Well done! We’re still waiting here in Canada.

You have graduated. Start the wheezy breathing!

Gee Mike, does that mean I’m no longer his Padawan Learner in the ways of the Mobile Force?

Grrrr…

Congrats. YOU are now the Biggest Fiend of JK on the Run.

Darth — uh, James has trained you well.

First there came peer pressure, then after Web 2.0 came along there was: Twitter Pressure.

Kevin:
I got some fondle-time in with the iPhone last Sunday too. Played with it for a good half hour at the Apple store and Mike at the Biltmore store answered every question I had. I wanted to confirm Bluetooth A2DP was absent so he let me pair my Jabra BT8010 and verify it.

Still … The lack of a Flash browser, Bluetooth A2DP, Blutooth DUN, and 3G are insurmountable to me. If it were an 8GB iPod’s price, I’d buy it because I need a new iPod anyway. I can’t justify $600+Contract yet.

LOL…And here I thought you were in the clear since your initial give in to Apple marketing during launch weekend. Well congrats, the iPhone is a beautiful device, just missing too much for me to really want it. I almost gave in to the marketing machine on iDay as well but luckily I was able to resist and came to my senses. I’m holding out for the touch screen iPod. Enjoy your new gadget!

I didn’t need to waste 600 dollars on an iphone to have fun. Just reading about you guys and your iphone antics is all the iphone fun I need.

That’s three iphones in two sentences! See the fun I’m having?

Talking to Matt Miller, who returned his iPhone and then bought another one after a few days, for him the iPhone is just plain FUN. That is not a fashionable thing but a very good one indeed. Have fun, Kevin.

Interesting comments! What may have come across as a post and purchase just to be “fashionable” actually had quite a bit of thought involved. I only had a few minutes last night to ink out the post, so I focused briefly on the “how it actually happened.” Truth be told: I’ve had a number of e-mail conversations and discussions over Skype with James and Matt (mostly Matt, so blame him! ) on an iPhone purchase pros and cons. As I’ve blogged before, I’m using my smartphone functions less and less due to my nearly constant UMPC usage. The sheer number of iPhone apps/services that have popped up so quickly were another eye-opener to me. My e-mail from my hosted Exchange server is available to me via IMAP as well. I’d love for it to be a two-way synch and I expect that will happen soon. I’ve also signed up for a demo/trial of the Synchronica service that will provide the rest of my Exchange data; I think that’s worthy of a test and a report to the readers.

What’s most interesting about all of this is the true shift to services. We’ve been moving from software to services for quite some time, but this might be the first consumer device that really pins success on the services. Should be interesting to watch.

I find it sad that people are willing to seriously compromise just to get something that’s fashionable. I think GottaBeMobile is now the only mobile tech site worth taking seriously (and no, they haven’t sent me one of those little blue men yet).

I am sad that you went back on your argument. For me, the iPhone ads look cheaper by the day. If anything, I thought the Sprint Mogul and the Verizon Blackberry 8830 would have been your choices. Hope you enjoy your iPhone.

They had me at the PC/Mac Guys commercials when I switched over to Mac, and taking from Jerry McGuire, “they had me at Hello” when it came to the iPhone. Actually, it was before the “Hello” commercials at the Academy Awards – more like the Macworld Keynote, but who’s counting?

Congratulations, and welcome!

Marketing works.

Congrats on your new phone, I still know, despite Apple’s attempts otherwise, it isn’t the phone for me.

oh no, I am surrounded by iPhonies.

Haha… Welcome to the club, Kevin! I knew it was only a matter of time until ome of you at JKOTR got an iPhone