back from the dead, with personal experience.

I offered a Iphone 3G to my dad.
He loves it.

One day he loses it... he hurries and buys a new one, 15 minutes later all of his contacts, tasks and calendar events are back and he can work again. He loved that fact... it is his first "smartphone", he even uses youtube and browses the web when he fears a keyboard and never ever tried a pc his whole life.

Oh, and his iPhone was to be found 1 hour after he bought the new one... so I got one for free...

Now I've been using it quite a bit.
I thought the loss of a keyboard would be my biggest problem, in fact the soft keyboard isn't as bad as it was when I tried it on a first gen iPhone. It's not as good as a HTC round keys keyboard, but good enough even for my appointment and calendar uses.

In fact the greater loss in the voice recognition for contacts. I'm in my car most of the day, and being able to just press my bluetooth headset once and speak the name of the contact to call them is Godsend in my case... but the iPhone doesn't have this functionnality and it's a bit hellish for me.

But, I love the way it goes on the internet, it's much quicker than any handheld device I've ever tried. It's not just about bandwidth, it's also the way you browse pages that makes the experience quicker.
And a little jailbreak, some settings, and you can hook your laptop and use an unlimited 3G access directly on a laptop. I get around 250-300KB/s and enough parellel queries for it to be very quick for a laptop connected anywhere (though speed may drop far from Paris, will test it this week end I guess)

The ipod function is fine, my 400 hours only personal collection only takes around 1.2GB, but I'm not a music lover so I hardly use it. It's nice to have it while waiting for a meeting and I'm bored browsing...

To summ it up, some losses and some great improvements.

I'll see what Googlephone Gen 2 will get us (gen 1 is not there yet and I think gen2 will be the next think to wait for)