It took me an extra week to track one down but I finally have an iPhone of my own. I had held out mainly because the extra cost over my current handset wasn't justified but having sold a couple of iPhone stories to some local magazines and selling my Nokia N95 handset has turned the benefit case around so that I've effectively achieved payback on the cost difference from my old deal.

I've gone for a white 16GB unit as I don't think the white will show fingerprints up as much as the black. I've got a 16GB iPod touch and find that less storage would not be a good thing for me. The games and apps I downloaded or purchased for the iPod touch synced across painlessly so it didn't take long for the iPhone to be fully functional for me.

I was porting my number from another carrier. I should make it clear that I've been really happy with Three. However, not being an iPhone carrier and their roaming arrangements for data (if you fall out of Three's 3G area you roam on Telstra's GPRS which as well as being slower costs a king's ransom to use) have tipped me over. Furthermore, Three (or Telstra or Vodafone) don't have network coverage at my home. Optus has coverage at my home.

Activation was quite fast an painless. Stan at MyMac Australia had set up my account and ported my number in less that 20 minutes. If you're planning to port a number from another carrier when you get you iPhone I suggest that you make sure you bring an old phone bill with the account number as that makes the transition process much faster.

I've not yet made or received a call but I have received SMS and it seems that the email features are working as advertised despite the many teething issues MobileMe is facing. A MobileMe update was released by Apple and appeared on one of my Macs via Software Update. I can't spot it on Apple's support pages and it's not appearing in Software update on my MacBook Pro so I'm not too sure what's happening there.

In any case, iPhone Mojo now has its own official iPhone and is battling Super Monkeyball addiction.

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