Yes, I can totally blog from my iPhone.

http://consumerist.com/5063424/ultra-douche

I’m just posting the link and leaving you to fend for yourself. I had no idea these things existed, but did know they existed, just not in the way that I thought they did…
My mind boggles.

I was really apprehensive when I went into the AT&T store, not sure if I wanted to really admit to myself that I was going to do it. I felt dirty, like I was about to give Steve Jobs a blow in the back of a dirty men’s room, but circumstances had driven me forward, and I had few options left. My old T-Mobile MDA has been slowly dieing and I was forced to realize that a new reliable phone was very necessary. Especially when you do not have a land line. So as we were driving past the AT&T store on our way somewhere else I was compelled to make a snap decision, and turned into the parking lot. I loathed bowing to what felt like geeky commercial pressure as I told the salesman what I was there for.
All of that was bullshit, this thing is awesome, and I say that as one who went into it thinking that I was going to encounter flaws, but was resigned to learning to live with them. Most markedly in the department of connecting to and syncing with my work Exchange mail, but my skepticism was ill placed and I was blown away by the functionality and ease of use. Not only do I see all of my Exchange folders, and no shitting you, I can search the global address book, something I’m not sure was possible with my MDA and mobile Windows. Also, I was able to setup VPN access to the network and was able to browse our internal websites, even logging into some services. It all functioned as expected and I found myself even more impressed of the iPhone’s Safari browser. Very functional. And even cooler was that all of this was setup quickly with no muss and fuss, and I was never able to get my mobile Windows phone hooked up to the wireless at work, something I know is very easy to do with the iPhone.
So yeah, I’m very happy with my purchase and pleased that I went through with it. So far the only bad thing is what I expected and what I had already read, and that’s that the battery drains quickly if you really use the device. And by use I mean do all the things you can do with it. That may be a problem later on, we’ll see. I’m still apprehensive about selling my soul to AT&T, but that couldn’t be helped. The salesman was cool except that when I told him I was going to use it to get my work email he piped up that I needed the advanced data plan so I could get around firewalls and stuff. Um, yeah, no thanks. I’m not sure what the hell he was thinking or trying to sell me, but he didn’t pressure when I said no thanks, so it was all good.