NY Times’ Pogue reviews Apple iPhone: sleek, thin, fast, beautiful, simple; lives up to the hype "Apple's iPhone "is so sleek and thin, it makes Treos and BlackBerrys look obese. The glass gets smudgy—a sleeve wipes it clean—but it doesn’t scratch easily. I’ve walked around with an iPhone in my pocket for two weeks, naked and unprotected (the iPhone, that is, not me), and there’s not a mark on it," Ddavid Pogue reports for The New York Times.

"But the bigger achievement is the software. It’s fast, beautiful, menu-free, and dead simple to operate. You can’t get lost, because the solitary physical button below the screen always opens the Home page, arrayed with icons for the iPhone’s 16 functions," Pogue reports.

"E-mail is fantastic. Incoming messages are fully formatted, complete with graphics; you can even open (but not edit) Word, Excel and PDF documents," Pogue reports.

"The Web browser, though, is the real dazzler. This isn’t some stripped-down, claustrophobic My First Cellphone Browser; you get full Web layouts, fonts and all... Apple says one battery charge is enough for 8 hours of calls, 7 hours of video or 24 hours of audio. My results weren’t quite as impressive: I got 5 hours of video and 23 hours of audio, probably because I didn’t turn off the phone, Wi-Fi and other features, as Apple did in its tests. In practice, you’ll probably wind up recharging about every other day," Pgue reports.

"Tapping the skinny little virtual keys on the screen is frustrating, especially at first [but] once you stop stressing about each individual letter and just plow ahead, speed and accuracy pick up considerably," Pogue reports. "Maybe all the iPhone hype isn’t hype at all. As the ball player Dizzy Dean once said, 'It ain’t bragging if you done it.'”

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  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 6/26/2007 09:27:00 PM