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Over a million iPhones have been sold.  Have you: bought one, considered it, or decided it's not for you?

iPhone self-portrait

Bought it this weekend! Scotty has one, too. All photos in previous two posts taken with my iPhone. Not only that, but it is SUPER easy to email the photos right from the phone. I was whipping them off to grandmas and friends and family (and vox) as soon as I took them. Fun! So much easier than dealing with uploads off my digicam. Of course the photo quality – while not bad for a phone camera when there's adequate light – has nothing on my digital cameras, but it's super convenient and I always have my phone, so I'm likely to use it for that purpose quite often. Resolution of photos is 480×640 (4×6 prints). Not bad for everyday snaps.

I wish it interfaced better with the google suite, but now that google is IMAPing, I can access my email off the iphone as seamlessly as any other web machine!

I also love how it is also an 8G iPod! And how I can download music directly from iTunes onto the iPhone AND it synchs the music with my desktop automatically.

Surprising, there are no games on it. And no GPS like blackberries have (although it does have google maps).

I'm very satisfied with it for my needs (which is more pleasure vs. business). If I had to type a lot of email on a smartphone, I would have gone for a blackberry, I think.

The only thing (for me) that would make iPhone perfect is if it could synch with my google calendar like it does gmail. I CAN easily access my calendar from Safari on the iPhone, but certainly not as ideal as having the phone's main menu calendar button link directly to my google calendar. (It does link directly and synch with the outlook calendar, but I abandoned that for google a couple years ago.)

Also, I was able to import my google contacts into the phone. It was a bit of a hassle – had to export to CSV and then import to outlook and then synch, but it was doable and it is lovely to have everything so nicely consolidated now. Before I had phone numbers on my phone contacts and email addresses on my gmail contacts. I took a little time on Sunday to get all the phone numbers entered on my gmail contacts before I did the export.

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