So over the weekend, my fiance needed to go to the mall. Her favorite store H&M is right next door to the Apple Store. I went in just curious to see what the iPhone can do... low and behold, I walked out with one 20 minutes later.

Using it in the store was fun. I can't stress this enough - it was really easy to use. Very intuitive. I had 2 minutes of struggling time before I realized the button at the bottom that brought you to the main menu. After that, I coasted through the tools.

When I finally brought it home, I did have some problems. I ended my old network through Sprint and moved my current number to this new phone. That had some trouble. For some reason, my iPhone kept asking me to insert my SIM card which was already in there. Also, it dropped signal instantly. Through iTunes, I had to do a system restore to get my phone to recognize my number and service again.

This problem also occurred each time I docked my iPhone to iTunes. Anytime I would sync the two, I would drop my service.

Fortunately, the problem resolved itself over the night. I don't know how it happened, but at least it's up and running at 100%.

After that madness, I was able to easily add my email to the phone. Putting up contacts was a snap. Browsing the web was really fun. So far, I get a pretty strong connection when I'm in a WiFi hot spot. I'd like to try this in a location that is void of it. The Google maps feature is my favorite. This will come in handy when I travel long distances for wedding photography. It functions in the same way Google Maps does on the web with a normal computer.

The one feature that I'm really surprised with is the camera... it's actually not bad... for a camera phone that is. I'm not saying that these photos will rival your Powershot or anything like that, but it's definitely better than my last camera. Of course, the screen is way bigger than ,my last phone, so that could be part of the illusion.

Overall, once you get the phone active, it's a great phone. Let me break it down using the five star method (5 being the best, 1 the worst):

• Phone Use: ****
  
• Internet Use: ***


• Google Maps: ****


• Text Messaging: *****


• Email: ****


• Camera Phone: **


• Misc. Features: ****


• iPod: ****


• Overall: ****

The one thing that I almost forgot to mention was the iPod feature. I almost forgot that was in there. I've never owned one, so having it in the phone is pretty sweet. Granted, I only have 4 gigs on this phone, but it turns out that 4 gigs is more than enough. I loaded over 100 songs and it has yet to crack the one gig mark. I'm going to try adding video to it next to see what happens.

I hope that this was helpful. I'll keep updating my review as I continue to use the device.