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10. Navigation—Have you ever used a mobile phone or PDA with a crappy menu system? I sure have, I used to own a Verizon phone and had various PDAs including Compaq iPaqs. None of them were ever easy to navigate around in. The iPhone is very different. I can easily get to the functions I need and whenever I want to get back to the main screen, I just push the button at the bottom. You're probably thinking "oh brother, Jim, give me a break! How hard is it to navigate a cell phone? Sheesh!" Well it's not really about difficulty so much as it is about comfort. The iPhone is supremely comfortable to use when it comes to moving around within its software. Don't underestimate that until you've had a chance to really use it.

9. Pictures and iPhoto—Video wasn't the only thing that I liked a lot on my new iPhone. I really liked the camera (though I understand it's not as powerful as some stand-alone cameras but it works well for my needs) and I particularly liked that all of my photos in iPhoto could easily be synced to my iPhone. I had all of my photos with me, wherever I was. Convenient, and particularly nice to me personally when I wanted to see photos of my pet parrot that recently passed away from cancer. It was just really great to be able to pull up photos of him and me together on my iPhone whenever I wanted to and remember the fun times we spent together. The iPhone/iPhoto combination really does add value to the iPhone though people don't talk about it too much.

8. Safari—Okay, I was wrong. I admit it. I bashed Safari like crazy in my last column and I've changed my mind since I bought an iPhone. It is just amazing to use Safari and get the real web on my iPhone. It's so different from the "mobile web." While Safari is not perfect (as I pointed out in my last column) it is still right now arguably the best browser on any phone (though Opera may challenge it at some point). Before I used Safari on my iPhone, I thought the web on a phone was just stupid. Now it actually works (no, there's no flash support yet but there will be) and, since you can zoom in and out, it works really well and comfortably for your eyes. I give Safari a big thumbs up at this point.

7. Multi-Touch—Here's another thing I was very skeptical about. I really thought that a hardware keyboard was a necessity, but I've realized how wrong I was about it. The touch screen on the iPhone works great for typing email as well as browsing web pages, zooming in and out of photos, and so on. It only takes a few minutes to get used to the basics of using the touch screen and not much longer to get used to the keyboard. Strangely enough, I've found myself reaching for the on-screen controls occasionally when using my iMac or Macbook Pro. It just feels so natural after using my iPhone for a while that it seems like every screen should be able to be touched. I was listening to the audiobook God is Not Great by Christoper Hitchens while laying on my couch. It was playing on my iMac and I wanted to rewind back a bit and I reached for the screen instead of the mouse. Then I realized that it wasn't my iPhone. Trust me, once you get used to a touch-screen, you'll probably end up doing the same thing.

6. Power—When I first got my iPhone, I was skeptical about how long it would last if I watched video or listened to music or whatever. Here are the stats from Apple's web site:

• Talk time: Up to 8 hours
• Standby time: Up to 250 hours
• Internet use: Up to 6 hours
• Video playback: Up to 7 hours
• Audio playback: Up to 24 hours

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