Yesterday was a special day…

So yesterday I finally did it… yep I decided to get myself an early birthday gift. I went to the AT&T store and picked up one of those 8GB touch screen goodness. It was a little odd I just could not believe the way I was treated in the store (been having bad customer service experiences of late). First of all as I was walking into the store this nice young man greeted me with a hello welcome to AT&T… that put a smile on my face after being stuck in the office all day… A minute went by and he came in and asked how could he be of assistance. After telling him what I wanted he left and came back in 30 seconds with a little black box in hand which he gave to me and passed me off to a rep that assisted me further with my purchase. She had a sheet that she ticked off after discussing certain terms, warranty info and rate plans with me. I actually had to initial this sheet of paper with all the info. She helped me pick out a case then wrapped my special purchase into a sealed bag (I kid you not) and handed it to me (she even shook my hand and handed me a card afterwards). Maybe this is usual fanfare but I have never seen someone so excited to sell a product. On the way out of the store the same young man who assisted me earlier noticed that I had a flat tire… after worrying just a tad bit about that I went to the gas station and put some air in there which seems to be holding up just fine. I could hardly contain myself on the way home I was so excited. I took extra special care on the drive home… Upon reaching home, I made myself eat something first then sat down and opened the bag. I had a heck of a time opening that bag (that was the hardest part). After that it was open the black box, attached the cradle to my computer and sync. All was well and I was pretty excited to say the least. It did take me a bit of time to update to the latest software… I suppose the firmware update that everyone is talking about coz some special ring-tones that I had made a few days ago would not sync. I was really surprised how easy it was to use the thing… I should know by now that Apple knows how to design products for people to use but it was so intuitive almost second nature…

My first Impressions:

• Its intuitive and easy to use as I stated before
• The keyboard takes a bit getting used to and I didn’t realize how fat my fingertips were until I started trying to use said keyboard
• Videos and pictures looks really amazing on this thing even better than my monitor and my monitor is pretty sharp
• The AT&T edge network is slow for browsing the web but pretty snappy for sending emails
• It recognizes when a wireless network is near with no problems was surprised as my computer takes longer
• Its not all that clear to me at this point how to sync just my newest email messages it seems to sync one too many (I’ll figure this out later)
• It definitely draws attention so if you don’t like that kind of thing keep it hidden
• It seems to take longer to sync than an iPod perhaps because of all the stuff its looking for…