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After an hour of waiting in line at the AT&T store I scoped out, I was the 31st person there to get an (8GB) iPhone.

Here’s what I’ve learned so far:

• The interface is ridiculously slick. Your best bet is to not think and just use it … it’s smarter than you are.
• A paper clip pushed in (HARD!) to the tiny hole at the top will expose a drawer for the SIM card. Don’t bother putting your existing one in, it won’t work.
• You can not activate your iPhone if you are on a corporate AT&T account (a fact that would have been VERY helpful for my Rep to tell me 3 days ago when I told him I was going to get an iPhone).
• Once your company authorizes you to go onto an individual responsibility phone plan, and you set up the account, and you’ve called AT&T and gone to the store, and you’ve magically found all the right people in AT&T to make that happen … the actual setup of the iPhone is SLICK through iTunes.
• You will instantly realize how much it sucks to not have any connectivity between Apple apps (mail, calendar, etc.) and Lotus Notes. — As I type, I’m trying to reconfigure our office servers for IMAP to at least regain some of this.
• YouTube content seems to be filtered based on your connection (WiFi or EDGE).
• The web (on either connection type) is VERY cool. However they are handling this – the end result is slick.
• The interface is so smooth and intuitive. — I watched all of the videos last week and thought I knew how to use it. My wife picked it up (and never saw more than a picture of it) and got deep into the features without much trouble.

Enough blogging for now … I need to get back at this whole issue of “how to connect my Apple and Lotus worlds” – I can already tell this will be the single biggest frustration with the switch to an iPhone (from a Nokia E61i with GOOD).