The good:

• The ease of activation. Thus far there have not been kind words written about this experience. I had my service activated with my T-Mobile phone number transferred in 5 minutes. Incredibly fast.
• Battery life. Happy! Happy! 24 hours of music and 8 of talk time. No problems there.
• The dimensions. I remember seeing the initial photo of the iPhone being help in someone’s hand and thinking it looked like a book. Once I help the product, I realized just how small it is. The screen is just the right size. Perfect.
• Applications. Included programs such as YouTube and Safari work wonderfully.
• Touch screen. Amazing. Works perfectly.
• Keyboard. I can type on this thing much much faster than with any number pad based system. The system intelligently detects typos which actually works very well. The key to being a fast typer on this is certainly getting over your fear of typing poorly. Trust the system.

The bad:

• The ‘Edge’ network is very slow and to this point unreliable. Although this has begun working fairly well, the first 24 hours on the service was laughable. Constant “page cannot be found” errors, and slow. This looks to be improving. I am willing to chalk this down to being a result of a huge launch, with the networks being unprepared for the stress. *crossing fingers*

The frustrating:

• What the hell is going on? Where is the 64-bit support? How could a company releasing a product with this much hype conveniently forget to support any 64 bit version of Windows? Forget the fact that power users (like those you sell your product to) use these operating systems, and that they are becoming increasingly supported, if you want me to like you, then you support everything considered standard. *shakes fist*
• No manual music management through iTunes? That makes sense. How about we remove something that has been standard with the iPod family for some time, and take it out just to mess with people? Get used to making playlists for the time being.
• No custom ring tones? If there is ANY phone on the market that should let you use an MP3, already on your phone, as a ring tone it is the iPhone. Too bad it doesn’t.