This post, written on June 30, 2007 are my comments from an iphone review on Mario Armstrong’s Tech Blog,

Mario, greetings!

Nice to have met you and Phil at the York Rd AT&T location yesterday. I have not had a cell phone for years and recently have had several close friends threaten to put my on their plans.I’ve also managed to get through the past few years without an ipod. So Friday I took a decided leap of faith and purchased an iphone. I wheeled into the lot at 6:47 PM waited for the folks in suits to unlock the door and soon after Bobby, the AT&T salesman, told me that I bought the last 8GB model. I left the counter at 7:18:16 PM elated.

Almost 24 hours later, I, too, do not have a working iphone and my enthusiasm is waning. My quantum leap in technology has been stifled by lesser machines.I tried uploading itunes 7.3 on a neighbors machine last night to no avail. We shared a great bottle of wine but could not activate the iphone. This morning I tried to activate my iphone via my my aging Dell Inspirion running Windows 2000, but kept getting a prompt to upload SP4 (service pack 4) which would not load after more than a few attempts.

I did call the Towson Apple store today and they were very understanding of my PC woes.I started thinking that I might just need an $1, 800.00 laptop to make a $600 phone work.The salesperson mentioned they did have quite a few machines in stock and that they were very nice.I do need a new machine, and now feel that I’m caught up in “new tech fervor”. Activating this phone might just put me over the edge-was this the intent of the iphone launch?

Today at 2:00 PM, I jumped on a friend’s Macbook Pro, set up a new itunes account, than found that the Macbook Pro, needed an osX/TIGER update to sync with itunes 7.3 that was going to take approx 1 hour to download-too long for my friend–he just left with his machine. This afternoon I’m headed to another Mac users place to bribe some time online and will keep you posted.

Until then I’ll keep hitting the power button, pushing the “slide for emergency prompt,” and looking at the gorgeous keyboard on the screen.

Best,
Theaux Le Gardeur

This added July 1, 2007.

In the near term, I’ll be reviewing the iphone for you techies. Thankfully, all of the fly fishing gear we sell at Backwater Angler works right out of the box, the day one purchases it-most of it is even waterproof and the majority of items come with a lifetime warranty.