I went to my local (Clarendon) store at 6:30 Friday. 200 people in line. 7:30 I returned to the store, line gone. I bought my iPhone. Went home, and because I had a Verizon # I had to wait 2.5 hours to finally activate the phone. Stayed up til 1am syncing, creating playlists, converting video, and sending Apple feedback on the couple minor things I think need to be fixed with the first iPhone software update.

8:30am Saturday morning pulled my iPhone off the dock. Rode up to a motorcycle rally in Philadelphia with the rally agenda and meeting points all bookmarked. Listened to my music on the way up. Shortly after arriving I received a text message saying that all calls to my number would now go to my iPhone. Used the iPhone's camera to take all of my event pix. Showed off my new toy to everyone. Laughed at the my friend who paid his daughter to stand in line at the Columbia Mall Store for 6 hours.

At 12:30am after spending the whole day showing off the phone to everyone the phone died. Discovered that my friend's iPod charger (4g) would not charge his phone, but that my iPod charger (3g Fire Wire) would easily charge the phone (albeit probably more slowly than we'd've liked).

Sunday morning I had a full-charge. Woke up at 7am, watched a video until everyone was up. I wish there was a brightness control on the video. Showed more people my toy at breakfast. Many were amazed. Especially the gentleman who realized that an iPhone would mean he could travel with one device instead of phone, camera, iPod, and laptop.

Rode home enjoying the iPod functions the whole way. Uploaded my iPhone pix to the web (you must unlock the phone for iPhoto to import your pix to iPhoto).

Today I'm having issues because my signal is bobbing and and down between 0 and 5 bars. Never saw that happen with Verizon. 6 dropped calls today. The call quality is definitely something I cannot afford to have go bad.