“Apple’s iPhone has arrived, brilliantly blending Internet features and next-generation iPod controls with the best cell phone I’ve seen,” Julio Ojeda-Zapata reports for The Pioneer Press.
“After test-driving one with remarkably few difficulties – pretty surprising for version-1.0 tech gear – I say get one if you can afford it, or if you’re due for a new phone and want the very best one,” Ojeda-Zapata reports. “The much-hyped iPhone isn’t perfect. There’s much I’d like to see in an iPhone 2.0. But I’ve been happier with the iPhone than with most of the tech gadgets I’ve tested in a decade as a technology writer – and there have been lots.”
Ojeda-Zapata reports, “The elongated, amazingly thin iPhone is a minimalist masterpiece with a glass touch display for most functions…”
Full review here.
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“That gorgeous glass alarmed me at first, given how famously scratch-prone video iPods are…”
“Famously”? Bunk. I have a 5.5G “video iPod” that gets tossed into a pouch on my backpack and bounced around with other small devices, and it still looks great. A caseless nano gets the same housing arrangement, and it ain’t complaining, either.
Magic word: built, as in built well.
Sure, he’s tested one, but does he plan to walk his talk and get one for himself?
I’ve not babied my iPhone (walking, biking, with phone, keys and change in my pocket). Thus far… not a scatch. Quite an amazing 1.0 product.
The thing most people do not get is that the iPhone 1.0 in your pocket will become the iPhone 2.0 over time with software upgrades through iTunes.
No need to wait, iPhone 1.0 will morph into iPhone 2.0 like magic.
Is that magic in your pocket or are you just happy to be an iPhone owner?
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That’s my newspaper dudes. They got it right on. The iPhone is amazing!
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“That gorgeous glass alarmed me at first, given how famously scratch-prone video iPods are…”
“Famously”? Bunk.
Agreed. But as I and others have stated several times, Apple products are held to higher standards than any other consumer device on the market (no one ever subjects as Razr or a Treo to a drop test or runs them over with a car just to see what happens). Cellphones and PDAs of all types get marred as they are subjected to use. Yet for some reason Apple’s products, even tho up until the iPhone they used the exact same materials, are not supposed to scratch at all.
The aspect that seems to stick in the craw of the naysayers? Apple’s products come thru these extreme tests with flying colours.
Magic Word: “cannot” as in competitors cannot seem to match Apple’s manufacturing prowess.
Look, iPod screens and chromed-back cases scratch if you sneeze on them, I’ve had five and that’s a reality. The new glass screen and matte aluminum back on iPhone should greatly help negate that problem.
“(no one ever subjects as Razr or a Treo to a drop test or runs them over with a car just to see what happens).”
True, but for most people I know, they learned to hate their RAZRs long before they would have ever subjected it to such conditions anyway.
Moo is a former RAZR owner and the proud owner of a new iPhone and loving it.
The biggest omission I’ve found in the iPhone so far is voice activated dialing. I bought one anyhow. As with many of iPhone’s shortcomings, it’s a software issue. I’m confident that Apple will, at some point, come out with an update that will address many of the issues reviewers seem to have with the product.
@ theome, Why do you expect Apple inc. to micmic other products?
You would need to activate the phone mode (by touch) in order to ask it to dial a number? you might as well touch the icon of the person while you are activating the phone section as it dials that person there and then.
Consider this, as you are talking to the person, the screen is switched off by the proxysensor, you then need to cancel the call which would have involved pressing a button with last centuries devices, but now all you do is touch the icon, while you are at it why not touch another icon to activate another call? why all this business of teaching your phone your accent so that it recognises your voice when you don’t need to?
Think carefully before you allow your tongue to run off with you!
If & when it is deemed that such a widget is required, the environment for that widget to function properly will have to be created and tested first before it can be released to the likes of you.
I have tried voice commands in the past & have given up after hours of training the appliance to recognise my voice, only to find it reacting to other voices, for example in a car or lift……Life is so short………it is a shame one cannot just go out there and get one.
I’m hoping for tongue activated dialing.
That’s one problem licked.
and spit or kiss dialing.
spit to call your boss, kiss to dial your girl friend.
@Crabapple.
Theome is correct. There is a need.
Think carefully before you write sh*t loads
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