The iPhone arrived! It’s either a sign of the apocalypse or the second coming, take your pick. I don’t know why but I’m just not all up in a bunch over the thing. As far as I can tell, there are four things it can do that my really old Treo can’t: visual voicemail, multi-touch display, auto sensing vertical/widescreen screen orientation and YouTube. The visual voicemail is about the only really useful thing in that list, and it’s very cool. The multi-touch display is nice, but it’s only useful when you’re working with an interface designed around it. My Treo doesn’t really need it. The widescreen display is beautiful and makes the iPhone a nice media player. My Treo has a square screen – no real need for the auto sensing stuff. YouTube, while nice, isn’t exactly a deal breaker since I can put YouTube videos on my iPod as well as my Treo. The iPhone lets you browse the site, which is nice, but that’s not where the real power lies. You can upload your own videos to YouTube and show them to people on your iPhone – which is extremely handy. While that’s handy, I can put personal videos on my Treo via my expansion cards (which the iPhone doesn’t support).

I won’t lie, the iPhone is one sexy piece of kit, and the price isn’t really that bad when you consider the RAZR sold for about $400 when it first launched a few years ago. Treos still go for around $400 unlocked. But I can do more on a Treo than I can on an iPhone. I can create, view and edit Office docs whereas an iPhone can only view them (I’m sure Google docs integration is on its way). I have an IM client on my Treo. I can send multimedia messages on my Treo. The iPhone, for some reason can show video, but it can’t capture any on its embarrassingly underpowered camera. Seriously, Sony has been making a 3.2 megapixel cameraphone that takes beautiful pics for almost a year now; what’s with the crap-tacular 2 megapixels, Apple!? Google maps? Available on the Treo along with gmail. Safari web browser? I have a choice of Palm’s native Blazer of the free Opera mini. Let’s also not forget the thousands of other apps available to the Palm OS and specifically written to enhance the Treo. Needless to say, I’m waiting for iPhone v.2.

But, as I found on YouTube, there are some fun things you can do to an iPhone:

My favorite part is when the container turns completely black. I like to think that’s when the phone’s evil was released. You can buy the blended iPhone, evil and all, along with a brand spanking new blender over on eBay.

Oh, and speaking of blending things, I am totally buying this shirt!!

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