iPhone

I was prepared to hate it - the lack of fringe-essential features had me in purchase-decision oscillations all night, but after lining up from 10am, spending all day baking in the California sun and finally being blasted out into the media frenzy outside of the Palo Alto Apple store, I can say that I really do like this phone.

The crowd of media and onlookers outside the Palo Alto Apple store (Steve Jobs is just out of frame on the left, he was surrounded by young children, like some kind of crazy angel)

It's not as powerful as WinMo, and it's a hideously limited platform (being forced to use iTunes sucks, the lack of dial-up networking still makes me cry and not being able to select/cut/copy/paste is infuriating), but it's still a happily compelling experience. For example, I didn't expect to pay any attention to the YouTube features, but then ended up spending most of today watching bizarrely entertaining videos of pets and ninjas.

Bring on the software updates and fixes, and for the hardware, I'll be first in line for iPhone 2.