-to-text!), and Wikipanion. I’m still waiting for a good turn-by-turn navigation app. I’ve heard that the soon to be released 2.1.0 iPhone firmware might add this. I hope I can add the John Cleese voice … OMG they have Mr. T! “I said turn LEFT you FOOL!”.
I’ve found myself using my laptop less and less these days. My iPhone fills in nicely and I really find myself preferring it to a laptop in many situations.
I still use my workstation for work, and I wouldn’t think of ditching it for something like an iPhone (yet).
But the fact is, unless I’m at my workstation, I use my iPhone to surf the web. I would say if you looked at all the hours I spend online, minus work, the majority of it is on my iPhone. That’s an interesting change.
If Apple modified their NDA requirements on iPhone development I would be all over it. The device provides a really compelling experience, offers live data acquisition (position, light, gps sensors), ubiquitous network connectivity, and a fairly efficient (if a tad too strict) software market. It’s the start of something really great.
In the next few years there very well could be 50 million iPhones in use. That’s something awesome.
