Brian's Brain

Fedex delivered it (an 8 GByte model) yesterday morning, it sat here awaiting my return from Quincy yesterday afternoon, and I'm activating it (month-by-month) as soon as Parallels Desktop shuts down on my MacBook. It's smaller than I thought it'd be. ;-) One glitch that I've already discovered; activation requires not only iTunes 7.3 but also OS 10.4, which is why my G5 PowerMac didn't auto-launch iTunes when I tried connecting the iPhone to it (although, amusingly, Kodak's EasyShare auto-launched, recognizing the iPhone's built-in camera). Fortunately, one of the four Macs in this household is running Apple's latest O/S iteration....

EDN's planning a multi-part coverage approach:

1. I'll have it for about a week, and (particularly after relocating myself to a locale with decent GSM coverage) will provide some hands-on impressions via Brian's Brain posts.
2. Then I'll ship it down to Robert Cravotta, who's planning on doing some coverage of it related to his August 16 'Gesture Interfaces' cover story.
3. Finally, Robert will ship it back to me, and I'll (gasp) tear it apart, as carefully as possible in the hopes of being able to subsequently put it back together in un-Humpty-Dumpty-ish (i.e. fully-functional) form. Although plenty of iPhone rip-aparts have already appeared, I 'spect my Prying Eyes analysis will still provide some unique tidbits for y'all.

On that note, is there anything in particular you'd like Robert and/or myself to check out? Comment away!

Followup: I just called my wife, who said 'it sounds like a phone' ;-) That's particularly encouraging news considering I was calling her from my historically poor-reception office.