We’ve got the iPhone videos right here.
Mind you, so does everyone else. But I need something to make you click and come to shey.net. Please don’t hate me.
At any rate, David Pogue and Walt Mossberg have both done video reviews of the new iPhone. The Pogue review is exceptionally good — I can’t understand why it’s only been viewed a couple hundred times on YouTube, but that may be a very short-term thing.
I can’t help but notice all the smudges on the screen, which I’ve imagined will be the main drawback of an iPhone — people like me who aren’t at peace with the fact that we are greasy animals will be carrying around little bottles of cleaner and chamois cloths and maniacally cleaning these things. The other drawback Pogue mentions in the best and most straightforward quote from his review: “you can get online in a wireless wifi hotspot, which is fast and satisfying, or via AT&T’s cellular internet network, which is slow and horrible.” My current phone has 3G and a very decent web browser, and I’ve adapted pretty well to doing most everything I need to with it.
On that note, despite having bought nearly every major Mac product of the past few years as soon as they came out — the Newton, the iMac, the original iPod, every Powerbook / MacBook since the G3, the Apple TV, even the Cube (boy, did I love the Cube) — I’m going to be sitting this one out for a little while. Why? I can’t bear right now the compromises I know will come of this being a first generation product. Despite the beauty of the interface and OS, it’s just bound to have some major limitations that are going to become apparent to me in the first few days of heavy use, and I just can’t bear to think of the iPhone as anything less than perfect. I’d rather wait a little longer until it truly is perfect, like my beloved iPod and Nano both are (in my opinion).
That doesn’t mean I won’t drool and make smudges all over my business partner Emil’s iPhone, as I’m sure he’ll get one this week.
Here’s Mossberg’s review. It’s great, also — I just don’t have much more to say.
June 26th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
wow, that is amazing stuff. Curious if it will expand to other networks.
June 26th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
Let’s go stand in line on Friday but tell people they can jump ahead of us as we’re there waiting for the rev.b iPhone.
June 27th, 2007 at 8:25 am
yatta — ha ha, that’s a funny idea. at least we’d meet a lot of mac-heads, or highly impressionable people we might be able to market our internet shows to. then we can go buy some wiis while the rest of the stores in new york are empty.
June 27th, 2007 at 9:10 am
The Pogue review is classic.
The lack of 3G bothers me a bit, but I’m used to EDGE speeds on my Pearl. The fact is that I’ll probably use wi-fi more, sitting at my couch, because I’m too lazy to walk upstairs to the computer.
I know I’ll also be there for Version 2. Just don’t tell my wife.
June 28th, 2007 at 9:14 am
Yes, but will it interface with my Apple Newton?????
crap.