I have had the iPhone for about 2 weeks now, here are 3 things I like and 3 things I don’t.

Hits

1. You can actually browse the web on it. I think this is the best browsing experience on a phone out there right now. The iPhone has a great screen, landscape mode rocks and the zooming and panning are implemented well. Now if they would only get Flash to work…
2. I can connect to my email servers. All of them. I run my own IMAP server, I use GMail and I can connect to them both seamlessly. Best of all, when I synced to my Powerbook for the first time, the server settings were automatically copied over.
3. Visual Voicemail is great. It seems so obvious, but wow. List my messages visually and let me manage them on the phone UI, not over some outdated 80’s voice mail interface. About time.

Misses

1. Battery life. A trade off I guess, such a great piece of hardware sucks battery. Especially using the network or gps. But for me, as long as it will survive a day of ‘normal’ use and charge over night, I am happy.
2. No iChat / GTalk client One application I did use on my Blackberry was the GTalk app, I could sign in and holster my phone. I would get a buzz when someone IM’ed me. There is a GTalk webapp, but when you are running another app you are signed out.
3. No Cut and Paste. This is a pretty big one, no clipboard. There are lots of functionality built into the apps to minimize the impact, but this is something I used all the time on my Blackberry. There is a bit of a design challenge to do it ‘right’, but this is a rather large gap in functionality.

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