I am in love. With my phone. I am serious, it is by far the most awesome piece of techmology that I have handled in a LONG time. Setup was a breeze. I was sitting outside the Apple store,  it took about 5 minutes in iTunes to enable it with my existing number, upgrade my plan, and transfer all my contacts over. At diner, mom had to repremand me several times to put it away.

The camera is impressive. Even in the low light conditions of Panahar (delicious bangladeshi place), pictures came out with very minimal noise/distortion. And the two megapixels shows. At this point I hadn’t put my music on yet. This is a whole other part.

EDGE. For those not in the know, this is a form of mobile internet, which is fastish, but has a competitor, 3G. EDGE is fine though. It loads my Facebook at a perfectly acceptable speed for a phone, and can load multiple pages at a time, a feat most phones can’t accomplish. I admit, I pulled it out to check a few of my facts in debate today.

Which brings me to the iPod function. I drained my battery to around 10%, by listening to music literally nonstop. Ideally, it would last for a good 3/4 days with normal use (just calling and texting). Music playing takes quite some battery, and it stood up way better than, say, my laptop could. I have my entire library on it, and am left with a gig free for email, contacts, photos, etc. I’ll be fine storage-wise.

The User Interface is insane. You slide a square across the screen to answer a call, and the same method is used for deletion of mail messages, turning it off, and unlocking it. Additionally, a little lump on the headphone cord acts as a microphone (oh, and I also get calls in STEREO). I can also squeeze it to pause the music, answer a call, or double-squeeze to change songs. I just want to spend all day, answering and hanging up, pausing and unpausing. Way more entertaining than one of ben’s soccer games. It’s also nice having an iPod back. I had one a while ago, which I lost in Florida, but I won’t be losing my little baby.

I could literally go on forever, much longer than I could on Bhutan or the Shanghai Cooperation Association (topics at the debate tournament-total bullshit), but I’ll leave y’all off at this. Serious, if you haven’t haul your ass to an Apple store and try an iPhone. I love it.

Sent from my iPhone