Okay, so this week I finally broke down and purchased an iPhone.
This was a surprising turn not because I particularly dislike the iPhone, but rather because I hate - or at least hated - mobile phones in general. I just didn’t jive wall with the thought of being available 24/7, even though I have been toting a cellular phone in my pocket for a while now, since my initial resistance was broken back in 1998. Over the years, my mobile devices were mainly something I used for obsessively playing Tetris, setting my alarm clock, taking pictures on the go, and actually not talking on the phone.

Several events led to me finally forking over the cash and getting my talons on the most hyped mobile device to date, none of which have much to do with mobile technology or extreme dissatisfaction with my former Nokia. In fact, it was a Garage Geeks event I attended last week which finally dropped the Apple anvil on me: surrounded by tech-forward geeks and early adopters, when it was time to exchange digits as a part of the familiar networking circuit, I was simply mortified to whip out my Nokia and hold it for all the world to see. It simply didn’t cut it.

The second reason was that this past week, in a frantic hunt for a killer outfit to wear to a wedding (too bad Rob and Corinne of Threadbanger can’t be my personal fashion designers!), I nearly bought a dress for more than the cost of an iPhone…So I found myself wondering, if you were willing to cough up that much cash for a piece of fabric with a few sequins on it, why not spend it on something a little more durable than that?!

And so, ladies and gents, I may have lost on a drop-dead gorgeous dress by label Rhus Ovata, but I am now the master of my own mobile destiny.

Once again, working at 5min proved to be super-handy as I made my way through “iPhone Newbie” territory, and I’m not just talking about the fact that now I can unlock iPhones in my sleep: all I had to do was turn to Four20’s iPhone Studio. This dude’s got it down, and has videos spanning almost every iPhone application I’ve encountered, from Graffiti to iBlackjack.

Check out this video, for example, showing how to sync music to your iPhone from different computers:

I can already smell the sweet whiff of the iPhone SDK…