Culmination

After nearly six solid months of breathing exercises to calm my excitement over the iPhone, today was the day I actually got to hold one in my hands. And while I can’t say it was mine – my boss let me hold it after I promised I wouldn’t abscond with it to a non-extradition treaty country, where we would lead simple but happy lives on the beach as a man, his phone and so much more – I can say that it was pretty incredible. Since the device has already been reviewed one or two (billion) times, I’ll skip the tech talk and say it’s a sleek, intuitive, frighteningly well-engineered piece of machinery that will make you feel happy inside. I’m not sure if that’s an actual listed feature but it should be.

YouTube, however, is counted among the phone’s long list of features, and I fired it up to finally live out my dream of seeing THE FUTURE IS CALLING on an iPhone. You’ll see a still frame of a guy touching an iPhone in the picture above…framed by a still frame of a guy touching an iPhone (while film school tells me this is considered “meta”, I prefer “cosmic”.) While I won’t be getting a shiny black monolith of my very own until the movie wraps at the end of the year, in the meantime I can tell you this:

My hands are still warm from the iPhone’s touch, and I’m never going to wash them again.