Sent from iPhone?

I don't know about other iPhone owners, but I've had my "baby" for just over a week and I can't shake the question "What am I going to do with it?" As a phone, it has worked perfectly. Sadly, though, owning Apple's latest gem hasn't made me more popular! There hasn't been a sudden flooding of calls. Visual voicemail worked well ... both times I got a message this week. It's nice to be able to access the Web, Safari works as advertised if you are on WiFi, but I'm near a desktop computer all the time. In fact, I have three on my desk at work currently. Choosing between going online with the iPhone or a traditional computer isn't a difficult decision. I'll take a keyboard any day. The iPod functionality on the iPhone is awesome, and possibly worth the cost alone. The 8GB *cough, cough* of space goes too fast to take true advantage of iPhone as a replacement for an iPod, however. Watching YouTube is cool, I guess, at least in the way it was cool to watch "America's Funniest Home Videos" back in the day when Bob Saget hosted. You see one kid whack their father in the nuts with a wiffle ball bat, you've seen them all. There's serious content on YouTube as well, and Web sites that want you to see such videos feature them ... unfortunately, the iPhone doesn't handle embedded video. Or flash. Having a watered-down version of iCal is cool. Hopefully it help keep someone as hopelessly unorganized as I am from missing appointments. The notes function is nice, too, I just have to find a use for it. I won't plan on cutting and pasting to or from it, though, can't do that on the iPhone.

So, what can I do on this thing? Other than surfing the Web from the bathroom and checking email without having to leave the sofa when my iMac "bings" to let me know there's a new ad for erectile dysfunction cures in my inbox, that is?

I'm going to try doing something I've failed at every other time I've tried; maintaining a blog. I'm going to try doing it completely from my iPhone. All text entered on the painfully small touch screen keyboard, all photos taken with the impressive iPhone camera and all posts filed through Safari on the go.

I spent about an hour last night getting the settings done and struggling to figure out how to get photos here from my iPhone. More on that later. Thankfully, I haven't been trying any of this on the sluggish EDGE network. Also, the way I end up typing on the small keyboard, these posts are going to be done at a snail's pace. This one took over 45 minutes and I haven't spellchecked it yet. If only I was getting paid to do this.