Ok, I haven’t blogged about this yet, and I know everyone else and their grandma already has. Heck, it was even mentioned on my local cable access station. So now it is my turn to drop in my 2 cents. I can sum it up in one word, well two but then this blog wouldn’t be rated PG. WOW! And 3 other words I want one!!!!We all know the features of this amazing piece of hardware so I won’t list them again here but I will mention a few. The touch screen, finally something that makes sense, I have always hated the archiac keypads on modern day phones, I remember getting my first touch tone phone, probably circa 1984. So the touch screen interface only makes sense, and exactly what Steve Jobs said, software now drives the interface, software is not limited to the hardware. And the only con I can think of, is it is one more mechanical thing that can die, basically if the touch screen dies, your foobard. Other than a few battery issues with early iPods I can’t think of any other serious mac hardware issues, and personally mac software interfaces are, and have always be cutting edge.

The other thing I am excited to announce, which hasn’t been released to the mainstream (that I know of) is it looks like Flash will be included on the iPhone. Since Safari is on the phone, the flash plug-in will be included. It doesn’t say if it will be Flash Lite 2.0 or the full version. part of me thinks it would be Flash Lite, but if it is running a full version of Safari and a full version of OSX, maybe it will be Flash 9 included. This would open up a whole other can of worms in the mobile universe. Actionscript 3 for your mobile application. Does anyone have a definitive answer on this? I would hope people wouldn’t start creating massive Flex applications for a mobile device because they could. I found the Flash information on this forum. Again, don’t know if it is just a rumour, but still, it’s very exciting!! See, I need one for QA purposes!!

As you can see, I’m pumped about this phone. IMAP email (yay Yahoo!), full iPod, 2 megapixel camera, ok, that could be better, but its still decent, better than my 0.5 megapixel phone camera I have now. Ok I’ll stop, I said I wouldn’t spew all the features.

Stay tuned, I will be in Silicon Valley in less than two weeks, and I will definitely be bragging on here the second I get one. Heck, I will probably be writing the post from my iPhone, if that’s the name they’ll legally be able to use. Heck, I wouldn’t care if it was named Pile o’ Shiznatt, I would still want one. In my opinion, Cisco, you can keep the name. It’s not the lowercase i that makes this phone awesome.