This week I decided to take the week off of work and get a bit of vacation in. My schedule has been a bit hectic and it’s only going to get worse over the next month and a half. We have a trip to Atlantic City scheduled and as my birthday is this week, he says there are few surprises scheduled

I just got back from my business trip to Miami. I’m sitting in the baggage claim area waiting for the hubby to pick me up and I remembered I hadn’t yet tried Wordpress for the iPhone! So here’s a post and a pic!

I’ve been living without my iPhone for the last two weeks or so and I have to be honest, it was torture, I was so used to my iPhone that not having it was like not having one of my hands but I kept telling myself, it’s only two weeks it won’t be that long and as such I was very excited for launch day to arrive. About a week before launch day I was informed that I had a class to teach that day and I would not be able to get in line early as planned to get my iPhone. No big deal I thought, I’ll go after work and with the iPhone being on sale at 8am… the lines should have passed. Obviously I was wrong. I went on Friday and there was a line that was estimated to be over four hours long! I went back on Saturday to an even longer line. I was torn. I did not want to wait in a long line to hand over my money but at the same time I was dying to get an iPhone back into my life, it was at this point I sort of first regretted selling my iPhone. I did score one on Tuesday afternoon but as I had a deadline at work on Wednesday I didn’t really have a chance to play with it, but I did on Wednesday afternoon and I have a few things to say about it, some good, some not so good.

Overall I like the phone, more so I’m just glad to have an iPhone back and as much as I like it, to be perfectly honest, I think I could have stuck with my first generation iPhone and just upgraded to the 2.0 software. Yes, you read that right. Let’s be honest the original phone is HARDLY antiquated in any way. With the iPhone 2.0 software update, the phone is as good as a new one. Why do I feel this way? Well to be truthful the one feature I was most excited for in the iPhone 3G has been a bit of a letdown. I was looking forward to the 3G network speeds. I have an EVDO Rev A (Sprint) 3G card and it screams as far as speed goes however the 3G network on my iPhone 3G, not so much. First of all I don’t get it at home, secondly when my phone is on 3G, I have almost no bars for voice and thirdly when I do have 3G it doesn’t seem much faster than the EDGE on my previous iPhone. I’ve been told why all of the above occur and I can live with the explainations it just seems to me that maybe I could have lived without the 3G?

The next big showstopper for me is charging. This one I found out about almost right away, as a I placed my shiny new iPhone 3G on to my iHome alarm clock to charge for the evening and I was presented with a new screen, one that told me that Charging was not supported via this device. This was not good. A quick search on the internet informed me that Apple has turned off charging via FireWire and that LOTS of Docks and Car Adapters aren’t going to charge iPhones including mine. My iPod/iPhone adapter in my car still controls the iPhone from the head unit but does not charge it. My anger at this has subsided as I’ve found other ways to charge my iPhone in the car (not allowing me to listen to it) and I read a MacWorld article where someone from Apple say there are third party adapters being worked on that will fix this.

That’s the bad… now the good. I like the feel of the new phone a lot. It feels more solid and more satisfying to hold and I really like the 2.0 Software. Mail lets you choose which email account to send your email from right in the message, mass delete email is so wonderful, screen shots are so easy to take (just press the home and sleep buttons), the Apps are so much fun to browse through and check out and to be honest just having an iPhone back in my hands is wonderful, and it’s never a bad thing to have a new phone after the old one was a year old. I do like the iPhone 3G, however I do really think I could have been just as happy with my original iPhone with the 2.0 Upgrade, tho as Pinoyboy has pointed out before I do have a “high gloss fetish” and I love shiny new things!

Okay… the wait is killing me. I want tomorrow to come already. It’s not that I’m drying to get the iPhone 3G, it’s just that I’m dying to get an iPhone back in my life period! Today iTunes 7.7 was released and the App Store is actually there, and you can see all the apps that will be available and you know what… some of them look good and most of them look free!

.Mac was upgraded to MobileMe last night and I was so excited to get up today and check it out, but it’s not working! I had just renewed my .Mac account so I’m ready to go! Now I just have to wait. Waiting sucks

This Friday, the new iPhone 3G will be unleashed and I for one can’t wait, not just because it’s the new iPhone but because I’ve been without my iPhone for the last week. That’s right… no iPhone and… it’s killing me slowly.

I very much want the new iPhone for the 3G and I decided to sell my current iPhone to try and recoup some of the cost. I decided to take a chance and put the phone on eBay and it sold almost immediately for WAY more than I expected and way more than I need to update to the iPhone 3G, however I didn’t really think through the whole living without an iPhone for two weeks.

I miss my phone a lot. I did not realize how much I took for granted on my phone. I miss so much getting my mail on my phone, quick weather updates and the SMS interface. I had no idea how much better the iChat like SMS interface is over a normal phone, or at least the phone I have now. I also miss the single button lock. I am always butt dialing or rather thigh dialing people.

I know it’s my fault, but I miss my iPhone. Friday can’t come fast enough!