iPhone, iPhone, iPhone. If you were born yesterday you’d be forgiven for thinking that the iPhone is the first smartphone ever released and in a way you’d be right. From my experience of Palm OS, Windows Mobile and Symbian based smartphones, none of them were that smart. They all had some big gotchas that seriously limited their usability, mainly when I had to get out the stylus for something that shouldn’t have needed it in a how-the-hell-did-this-get-past-testing moment.
The iPhone may be the first smartphone that is actually smart. Like every Apple product, it does what it’s supposed to do very well indeed. I’ve yet to use an iPhone so I wouldn’t like to comment, but the overwhelming number of positive reviews must outweigh the so-called Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Effect, although the most interesting reviews will be the ones after a month of use.
With a new product, especially something completely different like the iPhone, there will always be a honeymoon period, when the novelty is still there. The length of the honeymoon period depends on the initial wow-factor you get from the device, and people are getting pretty big wows from the iPhone, as they should. It’s a big revolutionary step towards a better smartphone and its good to see Apple bringing out something new in the market rather than the same old shit with a different model number.
The iPhone is drawing comparisons with the revolution that was the Internet, which is saying something. Nothing much in the last ten years has had as big an impact as the Internet on our lives, and if the iPhone gets updates to fill the gaps of the current version, it may well be the computer of the future.
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Lol… it’s a phone.
Yet it costs $500 before you can even make a phonecall.
It’s less an iPhone, more iDoEverything.
“From my experience of Palm OS, Windows Mobile and Symbian based smartphones, none of them were that smart. They all had some big gotchas that seriously limited their usability” - I have had similar experiences and I totally agree with you.
I’d like to see some additional functionality via firmware update but so far the I think that the iPhone compares very favorably to everything else I’ve worked with before: http://danielpasco.com/2007/06/30/iphone-comparison/
-Dan
You’re missing the entire point of the iPhone. It’s more than just a phone.
It’s obvious that if all you want to do is make calls this is not for you. $500 is an average price for a high-end mobile phone, it’s less than the Nokia N95.
Which is the whole point of the iPhone, a computer in your pocket. Did you even read the post?
Calm down!
My point was that it’s not a phone as such. If indeed you can make a phonecall on an iPhone (which I haven’t seen a demonstration of), it’s not a major feature.
I don’t know why they just didn’t add it to the ‘iPod’ range.
Maybe you missed the first video on the iPhone web site? The iPhone is fundamentally a phone, it has the features of the iPod and other PDAs added to it, but at the end of the day its designed to make calls. The phone isn’t the most interesting part of it which is why it’s not getting much attention.
Because that would be seriously underselling it, it only has 8GB of storage because fitting a HDD in it would’ve made it bigger, and it’s already quite big. I expect Apple have plans for a widescreen iPod with a HDD sometime down the line, but to bring one out now would be suicidal to the iPhones success.
It does everything. And it’s very smart. Any qualms ppl may have (EDGE not fast enough, certain boondoggles and glitches) would be shot to hell if I went from my iPhone back to the phone I was using just yesterday. Apples and Jupiter, people. It’s not just hype…the people I’ve seen walkin’ around w/ ‘em so far (not many, but enough) are satisfied customers of the 21st century.
A computer in my pocket indeed. Any other “smartphone” is totally idiotic in comparison, and I’m damn glad I waited three years to go from one of the smartest “regular” phones out there (SonyEricsson Z520) to this.
Damn skippy, the iPhone is the future of the Internet.
…I should say that I posted that last comment from my old workhorse desktop PC in my home office @ 2:15am. This one, however, is straight from the iPhone, and I’ll give a timerstamp when I’ve finished: let’s keep the 30-hour oldness and learning curve of glass typing surface in mind (not to mention, I am a GIRL…LOL).
Complete with starting timer, hand-keying URL, waiting for site load, scrolling through loads of misinformed statements (snrkkz), entering ID and the post text itself, then hitting send and “Home” button (the entire process so edgy and rad), flipping from landscape to vertical, and checkin’ the timer: 7 min 52.3 sec
Can’t wait till next week when I’m USED to it!!! :-D
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