Early iPhone Reviews Express Cautious Optimism
David Pogue from the New York Times and Walt Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal weigh in with early iPhone reviews.Pogue praises the iPhone's Web browser:
"This isn’t some stripped-down, claustrophobic My First Cellphone Browser; you get full Web layouts, fonts and all, shrunk to fit the screen. You scroll with a fingertip — much faster than scroll bars. You can double-tap to enlarge a block of text for reading, or rotate the screen 90 degrees, which rotates and magnifies the image to fill the wider view."Mossberg allays concerns about the iPhone's touchscreen interface:
"The iPhone's most controversial feature, the omission of a physical keyboard in favor of a virtual keyboard on the screen, turned out in our tests to be a nonissue, despite our deep initial skepticism."But both reviews zero in on a major issue surrounding the iPhone: AT&T's cellular service.
Pogue writes:The AT&T element is my deal-breaker. No amount of my "holy crap, it's an iPhone!" enthusiasm can replace reliable connections."In a Consumer Reports study, AT&T’s signal ranked either last or second to last in 19 out of 20 major cities. My tests in five states bear this out.
Via ZDNet
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