What’s that I hear?
Dot’s no expert?
Well, then Dot’s the perfect shill to give the lowest common denominator user review, no?

(1) Da iPhone is so freaking pretty. Duh.
Especially when it has the photo of your favorite person on the “cover.” One downside, the “slide to unlock” and “slide to answer” function is difficult to master in the first few days. I have missed calls because I didn’t slide fast enough.

(2) The home page is easy to navigate. All icons, all the time. I am obsessed with the Maps button. It shows me real-time traffic conditions, anywhere I may be. No need to sign on. It will miraculously find me a WiFi connection, even when I am on a highway over the lake. That makes me think I have magical gnomes with satellite reception living in my iPhone.

(3) The telephone keypad is mercifully built for fat fingered users like me.

(4) I can check ALL my email accounts.

(5) When I want to reply to an email, the keypad also miraculously appears from below. When you type in a letter, it becomes “big” so you know which one you hit. I admit, it takes a little getting used to. Again with the fat fingers.

(6) Best of all, for someone as info-starved as me, the ability to Google Anything, Anytime, is priceless. I can win (or lose) an argument that way. Here, I was trying to figure out the name of the female character in The Secret Garden.
In a perfect world, all you need is Google and Wikipedia on your iPhone. Oh, wait a minute!

(7) Scrolling and reading the Internet is extremely easy. That thing you do with the fingersâ€â€to expand or contract the pageâ€â€never gets old. The connection is way faster than any BlackJack, BlackBerry, or BlackAnything I’ve ever tried before.
One caveat for slippery fat fingers: The screen is sensitive, so I have more than once accidentally selected ads or clicked on something other than what I wanted.

(8) When you get home, all you need to do is plug it into the dock, and it automatically syncs the phone using iTunes.
CONCLUSION
IT IS PERFECT. EXCEPT IT DOESN’T SMELL LIKE BACON. YET.
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