Probably my last diary entry prior to full review on Gear Diary; look for review there sometime in the Friday timeframe (as we like to say in the computer biz).
Enjoying playing with phone immensely. Best cell phone I’ve ever had, bar none. Certainly appreciate easy way to switch between iPod mode and phone mode with simple click of headphone switch; how easy can you get? Good reception, easy dialing, and great interface between contacts list and dialing.
Also enjoying an iPod/portable music player for first time since, really, my first decent Walkman back-in-the-day. Clearly, low weight is a major advantage with these babies, and my old PDAs were just too durn heavy and awkward.
Loving having the thing as a movie player as well. Kicks ass as a PMP.
Still missing having games and a eBook reader on this thing. Wish Apple would get on the stick about that. Not holding my breath, however.
Some bugs, for sure. Got a bum pixel. Playing music while web surfing sometimes causes both Safari and iPod player to crash. Map viewer crashes pretty regularly (happens for a lot of people, apparently; read about it on the discussions forum).
Still and all, a winner of a device. A couple more features, and it would be damn near perfect. As it is, it’s pretty stellar.
Random Blather 
Hi, Douglas.Found your blog via Technorati. Thought I’d let you know that the iPhone can display e-books, in fact. I posted pictures of it < HREF="http://blog.myspace.com/willentrekin" REL="nofollow">in my blog today.<>Check it out if you’d like.Cheers,Will Entrekin
Hi Will,Thanks for the pointer. I’ve looked at your blog, but I’m a little unsure; your book is in PDF? And how do you load it onto the iPhone? As a text file into the Notes application?I personally am not really fond of PDF books; Acrobat is a very “heavy” application. And also, I have a pretty big existing library of eReader books. But I’ll take what I can get, honestly.
Hey, Douglas.Yes, it’s in .pdf. I’ve discovered that the readers who’ve downloaded it employ a workaroud- they download the .pdf, then e-mail it to themselves and access it via their webmail. It’s an annoying extra step, but like you said, take what we can get, right?I have noted that the iPhone, contrary to some other things I’ve read, will display the .pdf in landscape mode.It’s available at Lulu (just search “Entrekin”).Hope you enjoy it if you decide to give it a whirl.Cheers.~W