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iPhone 3G: Unboxing and First Impressions

I’ve posted a few pictures of the unboxing of my iPhone 3G. As usual for an Apple product, the packaging was excellently done. The box was surprisingly small, but contained everything necessary:

Docking Connector -> USB cable
 
Tiny, tiny power adapter
 
Iconic white headphones (with microphone… somewhere…)
 

SIM Card Removal Tool
 
Cleaning cloth
 
Once I got done with my activation mess [...]

iPhone 3G: Activation

Activation is the scary part of the iPhone process. Tales abound of yesterday’s long waits and crushing failures. Unfortunately, my story is no different.
I got my iPhone home at about 12:30 P.M. today. When I connected it to my MacBook (named Caladan for reasons that anybody familiar with my computer naming scheme should understand), iTunes [...]

iPhone 3G: The Purchasing Process

My iPhone 3G experience started this morning at about 5:50 AM, when I left my dorm to get an iPhone 3G. I hiked over to the Montclair Transcenter and picked up the 6:30 OmniTrans Route 66 bus heading Eastward. At about 7:05, I stepped off the bus, thinking I was there. Unfortunately, I was at [...]

iPhone 3G Acquired

I’ve just purchased an iPhone 3G. I’ll now make a few posts about my ordering experience.

Headphones

Since this summer, I’ve been using a pair of Sennheiser HD280 Pros. Let me just say that they’re excellent headphones, and they provide better attenuation than most noise cancellation headphones without murdering the sound quality the way active noise canceling headphones do. This is a great feature when North is having a party, or just [...]