Okay, so I got the iPhone to sync up (or, at least to start - it’s working on it as I type this, and going as slow as I expected, considering it’s USB 1.1), and I’d had it set to sync my contact data - so first it warned me that it was going to move 60+ contacts from the iPhone, and that’s more contacts than I had in address book, and am I sure? And then it pops up to let me know there’s one conflict. So, you know, it’s supposed to be for like which phone number is current, or if you’ve got two last names for someone, which one do you want to keep, okay? (Note: I seem to have named my iPhone “Impossible”.) So here’s what mine showed:

Not having looked at my address book in some years, I had no idea she even had a contact set up in there, and it’s weird (to me) that I would have selected the same field, years apart and on separate platforms, to perform the same non-standard descriptive function. Still, you have to appreciate that I manually entered her contact into the iPhone and manually sought out a field to put that extra piece of sentiment (data) in.

So, not exactly the best interface for typing, but sortof awesome that I can get in here and post at all. So, the big news here is that I did decide to go get an iPhone today. Very smooth signup process, my phone number transfered over in a matter of a few clicks and a few minutes. The screen is great. Brilliant. And because I have never used a contacts management program, I manually entered all my contacts by going through my old phone.

One down side is that I’m having trouble syncing with my iMac; it does not have USB 2.0, only 1.1… It connects sometimes, but doesn’t sync. My recently-built Wintel PC has a 2.0 port, and I can sync there, but… my music isn’t on that machine. I’m thinking about moving the 35Gb of music over, but that’s a bit of a big transfer for my 802.11b wireless network. Ah, well. Still fun.

Yay for $200 price drops! That helped me get over most of my doubts about buying it right away.