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August 9, 2007 10:36 PM PDT

My iPhone's metrics: Various measures of life with the iPhone

by Kevin Ho
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Like the Harper's Index, here are some numbers I've observed over the past 40 days... (well, 42 days actually).

Number of days in my possession: 42

Number of iPhones I purchased: 2

Number of which I kept: 1

Percent, to the nearest whole integer, of commission I took for getting a certain someone their iPhone: 0

Approximate number of hours waited in line: 10

Approximate number of days after I waited in line until the iPhone was sold out: 1

Number of people who cut in front of me in the line: 40

Number of people I allowed to cut in line behind me: 1

Nearest number of dollars headphone adapter jack will cost to enable all my headphones to work properly given the iPhone's recessed audio jack: 20

Sets of headphones I cannot currently use with my iPhone while headphone adapter remains out of stock: 3

Number of times I dropped the iPhone: 1

Number of times panic struck where I thought my iPhone was kaput: 2

Number of calls dropped on AT&T's 'fewer dropped calls network:' too many

Ratio of male owners of iPhones to female owners of iPhones personally observed: 10:1

Ratio of men who want to see my iPhone to women who want to see my iPhone: 3:5

Approximate number of times I?ve had to perform a hard reset of my iPhone: 9

Number of times I restored my iPhone: 0

Version number of iPhone software available after 42 days: 1.01

Number of times I thought of bringing my iPhone to a nearby Apple Store to swap out for a new one: 3

Number of photos taken with iPhone: 103

Approximate number of times Google Picasa has imported a given photo: 5

On a scale from 1 to 10 my overall assessment, 10 being a truly metaphysical experience: 7.7

Kevin Ho is a San Francisco attorney and the owner of a brand new iPhone. He'll be writing about the experience for the CNET Blog Network, and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
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Using your iPhone
by wknjr August 18, 2007 9:32 AM PDT
Did you use your Apple iPhone to type out the article? If so, does it have a built in spell/grammer check? Here's a section of the article that could have used both (spell/grammer check)-"I discovered that you could text your status to "FBOOK" and that would take of the problem." Now, what is missing from that sentence?
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Kevin Ho is a San Francisco attorney and the owner of a brand new iPhone. He'll be writing about the experience for the CNET Blog Network.

He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET.

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