I’ve decided, I’m getting one (as mentioned in last blog post).

What swung the decision for me is the fact you can get 16Gb storage on a phone for mp3’s - with the size of my collection this will allow a decent amount of music for all occasions. + room for some movies and applications.

Note that in the past I was critical of the iphone (even I believe on this blog 18 months ago), but the 3 crucial things lacking then have been fixed

1. GPS
2. 3g/HSDPA!
3. 3rd party Applications

With these fixed I can’t resist getting one. Super monkey ball looks great - and excited about possibilty of GPS. Only thing I can fault really is the camera and lack of user replaceable battery. The touch interface I had tried on the old iPhone and although I think it’ll take some getting used to, I think I’ll grow to like. Also the excellent Cloud/Btopenzone roaming deal should be commented on as it should greatly increase data speeds in a lot of places I visit (liverpool street/city area for one). This doesn’t change my perception overall that Wifi will be surplanted by 3g cards where it is overpriced - coffee shops being a prime example.

I think the critical thing for Apple in terms of revenue generation on the iPhone will be MobileMe as this will allow full sync from PC to Mac, to iPhone for a very reasonable sum (in fact for less than I pay now for less email storage on another host…). If Apple get this right then it certainally will make me switch email hosts… cant’ wait for the upcoming trial. I have 2 PC’s, 2 laptops at home now - one is a work laptop admittedly so lets exclude that - however email sync is always painful between the 3 - I use imap currently… but I have no caldender/contacts sync, which this will fix at long last. This is a longstanding gripe of mine - exchange for the masses is finally here I hope!

Now I just need to prepare for the small queue (I do live in a small part of suffolk so not expecting a huge queue). I just hope they do have a 16Gb in store if I join the queue at 7:45am… if not I’ll just wait a few days/weeks until they do have stock. I’m not queuing at the crack of dawn - this isn’t that important to me!

Are you queuing?