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Dwight Silverman has been an second-generation iPhone user for more than a month now, and reviews his experience with the device on today's show and in the Houston Chronicle. Excerpt:

It really is a breakthrough product, and I'll go out on a limb and say this: The iPhone is probably the most important personal technology device introduced in this decade. I believe, within its own niche, it is the equivalent of the original IBM PC. It is disruptive, both to the traditional ways people use a phone, and in the way they are designed, sold and upgraded. The personal communications landscape is changed forever, and dramatically so.

Silverman says, however, the iPhone is still a very flawed gadget. Problems include

... the iPhone 3G's notoriously poor battery life; its sluggish performance in key areas, such as when switching Web pages and using the virtual keyboard; its crashing apps, both those from Apple and third parties; the surprisingly pokey AT&T 3G network; and its unreliability when it comes to connecting to the 3G network.