From what I can tell, the Enterprise Data Plan for the iPhone 3G is absolutely unnecessary. When I was in the store the salesman asked me if I planned on getting Exchange email on this phone, or if it was just personal. I said, mainly personal, but I’ll be checking my exchange email too. He told me I had to get the $45/month data plan in order to do that. I told him that was impossible, there’s no way I need a more expensive plan just to check exchange email. I felt pretty confident from everything I’ve read online that I only needed the (already expensive) additional $30/month plan. He told me that I needed it because “they” put it in the system that way. I told him to just give me the $30/month plan, and he said to call him back if I needed to change my plan, or just to let him know if it does work without the $45 plan. Well, I got my new toy home and set it up and the exchange connection seems to work just fine, no problems. I’ll let you know if that suddenly changes, but from what I’ve seen online now researching this, people are saying they can all access exchange email just fine on the personal plan. So, don’t let AT&T upsell you, it’s a lie, you get nothing from the more expensive plan. I haven’t gotten the VPN connection to work yet, but I don’t really need it to check exchange email at my company, and I might just have it configured wrong. That’s the only conceivable thing I can imagine AT&T blocking on the personal plan. But I’m not 100% sure it is blocked.

In a related story, this blog will begin serving as a photoblog, so you can all watch what I’m doing throughout my (admittedly boring) days.

Becca got me an iPhone. So happy.

Wow, the 14ers are great at kicking your butt! There really is no such thing as an “easy” fourteener. Quandary may be a Class I peak, but for me it was pretty difficult. Lot’s of people up there today. Got sunburnt on my calves. My knee gave out right at the end, how old am I? I really hope that knee gets better, some people are planning another 14er for next Saturday. Yes, I’m a glutton for punishment. OK… time to relax a little.

On this trip I was wearing my relatively new Highgear Alterra Watch, I got it this spring and have only really used it out on a trip one other time, with no good way to verify it’s altimeter accuracy. I have to say I am a little disappointed with the altimeter’s lack of accuracy. I calibrated it to the known altitude of the trail-head and it was off (low) by over 200 feet when we got to the peak. So, I calibrated to the known altitude of the peak, and it was off by about a hundred feet when we reached the bottom at the end of the day. I’m not sure what to expect from altimeter watches, but I thought I had read these were more accurate than a GPS, if so… how bad are GPS 3D fixes anyways?

OK, enough of that complaint. Here are photos of our trip up Quandary Peak.