Exchanging Phones

I’m not all sweaty over GPS, but 3G will be welcome, after a year of slumming on the EDGE.

The App Store will be revolutionary, and I’ve already and installed and started playing with about a dozen of them.

The one thing that does get my heart pumping is the 16GB hard drive. I bought my first phone on 6.29.07 with 4GB, an exercise in planned obsolescence: I figured I’ve save $100 and buy a phone with more capacity in ‘08.

But I ran into trouble immediately. I loved the phone so much, used it so much, that 4GB wasn’t enough. I was constantly managing scarcity… juggling small chunks of my music, along with podcasts and audiobooks. I hope that with four times the capacity, I’ll spend one quarter of the time managing it.

We’ll see.

And hey, Chuck gets a (nearly) new phone tomorrow, too. So drinks all around.

FRIDAY UPDATE: A lengthy wait led to a speedy activation (4 minutes, vs. 7 hours for iPhone1 last year) and seamless transition to the new phone.