I took the plunge from migrating from WM6 to iPhone. I think I couldnt resist the clever price drop on the iPhones, and plunged in with a 4GB for $299.
I have had this immense sense of questioning whenever I had decided to buy anything from Apple. Be it a Mac book, or an iPhone. How much I can achieve doing on devices from Apple, coming from Windows background. I have had a WM5 (and recently WM6) device for almost 2 years (moved from Symbian 6.x) and I was completely satisified with the WM device I owned. It gave me a sense of freedom to do what I really want to do, and if something is not possible, write your own solution.
I knew that I would lose all the freedom when I move to iPhone, and will be walking into the close circles of OS-X. But still I took the plunge and here I am, couple of days into it, and already missing my full keyboard WM6 device.
I have been missing a couple of things that arent in the iPhone:
- Phone – Contacts: There is no short/fast way to get to the contact list in iPhone. I have to go to Phone, and then hit the Contacts tab towards the bottom, to get to the contacts list. On WM device, you can have a key (right-key by default) open up the contacts. Really helpful on a phone.
- E-mail – Mark mail as read: If you have a number of un-read emails, on WM devices you can very easily click and hold the stylus to bring up the context menu and mark the mails as ‘read’ without going through the trouble of opening each mail individually. On iPhone you need to open and view *each* email to mark it as read. Really helpful if you get regular update notifications from many services.
- E-mail – Multiple accounts switching: If you have multiple email accounts configured, it is really painful to switch between accounts. You need to keep hitting the ‘back’ (in form of bread crumb links on top left) to get to the main Email screen and then select another account. WM devices were easy: use the hardware button to switch/cycle through available accounts. (or use the tree!)
- Safari – Saving images: It was easy using pocket IE to browse to a webpage, see an image and right click it to save the image on the device. Safari is totally blocked. Just see the web pages.
These are some points which I am missing already on the iPhone, hoping I would get used to to the scheme of things on iPhone.
Apart from that, I have seen that sometimes (in iPod mode) the buttons (like play/pause) do not get immediate attention using my finger. Not sure if its the device or my finger 
I continue to play with the device hoping for some cool(er) things to hit me.
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