I know almost everyone is iPhoned to death, but I’m not, and since this is my blog, I can write about it as much as I want.

Before you click away — WAIT. I have some interesting stuff here, and if you leave now you will regret it for the rest of your days. You’ll be on your deathbed, your son feeding you the oatmeal you keep asking for, and you’ll look him in the eye and say, “Never…click away…from iPhone news. Ever.” And then you’ll exhale your last breath, nod to eternity with a dramatic head-roll, and your son will be eternally pissed off at you for wasting such an intimate moment with stupid iPhone blither.

So don’t click away if you want to be happy and loved by your son.

Anyway.

Chicago Sun-Times columnist and Mac afficionado Andy Ihnatko got 45 minutes with the iPhone and very much likes what he sees. In fact, he thinks you could call the iPhone “perfect.” That might be taking it a little too far, but it’s nice to see such positive feedback based on really using the device as opposed to speculating about it. And it’s also nice to see some real evidence emerge to counter those who, for some unknown reason, find it necessary to drag the iPhone through the mud even though it hasn’t been released yet and is clearly a step ahead of current mobile phones in many respects.

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