And Google Maps is not an iPhone only thing. Many mobile devices can use it for free. But the Mogul has built in GPS so when I fire up Google Maps and turn on GPS, I not only see how to get somewhere, but see where I currently am! Aside from the voice prompts of fancier GPS, this works GREAT!

Just my thoughts on this topic.

-Chris

I used Palm Tungsten E PDA with a tiny screen. Compared to the iPhone’s, the Palm’s screen is small (2.5in vs 3.5 on the iPhone [about a third smaller] ) . It was an old device, so the touchscreen was sort of wrecked to use the stylus. I couldn’t input text using character recognition with the pen. To input text I used the small, not-meant-for-fingers on-screen keyboard to actually type with my thumbs.

It turns out that I became a sort of a master at it. And it didn’t featured a spell checker. I had to calibrate the display very often for it to workproperly because my thumbs were ruining it (the screen is no multitouch).

I think I would be able to do magic with the iPhone: bigger screen, meant-for-thumbs multitouch keys, AND type assistance.

** I do would miss the copy paste with such a capable machine.

Plus, it would be good bonus if Dataviz’s Document’s To Go for very fine Office document editing (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) actually made it to the AppStore.

2) There are places AT&T is better than Verizon, and places where the opposite is true. I left Verizon and used the 14-day grace period to rate the AT&T strength against my wife’s Verizon phone. The signal strength for me (in SoCal) was very similar.

3) AIM will have a chat client the day the 3G comes out, and I’d bet other vendors will as well. Keep in mind, however, that initially they will not be able to notify you of incoming msgs if they are not the front-most app, which kind of defeats the purpose of IM. Apple is implementing a solution for apps like these to use, but it will not be rolled out until September.

4) I’ve never comes close to using the battery in a single day, and I listen to a lot of music and do 1-2 hours of wen browsing. I do charge it every evening.

5) At initial release, I had the occasional Safari crash or freeze, but with the latest software I rarely see such events. If you think an app is acting funny, hold the home key down for about 6 seconds and the app will force quit so you can launch it again.

6) I think the size and weight are great. I use a hip holster, but it fits in the pocket nicely and I have friends who only carry it that way.

7) I’ll never understand people who think a great and simple interface must somehow be flawed, or a toy, or hiding something sub-par underneath. None of that is true in the case of the iPhone. Quite the contrary, it’s the load of crappy phones that are slapping a “touch” front-end over Windows Mobile that are hiding the sub-par goods.

HTML email look fantastic on the iPhone.

9) Jawbone works great, don’t know about your Motorola.

10) YouTube is excellent, and even sends a lower-quality (read: smaller) version of the video when you’re on EDGE so it’s still usable.

Like most radical departures, I strongly suspect for the first couple of weeks you will miss what you don’t have from the Blackberry more than you’ll appreciate what you get from the iPhone. But I also suspect that tide will begin to turn and you’ll likely not want to trade back after a couple of months.