The phone rang early this morning. It was American, telling me that my flight was delayed several hours so l wouldn’t be waiting too long at the airport. But they also said they could get me on an earlier flight if I could make it…so I zipped out of the house and to SFO. Carpool stickers are nice to have.

There was a long line at the gate, but it was for a different flight and now I’m on the plane waiting to be told to turn the iPhone off. Typing a posting on this is difficult, but it seems to be getting easier as I go.

So now that I’ve owned an iPhone for nearly two full days, it’s time to give a full and considered review. Let’s start with the weak points:

• no 3G wide-area connectivity
• some headphones (including my noise-blocking phones) need an adapter, which I’ll really regret tomorrow on the plane, since I don’t have one
• The Gmail support is via POP, which means I get to delete mail twice
• The camera doesn’t have a flash

On the other hand, it’s a hell of a lot of fun!

I don’t yet really know how well it works as a phone (except through my car’s Bluetooth) or as an iPod — I’ll find out this week as I travel, I guess.

One other interesting note: the iPhone doesn’t have an IM client. But I found it possible to use meebo to do IM — their layout is not optimized for the small iPhone screen, so a lot of scrolling is necessary, but it can be done!