I took the iPhone out into the wild today as I went out to pick up dinner. As soon as I got out of range of my wifi network the phone switched over to AT&T's EDGE network. Testing the connection using Safari while driving was probably not the best idea, but we all do it don't we? Coming from Verizon's EVDO it was definitely slow. In the rare event I'm not in wifi range it will suffice.

The keyboard is going to continue to be a challenge to get used to. In fact I'm typing this post on the phone right now. The key is definitely trusting the word correction features. It does an amazing job correcting your typing mistakes. I think the key to mastering the keyboard is to think of typing as word gestures rather than precise clicking of buttons. You can completely mistype entire words and it is able to understand what you meant by the relative positions of the keys you intended to press.

I had issues setting up the visual voicemail. When I clicked the voicemail button the phone would dial the voicemail number rather than showing me the list. I called AT&T support and after 15 minutes they had it working. Apparently I didn't have the iPhone data plan on my account. AT&T is really screwing this thing up. I hope Apple has crafted a way to break the agreement with AT&T if they can't meet certain SLAs or KPIs. Steve Jobs is probably fuming over these service issues.

I've also experienced an issue with playing music while using Safari to post to my blog. I think it's related to TinyMCE which is the text editor for my blogging sofware. When I'm typing the keyboard becomes sluggish and then the music abruptly stops.

I'm already missing the Flash support. I can't imagine we we'll be going without it for long. There has to be a good technical reason for it not shipping. I'm betting it will be part of the first non-launch related releases.

I'm also severely missing the ability to select text and copy and paste. I assume that will also be forthcoming.

That's all for the first cul day playing... err... living with the iPhone.

By the way, is it a coincidence that the iPhone and the Pixar film "Ratatouille" launched on the same weekend?  That Steve is a smart man.