“Here’s an overview of what the iPhone does by feature set: iPod music, iPod video, web, email and messaging, PDA and phone features, followed by some overall impressions and a listing of features it is missing when compared to the high end of smartphones priced closer to $1000,” Daniel Eran Dilger writes for AppleInsider.
“The iPhone is simply the most incredible piece of consumer hardware I’ve ever touched. In working with it, it repeatedly occured to me that I simply could not have imagined this could exist today. I work with a lot of consumer devices for clients, so I’m familiar with the hardware and software powering the highest end gadgets. The iPhone simply embarrasses my own expertise, which I am usually loath to admit,” Dilger writes.
“Last year, I described a fantasy version of what Apple’s sixth generation of the iPod could deliver in the wish list article ‘Generation 6 iPods,’ giving it a large display, mobile messaging abilities, a camera, an organizer and journaling features. What Apple delivered in the iPhone was simply beyond what I had imagined to be possible,” Dilger writes.
Dilger writes, “What is it that makes the iPhone so revolutionary? More than any one thing by itself, it’s the interplay of hardware and software features that all integrate together to make the iPhone a seemingly impossible reality.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Steve” for the heads up.]
We’ll comment as soon as we finish whittling off the plastic around our Etymotic Research ER-6i earbud plugs, so we can actually fit them into Apple iPhone’s non-standard, extremely tiny headphone jack…
Strangely quiet so far. Here we are, Tuesday, and no statements from Microsoft. No comments from Motorola. No comments from Palm. Nobody. The must be in shock still………
Damned straight.
He’s going to need a wet wipe and a cigarette after that review.
Mac Daily,
Great article comment. Seems as much as Steve and co. do incredible things, they sure do them their own way, don’t they?
The review is right on the money
I agree wholeheartedly. This product is amazing, and changes the world of phones, iPods, computers, and anything else that uses a human interface. Activated mine in about two minutes. Everyone who sees it is just blown away.
they better keep quiet, the iPhone has more (new) users in a few days, than Palm or Windows mobile in a quarter.
haha, “the most expensive phone in the world ??”
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He’s going to need a wet wipe and a cigarette after that review.
Eponysterical.
effwerd:
Indeed!
(NSFY)
Well, all things in perspective, the iPhone is “seemingly impossible” for the handset industry, but is really not so seemingly impossible in the context of Apple’s hardware/software evolution.
A focused OS X inside a touch-interface iPod? Seems quite a logical next step to me.
Not that I’m not impressed. I’m just sayin’ . . .
Have you noticed in general less traffic on MDN?
I think that the folks at MDN are all home (or wherever) playing with their new iPhones. Not that I wouldn’t if I had one. (Damn you AT&T for no coverage where I am!)
justified,
jawohl!
I’ve never owned a cell phone and never will, but I’m yearning for the next-generation, touch-screen, 100 GB iPod!
anybody’s email down? I’m in Phoenix.
My Edge was down yesterday, but I live around so many wi-fi hotspots that it didn’t really matter. It started working again late last night.
Looks like those fat iPhone profit estimates finally have the stock rising.
Easter Egg:
“Even the icons are roughly drafted to suggest they were sketched out by hand.”
AAPL is up over 5 dollars today. Nice.
Just thought of a way to improve the contacts list based on Dan’s article.
Why not have cover-flow for contacts? Yeah it would be a pain in the ass to get pictures of everyone in your address book if you didn’t already have them, but it would be much easier to find someone’s info.
Dontcha think?
@ ballonknot
I agree that viewing the Contacts and especially the Favorites in the Cover Flow format would be so cool.
A very thorough review. As for the headphone jack, there are already a couple of adopters available for it, which might be better than whittling all your current plugs.
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Tom sez: “…there are already a couple of adopters available for it, which might be better than whittling all your current plugs..”
I think not…the adapters could put some undue stress on the jack rishing internal injury.
I think the whittling solution is a more sound solution.
The iPhone is a beautifully-designed, very advanced product. But to call it “seemingly impossible” just underscores how pussy-whipped by rampant mediocrity everybody really is. There’s nothing “impossible” about the iPhone except the reality that nobody but Apple (evidently) really gives a shit about real innovation as long as they can make money selling boring, cheap plastic gizmos.
What goes around comes around: Calligraphy class in college and Macintosh fonts; Pixar and subtle iPhone animations….
Outstanding review and critique from Daniel Eran Dilger – our favorite tech writer. Don’t miss his <a >The iPhone Threat to Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, Real, BREW, Symbian</a> – brilliant stuff. MW: “research” – you’ll see,
Don’t miss his The iPhone Threat to Adobe, Microsoft, Sun, Real, BREW, Symbian
I’m all thumbs today.
The Professor:
“…the adapters could put some undue stress on the jack rishing internal injury. I think the whittling solution is a more sound solution.”
The adapter is nothing more than a jack with a recessed enclosure so it fits into the housing. I fail to see how this applies any undue stress.
If you’re referring to simply the extended length of the jack, both adapters I’ve seen have a flexible neck between the male and female component. This likely serves as a “shock absorber.”