Yes, I was one of the millions of people that stood in line on Friday morning.  I got there at 5:15am-ish and waited patiently until 8am.  I was about number 30, so, I was in and out by 8:40am-ish.  Well, as you probably guessed (as many of us did), I played with my new toy all weekend.

Well I have to say, my first iPhone experience was not necessarily a pleasant one.

Let me try and explain.

First, I will be doing a short series on my experience with this new toy and hopefully some videos on how do some of the things I found.

Second, let me start by saying, that this new toy is AWESOME!!  The only thing I don’t like is the keyboard, other than that… it ROCKS!!

Third, even though the Microsoft Exchange piece is easy to setup and works really well.  I highly recommend to anyone who going to use it… do not initialize the process until you have installed all of the applications you want on to your iPhone, first.

I say this from my recent experience…  I am not saying this is the case for everyone, but this happened to me.

On Friday, I immediately initialized my Exchange on my iPhone and my email started flowing right away… YAY

After that, I hooked it up to my MacBook Pro (after I installed iTunes 7.7).  I stated by adding some applications right away.  Well, that caused all types of problems.  I installed Remote, Twitter, AIM, Google Apps, PhoneSaber, Light, Loopt, Flickr, Pandora and about two or three other apps. Well, it started rebooting about every 30 to 60 seconds.  So, I uninstalled all of the apps and started over… well, this took me all day Friday and part of morning on Saturday.  Then I finally gave up (after two full resets and data wipes).  I took it back to the Apple store.  They were very nice and exchanged it.

So, I took it home and started missing around with it again… well, guess what???  It started happening again.  I knew that it wasn’t the hardware (mostly)… I knew it had to be the software and/or configuration.  So, I started slowly (again – both on my Mac and PC), and initialized Exchange and installed one application.  Well, within 20 minutes, it started rebooting again.  So, I reset again.  Installed one application and then did the Exchange setup and it ran just fine for a couple hours.  So, I tempted fate and added couple more apps.  Well, it took about 10 minutes and it did it again… reboot city.  Mind you, these apps are nothing special, just the ones I mentioned above.  So, I thought just maybe I would add all the apps I wanted then initialize Exchange.  Well, that has been working for about 6 hours now and no reboots.

Crazy story, but it is mine

Well, I hope to have more stuff later on this week.

Enjoy your iPhone, if you have one… I know I will “tomorrow”