Gavin Hall dot org

My iPhone has a huge crack in it from when i dropped it. That's ok, I still enjoy it and it adds some character to it. I was thinking what would it take to upgrade me to a new iPhone and I can only think of one thing.

A second camera.

Why? Mix the 3G, the second camera, the headphones with a mic and years of experience with iChat.

You get the first perfect video conferencing device.

Imagine being able to take a call and if the phone is away from your ear (and you are talking to someone else who has an iPhone away from their ear) it syncs up and you can start looking at the other person.

The bandwidth is there. The headphones will give you a good experience of being able to hear and talk to the person with the phone away from your face. Apple has perfected video conferencing on iChat. And it is just creepy enough to make me want to dial random numbers to see what people are up to.

I'd upgrade the very first day and to be honest I think everyone else I know would too.

Hopefully the iPhone has the power to encode and decode video, AT&T has the bandwidth to support it and that the phones become very popular with slutty sorority girls.

Hey oh!

The only good thing about my old RAZR cell phone was the GMail app that I had on there that let me easily check my email. Today at some point Google turned on support for IMAP. This allows me to set my iPhone up to use my GMail account in basically the same way as the web interface. When I delete a message it deletes it from GMail and when I send a message it goes into my sent box.

Google gives you instructions on how to connect but you have to go to your Mail setting on your iPhone and map the inbox, send and trash directory to the folders on GMail so that it doesn't just randomly apply labels. The only trick here is that you need to map the Trash on the iPhone to go to the All Mail on the server. That will make more sense if you are looking at the settings on your iPhone.

I'm loving it so far, the only thing that is keeping me from using it 100% of the time is that it doesn't allow you to choose the address your sending from. Thats on Apple not Google though. Although google could add in IMAP push to make me just giddy.

Show em if you got them! (Thanks Mike!)

I was interviewed by the Orlando Sentinel about the iPhone. Read it here.

It's just a quick little line at the bottom but if anyone happens to have a hard copy of the paper let me know!

Etan is a new technology writer for them and is very versed on all things tech. His column comes out every Saturday and it's definitely worth checking out.

Although it's a damn shame I didn't get to use my "I'm a grown ass man" when asked about waiting in line comment ;)

I am a sucker...I bought an iPhone.

Although it won't work with Windows 2000. Suck! I guess it's time I upgrade the Beast and its 800 mhz of fury.

update: So this "kick ass" thing deactivated my old phone but the new iphone is waiting to be activated. So for the last 4 hours I have been without a cell phone. ATT says they have no ETA on getting this done. Suck!