In case you were living under a rock, or in a cave, or on the third moon of Adapose 3 and you some how missed the chaos last week, the 3g version of the “greatest thing since Jesus walked on water” was released last Friday. That’s right, the 3g iPhone. Personally, I’m not a mac fan at all. Yes, they build a pretty box. And yes, they know how to make the gui look amazing. But their OS is just BSD. Their phone, is, in all practicality, an iPod that can make calls.

The “nice” thing about this version is that is does sync flawlessly with the Exchange server we use for email and whatnot… so no more tricks with yahoo or other methods to get your business email on the damned thing.

We have a couple of sales reps where I work that are Mac fans and as predicted, two of them already ordered their phones and a third is still trying to find one in a store…

I had the chance to set one up yesterday and I have to say I was not impressed at all. Aside from the thing being all shiny and black, it gets smudges on it like nothing else, the screen was covered in finger prints with in seconds and typing on the damned thing is next to impossible (note: I have a Blackberry curve 8310 and you’ll have to pry it from my cold dead hands). The fact that the letters are rather close together and you can’t really tell where one ends and the other begins is a pain in the ass.

Plus, when trying to type in a 40 character wep key for a wireless network, you have to keep switching back and forth between the letters and the numbers. From the limited experience I had setting up the email account, typing on the thing is going to take a while to get used to.

Ultimately, I think that if I was just out to buy the latest and greatest fad and I didn’t care about being too productive on my phone I’d probably rush right out and get one. In fact, with the built in wifi, you *might* be able to get away without having a data plan, but then you’d just have an ipod that could make calls. And that’d be a waste.

I love my BB Curve. Is there a phone in your life you can’t live with out??