Waited 5min in line at the Apple Store at Valley Fair (where Woz showed up yesterday and was given the first spot in line). Waiting all day Friday is for suckers! iTunes activation was painless, although it was about 4 hours before my phone number rang through to the iPhone. Syncing all my media is pretty slow - but I assume that's the limitations of how fast you can push 8GB over USB and nothing to do w/ the iPhone.

One annoying thing is that it doesn't seem to be treated like a shuffle - iTunes created a random sample of my music library as a playlist and synced that, rather than what seems ideal which is some sort of incremental shuffle (trade a few songs each time it's plugged in). Or at least a setting for how often to re-shuffle. I'm also concerned about what happens when I put video on there - hopefully it will cleanly subsample my music. With so many different types of media, there needs to be a priority system to handle these clashes. (UPDATE: In fact, the iPhone failed to sync my photos because it first used up all the space with a subset of my music. Lame! Music is for filling the rest of the space that video doesn't.)

It's substantially slimmer than a Treo, which now seems a bit chubby (especially w/ case) - I keep thinking I've forgotten my phone because my phone pocket is not so bulgy. I hadn't realized the size of the Treo annoyed me, but it's a relief to have a smaller phone.

The screen is huge and *stunning*, watching video on this is much more like a laptop or one of those little Panasonic players than a phone. It may be that the iPhone will turn me into a legal purchaser of video b/c of the nice integration w/ the iTunes music store...but I hope not :). Paying for copies of bits just grates! Anyone know anything about getting non iTunes video into iTunes and synced with iPod/iPhone?

The touch interface is neat and often intuitive, it's really fun to use when it works (ie Google Maps), but very frustrating when it doesn't ("How the hell do I do ____?" where _____ is simple and would be found in a menu on any normal device). Hopefully much of the UI is programmed in components, and over time they will add more functionality (ie some lists are drag-rearrangeable, others are not).

The screen smudges easily but wipes clean easily and the smudges don't really show unless it's off, although I could imagine them causing problems in bright sunlight.

WiFi setup was a breeze. Given the bad things I've heard about the EDGE network, I suspect that living in Mountain View where we have free wireless is going to make the internet aspects of the phone much less frustrating than for some others. EDGE has been a little slow, but not that slow compared to my Sprint service, although a lot slower than Shannon's Verizon Treo.

Email setup was easy - Gmail is preconfigured, I just entered my account, it told me I needed to turn on POP, I turned on POP, it worked.

I'm not sure I actually like the web browser better than the Treo. The Treo has "Optimized Mode", where it squishes everything horizontally (short line wrapping) to make a long narrow page which you can easily read. The iPhone instead renders the full page on the screen, and then lets you zoom and pan. While the zooming and panning (like any finger manipulation) is really fun, the result is total garbage if you want to read a text-heavy page like, say, Bloglines or LJ, since you have a choice between a) text too small to read, or b) viewing a rectangular subsection of each entry. WTF? I mean, the full page rendering is perfect for viewing a large, sectioned webpage (CNN), but why can't the "full version of Safari" also render the page in a readable size for a narrower screen width like Blazer?

I started subscribing to video podcasts, they look & sound great. I'd liked "Ask a Ninja" when I watched a few early episodes, but I hadn't realized it was still good - that's hard to do. Any recommendations for good vcasts? A bummer Ze Frank quit, right now I have Diggnation and Rocketboom.

Typing is a bit of a pain, I keep missing letters because I want to see where my finger is going and so I aim wrong. They say after a week you get a lot faster, we'll see. As other's have reported, the landscape keyboard is much easier to use, but unfortunately only shows up in Safari, since that's the only place you do text-entry from a landscape view.

A quick app-by-app rundown:

SMS - Conversations and pretty iChat bubbles, but font size is a bit big for long conversations, and keyboard is annoying for long messages.

Calendar - Has nice day/month views, and a list view I like, but could use a landscape week view. Syncs with iCal, so I will switch back to from gCal.

Photos - If I used iPhoto regularly, would be meticulously organized. As it is, it's a more random collection of pictures that happened to be in iPhoto. The app is nice, you can play any folder as a slideshow, for example.

Camera - Since the screen is gorgeous, the viewfinder is too. Pics look nice, and can trivially be emailed. The shutter effect is annoying, especially since there is a lag - the pic is taken after the click/shutter. No video, sigh.

YouTube - Review is: way too fucking slow (and this was on wifi - service overloaded, maybe?)

Stocks - Very simple widget, doubt I'll use it much since what I generally do at Yahoo Finance is not just check the movement but read the news stories.

Google Maps - Awesome, of course. Flicking the map around is a lot more fun than dragging it with the stylus :). Looks huge and gorgeous on the iPhone screen - this would make a great car GPS system, I hope they come out with a bluetooth GPS system for it. There are some weird effects because it does continuous zoom rather than discrete levels - as you zoom out you get weird aliasing on the text, and then suddenly the map scale changes. Other than that, just like any other Google Maps on phone (ie, awesome!)

Weather - simple, pretty. Weather & Stocks are exactly the sort of thing they should open up to developers - simple widgets that basically just format and display some information. (and anyone who buys the Apple line about Web 2.0 apps being the answer should compare the speed and ease of use of Weather/Stocks on the iPhone with having to go to a webpage to get the same info).

Clock/Stopwatch/Timer - nothing to say.

Calculator - Very barebones, not even sqrt.

Notes - I've used the treo to jot stuff down on occasion, but even its keyboard compared unfavorably with a pen - so I suspect that the iPhone makes a terrible memo pad.

Phone - Voicemail setup keeps failing :(. Other than that, pretty nice and intuitive, and it's fun to flick through lists, but (as mentioned earlier), it's ridiculous to not be able to type to search through contacts. Haven't used the phone part much yet.

Mail - very pretty, links work well. But does no folders, and no threading - it's been awhile since I've seen my email as a big stream, it's kinda annoying.

Safari - See comments above. The "tabbed browsing" mode is really neat, I stumbled on it by opening a link from Mail, you get to flick through previews to browse/close tabs.

iPod - Haven't used it a lot. It doesn't allow searching, which is a bit annoying, but mostly I just shuffle music anyway. As mentioned, the control of syncing media is kinda sucky. Video looks awesome, and there is a nice option to delete it after you watch it. I tried "Cover Flow" briefly, but almost none of my albums have covers. Not that I really care - as far as I'm concerned, Cover Flow is pointless nostalgia which neglects the advantages of digital technology (being able to search and slice your collection however you want, not just by album).

The built-in speakers are pretty nice - I suspect the iPhone's going to make a great "So we're in the hot tub", or "So we're cleaning the lounge" insta-music machine.

That's everything! If you see me in person, you are of course welcome to fondle the iPhone, as long as I get a squeeze too :).