I finally got an iPhone (4, my first) so I thought I'd post my first impressions after having it a few days...
First of all, overall, I love it. I'm glad I waited this long though, because until now there were always little things about the previous models that I knew would have bugged me - I mean from the first model to the 3GS - 3G, the quality of camera, copy & paste, ringtones stupidness... etc etc
One by one those obstacles have vanished, and at the same time I've built up a nice collection of iOS apps for my iPod Touch (and then iPad) in the meantime.
So ... reception issues....
I have had the phone in a couple of locations. One is out in the country, where my reception was always bad, on any phone. It didn't seem particularly worse or better really. Had to go upstairs to make sure I didn't drop a call, low bars, patchy 3G access. Pretty much the same as my old Sony phone then. Secondly, in a much more urban area near a city. Predictably, reception is much much better. The only place I noticed a slight drop in signal strength was in a department store's electronics section, which isn't altogether strange I guess. I could still make calls fine there though. I am using a thin Griffin case, but I would have got one anyway, regardless of the reported reception issues people have had. So I'm kind of happy with that too.
I was kind of pleased with how heavy and substantial it feels. It feels like a really well-built, hefty piece of kit. Beautiful object, it was kind of sad to put a case and screen protector on... And the screen, oh, the screen is just gorgeous.
Now my one major gripe / rant. And it's work-arondable, but it's fairly annoying, and surprising (both the issue and the fact I hadn't been aware of this somehow despite frequenting sites like MR a lot...!) - and that is iTunes won't let me drag music / media manually to the phone on more than one computer. It was a seriously 'lolwut?!' moment. Surely not? But apparently so. It makes less than no sense and I really hope it changes in future.
I had assumed the iPod aspect of the iPhone would work like... (guess!?) and iPod!! Typically, with my iPods I will start off copying over my favourite albums and stuff, then just manually add/delete stuff when I feel like it. Especially podcasts, which I generally delete every so often, but keep on the computer. If I am away with my laptop and I've downloaded some stuff on there, I just drag it over. If I'm at home on my desktop, where the vast majority of my library is, I use that. Fine.
Why in the name of all that is Apple can't I do the same on an iPhone?!
I understand the sense in reserving automatic syncing and/or syncing one's contacts and even apps to one machine... but seriously why does Apple care if I want to put some music on from one of my other machines?!
Just bizarre. So far I've seen a hacky solution online that I'd rather not get into, but it all seems so unnecessary. I would love someone to make look foolish tell me I'm missing something really obvious that makes this problem go away, but for me this is the weak point of the iPhone experience so far. Otherwise though, I'm very happy with it, it's a fantastic device.
nboy once again. 
