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Early iPhone Reviews Express Cautious Optimism

June 26, 2007 10:21 PM Posted by mac

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:
"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.

The AT&T element is my deal-breaker. No amount of my "holy crap, it's an iPhone!" enthusiasm can replace reliable connections.

Via ZDNet