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Ok – it’s here. Finally.

Now that we’re going from fantasy to reality, we’ll see how well it does in the real world. I’m not saying it won’t, in fact I’m pretty sure it will – but it’s nice to get away from speculation at last.

Here’s my prediction for the next 4 to 6 weeks:

• We’ll see quite some bugs or functionality gaps coming up
• We’ll see lots of cool hacks making stuff possible that wasn’t supposed to be
• There’ll be a major firmware update to address the two items above

Problems:

• The iPhone gets quite hot
• TV presenter can’t answer a call – Youtube video
• Default font size in Safari too small for elderly people (sorry Dave ;) )
• Quite a lot of people report issues with activation. I also heard people surprised about locking a phone to a specific SIM. In germany, this happens a lot with pay-as-you-go phones. The interesting thing here is that is seems to happen during the activation process.
• iPhone battery life not so good
• Gizmodo no-bs iPhone review
• tuaw.com iPhone gripes

Praise:

• Scoble: It lives up to every bit of hype

Hacks:

• iPhone disassembly (gives me physical pain to watch this…)
• iTunes may be able to convert songs to ringtones
• Unlock your iPhone
• iPhone firmware available for download
• iPhone activation process hacked
• iPhone interactive shell

Got any more I should be adding? Let me know.

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