Joel Evans, one of the most device agnostic men I know, has just published a rant on why he thinks he now hates his iPhone.

When I first reviewed the iPhone 3G I couldn’t say enough good things about it. I even recommended that existing owners of the iPhone upgrade to it. After a little over a month of ownership, though, I’m contemplating getting rid of mine.

Joel lists five things he hates about the 3G and two things he loves, as well as the reasons behind his choices. I’ll save the others for you to discover on his site, but here is a quote from the “hate” list:

Scratched screen
I was very careful with the original iPhone until I saw an article (I think on PC World) where they threw the iPhone into a bag with a bunch of keys. They shook it around and it surfaced without a scratch on the screen. Well, my iPhone 3G has some nice scratches on both the screen and the body and it hasn’t even been a month! Meanwhile, my original iPhone, now more than a year old, has no scratches on the screen.

As a fellow reviewer, I have to say how much I respect Joel for amending his earlier recommendation! This just drives home the point that we are consumers too, and sometimes a device that originally excited us will ultimately let us down. Read Joel’s full article, and then tell us if you agree or disagree.

Link: Rant: I think I now hate my iPhone 3G

Like many people who have made the switch from a PC to a Mac, Joel Evans has learned how to manage a work-around or two. I read with some interest an article which he forwarded me this morning, because it details some of the frustrations I was experiencing when syncing my iPhone to Entourage. I was becoming increasingly frustrated because events that I’d enter into the iPhone would not transfer back to my MacBook, which was causing me to miss appointments (totally not cool!). It eventually got so bad that when I stopped using my Exchange account, I also abandoned Entourage and went to iCal, the native Mac calendar application. Looks like I wasn’t the only one…

Out of the box the iPhone is supposed to sync effortlessly with Entourage. While that’s the claim, in the past I’ve had more than my share of issues. Sometimes the syncing just doesn’t work, other times it syncs from the iPhone to Entourage but not back again. I’ve tried a number of “fixes” in the past and a couple of months ago I couldn’t take the strange behavior anymore so I moved to just iCal and left Entourage out of the equation.

I have been thinking about getting another Hosted Exchange account because I am about to start using a Windows Mobile device again, but the idea of how I would move all of my data back to Entourage was proving rather daunting; I didn’t see an easy way to do it. Luckily Joel also reached that point slightly ahead of me…

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I just received my Geek.com Weekly Newsletter (which I highly recommend subscribing to, by the way), and tucked near the bottom was this little tidbit from my friend Joel:

Want to be a Geek Intern?

Geek.com is looking for a few driven individuals for our newly-launched summer internship program. If you are interested in technology and you want to write about it someplace aside from your Facebook wall, then this could be your chance.

The hours will be long, and the work thankless, but you’ll have access to some cool gear and as many press releases as you can handle. If you are in the NYC area, then there will be a few events as well. We need people who have an excellent understanding of current technology, strong writing skills, and at least a basic understanding of HTML and image editing.

If interested send us an email to joel at Geek dawt com with “Intern” somewhere in the title. Send along a resume, a link to your blog (if you have one), and a sample post that is up to 300 words. Candidates can be based wherever, but NYC would be ideal.

This would be a great summer opportunity for anyone who is considering a career in tech journalism, or someone who just wants a crack at a paid position writing for one of the oldest and most respected tech blogs on the internet. Hey, you never know where an unpaid intern position can lead!

Joel is a personal friend of mine, so I am sure that he will forgive me for listing a couple of hints that will give you an “in” with him as a writer: be opinionated yet fair, be concise, and be dependable!

Are you up to it? Send Joel an email!