iPhone mania has gripped the US. And not without reason. Okay, so there’s no 3G, and okay, the hard drive’s miniscule, and yeah, who knows if it’ll last a week before the battery starts going flat mid-call, and you can’t use Skype, and it’s got no bluetooth sync with your Mac (and the list goes on…), but there’s a reason people feel it’s a must-have item. It’s the interface of the future.

I watched the iPhone ads with two types of incredulity. One was, “I can’t believe it’s this cool!”, as in, what a brilliant interface. It looks so usable and intuitive. I want one!

The other was, “I can’t believe it’s this cool” as in, well, I just don’t believe it. I don’t believe when I pick up an iPhone it will feel as intuitive and as responsive as the ads suggest.

Well, folks, I picked one up, and it IS that cool. I was immediately in the iPhone ad, ordering calamari from the local take away (virtually, mind – no phone calls were actually made!); browsing through albums using the beautiful cover flow; skimming through the photo collection; marvelling at how it automatically switches to landscape when I turn it on its side. All the issues I had about a touch screen interface not living up to expectations melted away. That aspect of the iPhone is pretty amazing.

The other aspects, the non-3G, mini-drive, Skypeless 3rd-party app-less nature of it, I imagine many of these issues will be sorted in the coming months.

Of course, it won’t matter to us Irish much, given that it’ll probably arrive on these shores in, oh, 2018 or something…

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