By now, probably everyone already knows that the iPhone is coming to Vermont on January 15, this Thursday — legally, that is. I’m sure all of us know people, or know of people, who have their little illegal iPhones, with their out-of-state phone numbers, who gleefully use them with impunity.

Now the rest of us law abiding citizens can finally get in on the action.

But should we? Should I get an iPhone? I’ve been wondering this lately. I was a little late to the whole cell phone party, and I’m wondering if I need to be on time to this one, so to speak. You who have iPhones already — please tell me, what am I missing? Is it really as great as all that?

UPDATE: Steve Ames tweets from his iPhone that there are 22 people lined up to get the iPhone at AT&T store in the Burlington Town Center.

This article appears in Jan 14-20, 2009.

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex to prove it. As the paper’s first online editor, she launched Seven Days email newsletters and started the paper’s first social media accounts. Cathy has overseen Kids VT, Vermont’s...