I want one too!
Not happening.

@Dave

Thanks for the link. It seems that he’s going to Tech as well - small world.

Reading his “where do you think you will be in 5 years” section and realizing that I was 5 years down the road from where he is at made me stop and think a little. I don’t think girls ever deal well with aging in general, but it definitely made me take a step back and remember my own goals when I was his age. I digress - although I might make a post about it later.

On topic though, I find that he does provide some good points, but from a research standpoint, this is the only product out there at the moment that is challenging traditional thought processes as to how we deal with interacting with traditional computing interfaces, information and bringing it to the public market at the same time. From a research standpoint, I have to get my hands on it :]

To address Paul’s points, the fact that the screen may get dirty or that it is a little bulkier than most phones is no change for me considering I currently rely on the Treo for the past 3 years (and believe me I’m due for an upgrade). The iPhone is actually a bit smaller than my current Treo and I don’t expect that the screen will get any dirtier than my current phone. I’ve read how others see that the touch keyboard will be a pain for actually typing on. I can see their point on this, but I’m hoping that my girlie small hands and nails will hopefully somehow be an advantage in that instance. I would also think that an onscreen keyboard maybe an added bonus as opposed to the small buttons that I usually trip over while typing.
Secretly I’m waiting for QWERTY to fall to the way side and for a new more robust keyboard layout to come out. People were able to easily adjust to using phones without full qwerty keyboards (where you have to hit the stupid button 3 times to get to the letter you want) that I don’t think coming out with a more robust layout would take all that much adjustment. In fact, with the onscreen buttons and the ability to create 3rd party apps, I maybe the first one to put this new standard into the public to see how they do ;]

I’ve also seen the patents that Apple has filed for the ‘rumored’ second generation of the iPhone, and that one completely blows the mind. If you are in the market for a used iPhone at that point, I’ll be selling mine to upgrade to the second generation ;]

I also want to interject that I’ve never owned an iPod because I was always waiting for them to cross the 100GB threshold so that I could store my entire music collection as well as use it as a backup hard-drive. While on a recent trip to NY I borrowed a video iPod and it completely changed things for me. I want that extra interaction am kicking myself for being stubborn and not jumping on the bandwagon sooner.
This fall I’m planning on using mass transit here in Atlanta when I move to my new place next to the Marta line and I expect the iPhone to be the perfect accompaniment for my commute - I can get all of my news, weather, watch or listen to podcasts and email people all while commuting to work. I might even purchase a .mac account if it would sync with the iPhone. I don’t think there is anything else out there that can currently compare to that.

Plus, I’m all about fashionable accessories and it’s the only smart phone that even remotely looks as cool as it performs.