I’ve had my iPhone since day 2 integrated with both me.com for bookmarks, contacts, email and calender, as well as to my work caldender via a test ActiveSync server @ work.

I must admit the fact that the iPhone can connect to two “push” services at once is mighty handy - and the fact that in calender’s combined view you can clearly see what appointments are work, which are personal… etc.   This all cleverly without having to load all your appointments into the one work calender.    You see, I’ve always tried to not use the Outlook caldender at work for personal items (the boss can see this!), instead relying on an old fashioned paper calender system my girlfriend manages - combined with an electronic diary at home in Outlook that I manage - and we kind of manage to keep in sync.   The problem is when I’m at work as I don’t carry the home Outlook with me.    With the fact I’m forgetful double bookings therefore result.   As the nice iPhone system allows me to have the home calender at work it’s proven to be very useful… without compromising my office calender’s functionality and filling it with friend’s birthdays, social events in evening etc.

Overall  the calender support is great and is the best calender of any of the mobile devices I’ve had in last 4 years..  the navigation is what makes a calender and Apple have got it spot on.

Email - not so great. I’ve been getting duplicates on my me.com address (I’ve forwarded/redirected my main email onto the me.com address. Bascially with regard to folder filing (which is essential) - sometimes filing a completed email to say Personal on the iPhone works fine - but on the me.com webmail I end with a copy BOTH in inbox, and in personal at this point. I move the former, and have 2 of the same email in same folder.

Push however is great, and a few of my friends are emailing now instead of sms’ing as they realise I get it just as quick and its far cheaper.

Bookmarks are what I’m starting to wonder how I done without. I have a sizeable list of security bookmarks at work, all folderised, and nice. At home it was less organised - so pre me.com I had to move it all into a “Home” folder, and categorise. Now I have work, home, and laptop all nicely synced bookmark wise - even though I run a diff primary browser at home (Safari, vs IE in office due to internal apps needing IE).    If I bookmark an item of interest in the evening, its on the work PC in the morning.   Can’t beat that.

Contacts, well I’ve had synced contacts between phone, Outlook etc for years - couldn’t live with a phone that doesn’t do it. Doing it over air does help a little as I don’t need to cable to work pc, home pc etc to do it.

So, me.com over with, the iPhone itself:

Following this link on battery life, you can see my response here as a comment, so I won’t comment on battery life except to say its plenty for my usage currently. With very heavy use it would need charging during the day I imagine, and its certainally not as good battery life as the new blackberries.

Being critical, when running many apps, it sometimes needs a hard reboot- I’ve had to do this twice since Friday - some of the appstore apps may not be quality goods.. Also slingplayer for iphone would be nice if they can get around to launching it.   Also Apple - where’s a2dp so I can not have to connect headphones for mp3 listening?

But apart from all that, its actually exceeding my expectations overall - the keyboard and user interface really set it apart from my Nokia/other phones in the past - its quicker to use and more stable on heavy use than they were. Also I’ve never considered looking up information on the web while on a call with a Nokia - something I’ve done several times on the iPhone since I’ve had it!

The multitasking beats my old N73 hands down - the best example I can give is on the N73 I couldn’t surf the web and listen to a mp3 simultaneously on the train, the mp3 would just keep breaking up as the page loaded. I can on a iPhone.