GaneshaXi’s response was basically: “My $50 phone is better and you’re a sheep for buying an iPhone”.

So instead of taking the old internet advice of “Don’t Feed the Troll“, I decided to make a ‘just-for-fun’ list of things I do (regularly) with my iPhone:

1. Make and receive calls (duh, it’s a phone).
2. Send and receive text messages.
3. Send and receive emails (and using IMAP, so my MacBook Pro email shows if I’ve read them or not).
4. Update contacts and calendar without synching (via the magic of mobileMe).  So if I add, edit or delete a contact or calendar item on my Mac or on my iPhone, the other one receives an update.
5. Take pictures, send pictures to this blog, facebook, twitpic, etc.
6. View twitter, write tweets, respond to tweets, etc using Tweetie.
7. Update all of my chosen social sites (Facebook, this blog, typepad, FriendFeed, LinkedIn, etc) with Ping.FM using Pingle.
8. Review and accept / reject comments on this blog and on Spoken Whirred using the WordPress app.
9. Listen to music, buy new music, create playlists (while still being able to accept calls during the middle of a song, very useful when I’m out on a long bike ride).
10. Check baseball scores and listen to MLB radio (via MLB app).
11. Check my fantasy baseball daily stats and update my team (via CBSSportsLine app).
12. Surf the Web (mostly stltoday.com/sports and vivaelbirdos).
13. Read the Bible.
14. Read eBooks.
15. Watch full length movies, usually on a plane (currently on my iPhone is Iron Man, which I’ve watched like 50 times).
16. Listen to my favorite music from Pandora.com (via their free app).
17. Check the weather, view radar and view The Weather Channel forecast, using their app.
18. Get turn by turn directions and if lost find out where the heck I am.
19. Skype IM to friends (and sometimes calls).
20. Take notes.
21. Browse and view YouTube videos. Usually to show off something I’ve posted up there about Gabe.
22. Search for something (usually a store location) while driving using voice activated search (Google app).
23. Remote control Keynote presentations running on my Mac without using a mouse.
24. Remote control iTunes on my Mac during parties (choose next song, pause, start, etc).
25. Check in on Brightkite, view who’s around me, etc.
26. Surf Wikis.
27. Check nutritional information about food I’m eating.
28. Track sports scores (using a couple different apps).
29. Check the status of FedEx shipments.
30. Look up words in the dictionary.
31. Play checkers when I’m waiting in line at Disney World.
32. Check facebook messages, view friends status, etc using Facebook app.
33. Use a calculator for tips, change, etc.
34. Choose shows to record on my DirecTV when I’m away from home (use this mostly for Cardinals games).
35. Set and snooze alarm clock (usually when out of town).

I’m sure there are more I’m forgetting, but I think you get the gist. When I make a tongue-in-cheek comment about my phone being superior, it’s not because I’m a sheep. It’s because it is.  I’m a tech guy (a former full-time software developer) who uses his phone for everything. I’ve had two Windows Mobile phones, they were fine, but not this good. I’ve also had a couple palm based phones (Treos), again, not this good.  And I’m sure your blackberry could do half this stuff, maybe more.  But again not this well. Because I haven’t even mentioned the intuitive touch screen yet (the one every other device is trying to copy without breaking apple’s patents) or the fact that it completely replaced my iPod.

Even better than all of this is that when the phone starts to get outdated, they just update the OS software so it can do more, unlike Microsoft who won’t update their mobile OS to carriers, because the carriers want people to buy a new phone.