Yes, I was one of the millions of people that stood in line on Friday morning. I got there at 5:15am-ish and waited patiently until 8am. I was about number 30, so, I was in and out by 8:40am-ish. Well, as you probably guessed (as many of us did), I played with my new toy all weekend.
Well I have to say, my first iPhone experience was not necessarily a pleasant one.
Let me try and explain.
First, I will be doing a short series on my experience with this new toy and hopefully some videos on how do some of the things I found.
Second, let me start by saying, that this new toy is AWESOME!! The only thing I don't like is the keyboard, other than that… it ROCKS!!
Third, even though the Microsoft Exchange piece is easy to setup and works really well. I highly recommend to anyone who going to use it… do not initialize the process until you have installed all of the applications you want on to your iPhone, first.
I say this from my recent experience… I am not saying this is the case for everyone, but this happened to me.
On Friday, I immediately initialized my Exchange on my iPhone and my email started flowing right away… YAY
After that, I hooked it up to my MacBook Pro (after I installed iTunes 7.7). I stated by adding some applications right away. Well, that caused all types of problems. I installed Remote, Twitter, AIM, Google Apps, PhoneSaber, Light, Loopt, Flickr, Pandora and about two or three other apps. Well, it started rebooting about every 30 to 60 seconds. So, I uninstalled all of the apps and started over… well, this took me all day Friday and part of morning on Saturday. Then I finally gave up (after two full resets and data wipes). I took it back to the Apple store. They were very nice and exchanged it.
So, I took it home and started missing around with it again… well, guess what??? It started happening again. I knew that it wasn't the hardware (mostly)… I knew it had to be the software and/or configuration. So, I started slowly (again - both on my Mac and PC), and initialized Exchange and installed one application. Well, within 20 minutes, it started rebooting again. So, I reset again. Installed one application and then did the Exchange setup and it ran just fine for a couple hours. So, I tempted fate and added couple more apps. Well, it took about 10 minutes and it did it again… reboot city. Mind you, these apps are nothing special, just the ones I mentioned above. So, I thought just maybe I would add all the apps I wanted then initialize Exchange. Well, that has been working for about 6 hours now and no reboots.
Crazy story, but it is mine 
Well, I hope to have more stuff later on this week.
Enjoy your iPhone, if you have one… I know I will "tomorrow"
Just wanted to take a minute and tell everyone who is RSS'ing to this blog, that I am sorry. I have not posted in quite some time. I have been extremely busy and I have gotten far behind in the Mahalo world. I guess you can say I took a bit of a "vacation" from Mahalo after the VLOG Idol. I poured a lot of energy in to that and I guess I was a little burned out. Well, I am back in the game and I will be posting a lot more real soon.
To give you a little heads up. I will be doing a computer video series on http://www.seesmic.com and posting some content on my connectedgeek.net sites.
Also, if you haven't seen them, please check out:
http://www.bacheLon.com - A Fan Site for Lon Harris
http://www.clawsonparade.com - A Clawson, MI Parade website
http://gameleagues.connectedgeek.net - a COD4 gaming league
http://www.firebynightministries.org - a future location of a Church site
and
http://www.sarahatwood.net - Sarah Atwood of Nerdtainment, her new site
I was working on these during my "vacation".
Thanks again to everyone for subscribing to my blog!!
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