iPhones everywhere

I have to say, I'm a bit perplexed by the all the excitement over the iPhone. There's a staggering amount of stuff out there today. Here's a round-up of the things that caught my eye:

• BoingBoing has a pretty comprehensive (and slightly breathless) first person reaction to its features and usability. Gearlog also has a good list of its pros and cons.

• Wired's Gadget Lab does a nice blow-by-blow dissection and autopsy of the device. A slightly less subtle version of the same trick is shown in this now-infamous clip of a couple of guys smashing their new iPhone open with a hammer and nail.

• Hackzine has already collected a few iPhone hacks, including How to port ineligible numbers, Smarter synching, and Tricks for finding the iPhone's APIs.

• There's also a story about hacking the iPhone's to exploit its in-built motion sensors on Tech Review and a to-do list of iPhone hacks at PC World.

• You can read an interesting story over at the New York Times about reaction from electronics firms South Korea and Japan, some of which are already working on products designed to steal some of the iPhone's thunder.

• And finally... lots of iPhone eye-candy can be found on Flickr.

Based on all the stuff I've read, it sounds like a pretty nice device. But I'm still not convinced it'll revolutionise the cellphone as we know it. Maybe it's just because I haven't got my hands on one yet.