Just read Kenny Larkin's recent blog post about his new iPhone, cool stuff from someone who's really using it (and coming from the Blackberry world, too). He's got some good criticisms of it, but also great praise.

In particular, I've heard lots of grumbling about the virtual keyboard... is it as fast as the Blackberry keyboard? Kenny says just keep typing on the iPhone, even if you're making mistakes, because the iPhone will figure out the right words and correct you on the fly. Once you get the hang of it, it's apparently faster than the Blackberry keyboard.

Anyway, the big juicy bit is that you can activate an iPhone without doing the usual 2-year contract through AT&T. When you enter your social security number, use all 1's (so 111-11-1111). This is a special case number that means "my credit sucks", and AT&T will offer 3 options for activation, one of which is prepaid plan.