iPhone first look

Well, today my cubical neighbor walked over and plopped a shiny new iPhone on my desk. 

At first I laughed at him for spending $650+ for a phone, but quickly found out that it's more than a phone.  It's really the smallest little hand held computer I've seen.  If anything, being a phone is the last item on it's list of coolness.

It can surf the web, has iChat built right in, gets email, weather, google maps (with satellite view), and web browsing, among all of the other widgets that you can get for Mac OSX.  It's like a pared down version of OSX, actually, and in a handheld package.

I thought it would be junk, but after playing with it for a few minutes, I quickly understood the mass appeal of this device.  It's pretty amazing.  When you tilt the thing, the screen changes from portrait to landscape view, just like the commercials.  I though that was some clever effect done for tv, that you would have to hit a button to really do it, but no, it's "automagical".  I thought having no direct input buttons would be weird, but they've thought of everything, and it is actually quite easy to use and get the hang of.

One cool thing I couldn't believe was that if you "pinch" or "push" the screen, it zooms into web pages and stuff, again, just like the commercial.

Now all Apple needs to do is get it down in a price range that more people can actually buy it, make it through this first year without a mass hardware failure rearing it's ugly head., and it will seal it's own fate - being the have to have device that the iPod has enjoyed for the last 5 or so years.

I'd say if you can buy Apple stock now, get a few shares.  This is going to be big.