First iPhone Reviews

[irishjayhawk]

If you cared, the first iPhone reviews are out from David Pouge of the NYTimes and Walt Mossberg.

http://solution.allthingsd.com/20070...held-computer/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/te...prod=permalink

Both essentially say the iPhone lives up to it's hype but it's sad that it's only AT&T and that it's only EDGE network system. Basically, ATT sucks.

[NewChief]

Farhad Manjoo wrote up a nice FAQ on the iPhone for salon.com today.
http://machinist.salon.com/feature/2...faq/index.html
Here is one pretty interesting piece of it:

Q:What do you mean? How could the iPhone change the larger phone business?

A: Let me tell you a story. Last week I met with Jon von Tetzchner, the CEO of the Norwegian Web browser company Opera. Von Tetzchner was in San Francisco to promote the latest version of Opera Mini, a small program that people can download on their phones to speedily breeze through the Web. Surfing the Web on Opera Mini on an ordinary cellphone isn't as pretty as surfing the Web on the iPhone, but it's still quite useful. Through an ingenious server-caching system, the program shrinks down most Web sites so they come to your phone blazingly fast, and it allows you to scan and zoom in to Web sites in much the same way that you can on the iPhone.

Opera Mini will work on just about any phone on the market today -- except the iPhone. (That's the other problem with Apple's phone: It's locked down to other developers.) I asked von Tetzchner whether this worried him. In releasing a program for people to get the Web on their phones, wasn't he just going to get soaked by the upcoming iPhone tsunami?

But von Tetzchner sees the picture exactly differently. Let's say Apple sees crazy success, selling more iPhones than Steve Jobs ever dared dream -- 20 million, 30 million, even 50 million phones over the next couple of years. How will its competitors react to this assault? Obviously, they'll produce better phones. They'll design better hardware, they'll spend more on their user interfaces, and they'll turn to software companies -- companies like Opera -- for help in improving the Web on mobile phones.

And this gets to why you should care about the iPhone even if you aren't buying one. Today everyone uses a Mac. Even if you've got a Windows PC at your desk, you're really sitting down to a computer based on an idea first offered to the public by Steve Jobs in 1984. The mouse, the menus, the windows -- they were all on Mac first, and they spread to those of us who didn't buy directly into Jobs' regime only because Apple's competitors saw the Mac's features as vital to their own success. Go out to any consumer electronics store now and you'll see the same dynamic playing out for music devices: Everything on the market looks and feels like the iPod and offers much the same features.

It could happen for phones, too. You may not buy an Apple, but it's possible your next cellphone will claim to be a fantastic "Internet communicator" and will offer a great way to surf the Web. If that happens, thank Apple.

[Fish]

There have been people already waiting in line since Monday to get the phone when it comes out on Friday. Also according to another article, people are actually tyring to pay other people to stand in line for them if they can't get off work.

Waiting for Iphone
More on the Crazies..

Yeah, the more iThink about it, the more iThink the iPhone is going to be an iDud that only hipsters, impressionable, rich children and Mac addicts buy.

Has anyone seen my Newton?

[Eleazar]

Originally Posted by KC Fish

...iThink the iPhone is going to be an iDud that only hipsters, impressionable, rich children and Mac addicts buy.

Aside from the iPod that describes the Mac brand in large part. Now that I think of it, the iPod is included.

[munkey]

Originally Posted by KC Fish

Yeah, the more iThink about it, the more iThink the iPhone is going to be an iDud that only hipsters, impressionable, rich children and Mac addicts buy.

Until it's available on an network other than AT&T your description fits this product to a tee...

[TinyEvel]

iLike my iPod. iT makes me iNteresting.

[DMAC]

I don't necessarilly want one, but I do want to play with it for a few days.

edit:

[Eleazar]

Originally Posted by DMAC

I don't necessarilly want one, but I do want to play with it for a few days.

edit:

This post belongs in the marriage thread.