Anyone who’s not been hiding under a rock since January will have heard about the iPhone and its release just a few days ago on the 29th of June. And within these few days, the iPhone has been dissected, had activation problems, and even had its root password cracked (which is useless as far as we know right now). While we Canadians are still without access to the iPhone for another year, in the late fall, we may be lucky enough to get the next gen iPhone after everyone else has had a chance to work out the bugs for us .

Some common complaints about the iPhone are it’s lack of a video recording function, no memory card expansion, non-user serviceable battery, 64-bit Windows and Vista not supported, and the CPU being a little underpowered when browsing or downloading long emails possibly in conjunction with a lack of available system memory too. One comment I got from a friend of mine when he was in the US playing with an iPhone at the Apple store was, as he said it, “[it] didn’t seem to work right unless I held it upright at an unnatural angle. The flipping back and forth between portrait and landscape isn’t quite as smooth as I’d have expected.”
AnandTech has a pretty extensive review of the iPhone for anyone who’s been trying to decide whether or not to buy one so I’d recommend you’d check that out first. Obviously the biggest selling point to the Apple iPhone is its great looks and “groundbreaking” user interface both of which just makes anyone who sees it go “ooooohhhh.. aaaahhhh…”

I’d be very interested to hear from anyone who’s purchased an iPhone to let us know what their real life experiences are with it.