Ok so this is day 3 after getting my new iPhone and this is what I’ve found. To summarize, no real deal killers yet but a couple of close calls. Apple have some explaining to do but anyway, here are the details. Oh I’m watching Season 1 of Heroes so if my post goes off track you can blame that :) If you haven’t watched it then just go get it now – I mean right now. Read this later.

Being that I needed the enterprise features of the iPhone that is where I started. I clicked the mail icon and was presented with a simple list of possible mail services, looks good so far. I picked Microsoft Exchange and entered my email, domain username and password. Done. Yes. That simple. It worked first time and in oh I don’t less time than it took to get back to the main screen my contacts were already synced.

All my email (going back I’m not sure how far yet …) appeared and was super simple to navigate. You have access to all your folders so if you’re used to the extremely limited AND OUTDATED (yes RIM you!) folder structure of the black berry this is a nice relief. A couple odd things now. You can’t mark an email un-read. You can’t add a new account from this screen. You must go into settings to add another account. Edit: I found the un-read option hiding under header details …

I did, if you’re wondering (I know you are) add my gmail account. Worked great and seems to support full sync. If I delete on my gmail via the browser it updates on the phone (via pull not push). Yes! and this was without mobileme which is cool but I don’t need it just yet.

Navigation between mail boxes is a little painful. You need to go back into accounts and pick which one you want to view. They could do with an icon on the main page for each mailbox …. maybe in time.

Overall mail is great, so easy to read, scroll and zoom.

The camera and browser is a couple words work exactly as expected. The camera is good especially on the big screen. The browser is fast on 3G or even faster on Wifi (duh) and supports wide screen.

Now a real pain. Still no MMS – yes its 2008 and v2.0 of the iPhone and yet Apple still believe we don’t need MMS. I can only assume they’re screwing us over somehow or have ads on the site that lets you get the sent pics because unless they explain why this advanced phone can’t do it then it must be money motivated. So boo.

You can’t as yet dial numbers from calendar entries which I hope will be fixed, it is extremely common to do this and I think I read on their site it was possible so maybe that is just a bug.

Overall for phone speed its acceptable. Sometimes it gets sluggish but I just leave it for a second and it gets back to normal “slick”. I’ve noticed emails disappearing and then reappearing later so definitely a few bugs. I’ll let you know how reporting them works out. So far I’d say worth it. I was a big black berry fan but I’m sick of waiting for html email! and I’m even more sick of BES.

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