iPhone 2.0 Hits Bulls Eye

Okay. This is a revolutionary phone.

The two big things that I felt were missing from the first rev – namely 3G and GPS capability – are no longer missing. From a phone geek perspective, this is truly a five-star handset, an honor probably earned by only a few other devices. It is also a decent PDA platform, a role that will be fully filled in once the software flood hits its pace.

And for Apple afficianados, this is iPhonethe Orgasmatron.

TUBA-PUNKS

I must find out who these guys are!

We were riding our bikes out on the Braude bike trail on July 10 when we stumbled onto this huge crowd that was blocking part of the bike path. They were all watching this marching band with somewhere between 10 to 15 pieces in it. They were dressed in a punk-ish manner, playing what I believe was a jazzed up cover of “Smooth Criminal.”

2.0 Hour Wait to Activate iPhone 2.0

I am in the middle of setting up an iPhone for work – I can see how this would be easy for personal use, but for a business’ IT department it is a real pain compared to the Windows Mobile phones. There is no real way to provision the phones on a massive scale. This would be a nightmare for more than a few phones.

I’d send the device home with the end user, but I had a feeling something like this would happen and I’m glad I didn’t trust the process. I just got through the iTunes configuration – a sixty minute ordeal since I need the iTunes account info, credit card, home billing and shipping address, super secret password, et cetera of the end user who, of course, is in another building two miles from here. He is mobile and guess what – he doesn’t have a cell phone because the number port from Verizon Wireless already went through.

To top it all off, I just got through talking to AT&T Wireless customer service and it turns out AT&T Wireless is so backed up with activation requests that it is going to take them two hours to turn on service for this $300 phone sitting on my desk.