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There isn’t much to be said about the iPhone which hasn’t already been covered by every tech blog and news outlet, so I don’t have too much to add to the mix. Personally, I had no problem typing on the keyboard. Predictive text, the feature that guesses what you meant to type even if you’re one key off on every letter, was excellent, and I was typing two handed in about 45 seconds.

But what I think is most striking about iPhone, what will have the most impact, is its design. After about 10 minutes of use, you’ll find yourself wondering, “Why don’t I have multi-touch on my <insert device name here>.” It’’s such an intuitive interface and slick design that it’s like one of those “why the hell didn’t anyone think of this before” moments which Apple is so good for.

The hype around iPhone was indeed incredible, but when you look at it in the context of computing history, I would say it definitely is revolutionary. Apple did it way back when, when they took the computer out of the beige box and decided to have it come in colors. At first everyone laughed, but soon enough you saw companies following their lead all across the industry. Again, with the iPod, people said it would fail, but it completely redefined portable music and set the standard by which all portable music was judged.

As the tagline goes, “touching is believing”, and, having touched, I do believe that Apple has once again revolutionized another part of our technological world. All the nitpicking aside (no Flash support, no copy and paste, etc.), iPhone truly is a revolutionary product. Other manufacturers will be playing catch-up for a very long time, and I predict that we’ll be judging every other phone to come by Apple’s latest accomplishment and the very high standards Apple has set.

More info and lots of how-to-use videos via Apple here.