I picked mine up last Sunday in the Omaha Nebraska Apple Store. Just walked in and requested one from the back service counter. No line. No hassle. Activated it at the bar at OMA waiting for my UA flight to DEN. Took about 2 minutes. I am already an AT&T customer, so the switch was effortless - even though my corporate discount had to be removed (and I was so advised during activation).

Completely delighted with it - but agree that
1) Ring tones are not loud enough
2) Initial typing is tricky, but just trust the keyboard and auto-correct features. Within 4 days my accuracy was WAY up.
3) Would like a little more battery life (I recharge nightly) but I admit I have mine set to check email every 15 minutes and run on WiFi at home.

Currently I have 6 email accounts syncd to it and they perform flawlessly. Video playback is excellent. People cannot belive how clear YouTube is.

Mark

current rumour is that they will have the exchange mobile activesync licensed very soon. Enabling push email to the device and seamless integration with exchange syncing and updating.

Is there any reliable info on software upgrades to improve speaker phone audio volume, etc.?

The iPhone users are very quiet the past few days. Hope they are busy enjoying the iPhone and not having buyers remorse.

Thats not going to happen. I am sure the amp is outputting at maximum safe level. To increase levels into a terribly designed acoustical structure, will cause excessive diaphragm displacement, higher distortion, and basically shorted the life of the speaker excessively.

Thats what you get if you hire bsaeband engineers to design acoustics

FWIW the Treo 650 has/had similar volume issues which could be remedied by a third party app. I used that program with my Treo and it worked pretty good. It did come with a warning that damage could occur to the unit if you used the "MAX" settings (which I never did), but it did boost the call volume noticeably.

Craig

Haha. I'm going to go out on a limb here and bet that when the iPhone launches in Europe it will have 3G.

They just announced that Telefonica Movistar will be the exclusive distributor of the iPhone in Spain.

Movistar does not have an EDGE network. They went straight from GPRS to UMTS, and now the entire country has HSDPA coverage at 3.6Mb. There is absolutely no way they could launch that thing with a GPRS-only connection.

Not going out on a limb at all, this is basically guaranteed and confirmed. Although, not officially.

That post was from the 7th June! On the 4th June, El Pais wrote something along these lines. And later on, it seemed Telefonica's O2 division was the focus - and the same channels were saying it wouldn't have 3G.

Certainly not! I love my Iphone! ^

iPhone iLove.

Ahh, but it is not secure known delivery method that will recover partially delivered emails and confirm the receipt by the intended receiver. Blackberry and GoodLink have the corner on this market.

My employer has issued a corporate wide message of: "you WILL be fired no matter who you are if you dare to try to use the iPhone for corporate use."

There are loads of other security concerns that I won't waste bandwidth detailing here. However, I found it extremely curious that even for a consumer device, they didn't include an app that allows you to wipe memory and lock the device remotely. Treos and Blackberries both have this functionality either native or third party. It's just too damned easy to have an app to do this to leave it out.

I have an iPhone (company supplied to report on issues for our customers) and a 2.5 year old Treo 650. I won't bash the iPhone, but have to say that I am perplexed at the gushing of support for it when it lacks so much functionality out of the gate. I am not a Treo fan boy - it's just a device. But I could do so much more when the 650 came out 2.5 yrs ago. Are we really separating the hype from the reality? Outside of loads of work related functionality, my main three uses for the Treo are music, games (loads of waiting in airports) and web browsing. I have all three working pretty darned well and have to add Internet Radio to the music category which is delivered via Pocket Tunes. I'm open to other thoughts on how much better the iPhone is for music (I have an iPod given to me at an IT event in a drawing, so know it well) but there are very little to no games except via the slow 'net (this IS OS X right?) and browsing with my Opera browser on the Treo is better than Safari IMHO after a couple of weeks of comparison - of course the iPhone's larger screen is very much appreciated, but comes at the cost of the keyboard switch out. As a consumer device, the keyboard thing isn't a big deal at all and in fact is a plus.

To get back to the main point, there are serious security concerns with the iPhone that causes me to give it a double thumbs down, and support the ban from all company use until they get up to snuff with their much older competitors' level of security even a Ma and Pa Kettle require.

But will it blend? http://youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI

Did Apple ever promote/market the iPhone for corporate use?

So you're saying that all WM devices that use Activesync are as bad?

How narrow minded. That tone is just hostile towards your employees. Remind me never to work at your company.

Those devices have been out since 1996 with the PalmPilot 1000/5000 and have had 11 freaking years to integrate features.

I don't think Apple is going after corporate users.

I find it funny that people keep coming on and posting long messages justifying why it's such a bad device for their needs.

Personally, I see it as a natural reaction to postings (mainly elsewhere) about how it's the best device EVAH and will make everything else redundant...

Nice looking device, very dated feature-set, swanky UI (especially for browsing), blanket media coverage? There's going to be a helluva lot of Business School cases written about this one.