I’m writing about the Apple iPhone for Friday’s Republic, putting me in an august company of gushing fans. Reviews appeared today from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Newsweek. So far, everyone loves it, with some reservations.
Engadget has a run-down of the caveats turned up so far. Chief beef from all over: No AT&T, no iPhone. You can’t buy the device as a wi-fi enabled pocket-sized Macintosh with a video iPod and a 2MB camera — but without contracting for a cellular phone and data plan. On the plus side, the Applefied monthly plans are robust and reasonably priced.
Biggest unnoticed beef? Perhaps because fish are not aware of the waters they swim in, no one in the enblogged globe seems to have complained that, because the device is activated and synced through iTunes, you cannot use an iPhone if you don’t own a Macintosh or Windows computer. Lachrymose Luddites and Unix eunuchs need not apply.
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Derek Burress says:
Fish are not aware of the waters which they swim? *laughs*
/inside joke
June 26, 2007 — 6:36 pm
Todd Carpenter says:
So when can we expect coverage of zillow.com results displayed on the iPhone?
I want one so badly, but can’t stomach a return to AT&T.
June 26, 2007 — 8:40 pm
Robert Kerr says:
I wish Apple luck, but when I see an iPhone, I see a very cool, neat device but with a minuscule screen, so small that it’s useless for any real work or even display.
I imagine after the novelty wears off, all the new iPhone owners will go back to taking their MacBooks with them just for the display acreage.
So now you’ve got a $500 phone with a terrible AT&T contract and you still need your laptop. I don’t see the upside, but I’ve been wrong before.
June 27, 2007 — 9:06 am