Much to Linda’s chagrin, I’ve got my first iPhone.  I’ve been wanting one for several years and anytime a friend or family member pulled their iPhone out of the pocket, my eyes glazed over.  With the recent release of the iPhone 4, my wish became even stronger.

I’ve slowly been converting to a Mac guy over the past 6 months – first with the iPod nano, then the iMac and the MacBook.  Now with the iPhone, the transformation would be complete (don’t even mention the iPad – it ain’t happenin’ around here for a long time per the other half of the finance committee).

In order to move to the iPhone, I’d been waiting for all of the phones on the Verizon contract to be out of contract.  I realized quite suddenly the other day that my phone was out of contract and I could leave the Verizon plan and leave the other two phones as they are.  Problem solved.

I walked into the AT&T store with a big smile and stated I wanted an iPhone 4…the smile was quickly gone when they stated it was out of stock and would have to be ordered.  The non-smile was almost a frown when I was told it could be up to 14 days for the arrival of the phone – but I could go ahead and pay for it all now.  I decided I’d waited 3 years for the phone, I could wait another 2 weeks if needed.  However, fortunately, it only took 4 days to arrive at my house.  After about 10 minutes of set-up, my number was ported over from my old phone and all my e-mails, contacts, and calendar was all in my phone.  Rock on!!!

I’m just beginning to learn the ins and outs of this awesome piece of technology – and I’m sure having fun doing it.