iPhone APB: Walt already has one
Catching a collective "Ugh!" from tech media everywhere (except maybe David Pogue), the inimitable Walt Mossberg already has his review iPhone as of this morning, which he apparently wasn't under embargo to discuss since he blurted as much out during The Chronicle's Presidents Forum. Apparently Walt "[doesn't] know whether [he'll] give it a good review or not," but is rarin' to go in testing its touchscreen keyboard, stating, "I can tell you that in the first hour it works a little better than I thought, but I'm still not sure it works as well as a regular keyboard -- and the first hour is not a very fair test, so I'm going to keep going at it." Ok Walt, you keep on keepin' on with that device; you know how to reach your less privileged pals at Engadget if you want to let us hold the mythic machine for a moment, yeah?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Robert @ Jun 11th 2007 8:02PM
Lucky bastard.
carlo @ Jun 11th 2007 8:25PM
What a joke.
Billy Tickets @ Jun 11th 2007 8:45PM
You engadget guys really are Apple fanboys, you gotta be kidding tis first edition phone is so overhyped its a phone for the razr crowd ... lets talk about a real phone like the Nokia E90
now thats a phone worth talking about
http://nokiberry.blogspot.com/
Dahk @ Jun 11th 2007 10:19PM
Well the razr crowd has something for everyone and their moms.
I'm not too sure moms are willing to shell out 500 bucks for these babies yet for something their nails will own, before they make their first call.
Oh and someone will have been distracted by iKool =P
Randal Bird @ Jun 12th 2007 12:51AM
Hmmm, how did Walt get his arm so contorted to have his hand behind his head like that? Lousy photoshopchop....
TheWirelessWizard @ Jun 12th 2007 12:18PM
Being a certifiable geek myself I can tell you that, for the most part, geeks don't get it. This phone will be a smash hit despite its lack of HSPDA, an SDK or any other irrelevant set of initials.
After 25 years of building businesses in the wireless industry I believe that I've got a bit of credibility here - I've owned, carried and helped design cell phones and systems since (OMG, I can't believe I'm about to say this) before many of you were born... or at least before you started high school. That's right - I've had a phone in my car, backpack (never a briefcase) or pocket for - are you sitting down - 30 years.
If you want the full opinion check out my blog - I just wrote a piece called "The Geeks Don't Get It - 10 Reasons The iPhone Will Be A Smash Hit."
Find it here:
http://www.thewirelesswizard.com/tips-tricks-shortcuts/2007/6/11/the-geeks-dont-get-it-10-reasons-the-iphone-will-be-a-smash-.html
Omagus @ Jun 12th 2007 1:40PM
Hey Apple, I'll review it for you too.
db @ Jun 12th 2007 6:44PM
I wouldn't exactly say that the iPhone is for the RAZR crowd because even though the RAZR (when it was first released) wasn't as expensive as the iPhone, as nice and thin as it was, most people I knew still wouldn't buy it because of the price. It wasn't until the price of the RAZR dropped considerably, that everybody from moms and dads, to even kids had one. The iPhone is starting out at an even higher price tag and somehow I just don't see it ever dropping in price (does the price on any Apple product ever go down?)