OK, so, like many of you, I managed to get my hands on an iPhone this weekend. No, I didn’t buy one, but my friend did. He loves it so far. Me, I’m still not convinced. The touch-screen keypad is not as bad as I feared – but it’s still not as good as a [...]
Archive for the ‘Mobile phones’ Category
I want a noPhone
July 5, 2007
Mobile Advertising – What’s the Rush?
June 27, 2007
There’s a lot of talk about it, but I don’t see the need to rush into Mobile advertising, especially since it seems consumers don’t like it. Don’t get me wrong, especially with the intro of the iPhone and more handheld internet devices surely on the way, it’s going to be a big space…someday. For the [...]
Walt Mossberg Loves the iPhone
June 26, 2007
In a nutshell: “despite some flaws and feature omissions, the iPhone is, on balance, a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer” after spending some time getting used to it, the lack of a tactile keyboard is “a non-issue” “major drawback: the cellphone network it uses. It only works with AT&T (formerly Cingular)” “uses a pokey network [...]
iPhone will still suck…
June 19, 2007
Brief follow-up to yesterday’s iPhone rant, when I said the iPhone will suck because it lacks a tactile keyboard, it’s on a 2.5G network, it’s Cingular only, and development is closed. 3 more reasons have come to my attention since then: 1. It lacks GPS capability. For a $500 phone, how retro! A terrible blow [...]
iPhone – hit or miss?
June 18, 2007
The waiting’s almost over. The iPhone’s finally almost here – the official release date is June 29th. Will it be a smash hit, or abysmal failure? (Or both?) I tend to think the iPhone’s gonna suck, here’s why in a nutshell: No tactile keyboard – the keyboard is mechanical-only. I have one of these on [...]