Oh, I tell ya, those first few moments with the iPhone were electric. Holding it in my hand and admiring its sleek body, rounded curves and incredibly bright display, caressing the touchscreen with my fingers and soaking up all the user interface eye candy. What an experience.

Nearly a week on, and most of the magic has worn off. I still enjoy using it, but after awhile all the slick screen transitions and translucent dialogue boxes - even the cool cover flow feature, where you can browse through your albums by flicking through the album art with your fingertip - became, well, ordinary.

Now, I'm hardly a "regular" mobile phone user, so many of my criticisms about the iPhone may not be applicable to you. I'm not going to cover the obvious weaknesses that everyone knows about like the lack of 3G or the non-replaceable battery; instead, I’m going to offer some observations after using the iPhone as my main mobile for a solid six days.

1. I don't like its shape. Sure, it looks pretty, but it's impractical. The sides are slippery and it doesn't "hug" my hand the way other phones do. I'm almost positive that it's going to fall from my hand onto the rock-hard pavement sometime soon, and that'll be a sad, sad day indeed.

2. I tend to write a lot of short notes to myself on my mobile, and I have to say that since I've started using the iPhone, I hardly write them anymore. The reason being? I don't like using the software keyboard. Yes, it's got a great auto-correct feature, and as far as software keyboards go it's probably the best of its kind. But I still find myself constantly having to correct mistakes, and it's slow to use.

3. I wish it had hardware media playback keys.