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Despite my efforts to wait until the second generation of iPhone, I just couldn’t stand it….I bought one. It’s an illness, I know. Hey, at least I wasn’t a one of the people who camped out! I have to say that it has exceeded my expectations in many ways. Yes, it has some room for improvement, but overall, it is an exceptional 1.0 device. Here’s a list of my favorite features:

Favorite Features

1. Sleek interface – You really can’t beat the look and feel of the iPhone interface. It’s nothing less than a work of art.
2. Synchronized Yahoo Contacts – I have used Yahoo Contacts as my primary address book for many, many years. I had tried several times to sync my contacts with my Treo 650, but never had very good results. The iPhone has been terrific so far.
3. Yahoo Mail - It’s awesome to have access to my personal mail at all times…and to be able to send e-mail from wherever I am. Although I was able to do this from my Treo fairly easily too. But now I don’t have to worry about the cost since now I have unlimited data on my plan. The mail is a much richer experience with the iPhone….nice graphics, etc.
4. Google Maps - this is what everyone (including myself) just GAWKS at. To be able to see satellite images from space on a PHONE is just incredible. It would be wonderful to have GPS, but hey, at least my Treo still has a reason for living (so I can use Tom Tom on it).
5. Rich web browsing – this was what sold me in the first place. It’s incredible to get the same net surfing experience on a phone as you get on the computer, complete with graphics and video (with the exception of some javascript).
6. You Tube - really fun. Nice to have “OK, GO!” whenever I want it.
7. iPod - I’ve never owned an iPod, so this is my first experience. I really like it and it’s especially nice to have videos. I even purchased a “This American Life” show yesterday for $1.99 and watched it last night. Really amazing.
8. WiFi – with more and more free wifi hotspots popping up all over the place, I see this being a huge convenience, especially since the EDGE network is rather slow.

And here’s what I want in iPhone 2.0.

Wish List

1. Synchronized Yahoo calendar
2. Fix the Safari browser so that it stops crashing on me
3. Allow for searching in contacts (On my Treo, I liked how I could filter contacts by typing the first few letters of their name.)
4. More native apps! Sure I can play the free Solitaire web app, but it’s SLOW.
5. More ring tones! (although THANK YOU for having Old Phone! It’s my fave.)
6. Improved keyboard. Everyone’s been talking about how the predictive text keyboard is so great, but it doesn’t seem to be predicting very accurately for me. Plus, I have relatively small fingers, and I find typing on the touch screen really hard. I can’t imagine what fat-fingered people do! I’m not a text message sender though, so this isn’t a huge issue for me.
7. Allow iTunes syncing from different computers without full replacement of content.