iPhone Reviews Are In, A Few Surprises

Jun 27 2007

Obviously the iPhone review embargo was lifted last night. I imagine Apple would have liked to hold coverage until the day of or the day before launch, but I have faith their marketing department knows what they’re doing. Perhaps they wanted to leave a little time to announce the Bluetooth earpiece and dock plus surprise functionality?

Anyhow, what I’ve found most surprising is the lack of virtual keyboard bitterness. I thought for sure it would be a problem, but other than Steven Levy the reviewers didn’t seem to have any real issues with it. The other surprise was learning there’s no stereo Bluetooth — for this next generation iPod, I had just assumed that functionality would be included. No surprises regarding the missing iChat and Flash. I imagine those services are on the way, just running behind schedule. Also, no surprise that the reviewers found EDGE to be slow.

Reviews:

(links via Engadget)

2 Responses for "iPhone Reviews Are In, A Few Surprises"

Kevin C. Tofel June 27th, 2007 at 11:42 am 1
I too was surprised at how well the keyboard seemed to work for everyone. Then I watched a new video on the Apple site that explains why it works so well. I won’t spoil the reason, just give the link: http://www.apple.com/iphone/usingiphone/keyboard_large.html
jon June 27th, 2007 at 2:13 pm 2
the iphone is annoying the heck out of me. also, i think its funny how there are so many obscure rules that apply, like ipod functionality requires activation, no sim card swapping, no upgrading for current go-phone users, their own data plan that really only adds visual voicemail in comparison…

i’m sticking with my Q until verizon has a blackberry curve, while i laugh at iphone users who avoid providers like verizon, when in reality they have just been backed into the same corner.