Baig, Mossberg, and Pogue review the iPhone, we sit quietly weeping

The three heavy-hitters have already reviewed the iPhone and were all, unsurprisingly, pleasantly surprised. Baig likes GPS and the 2.0 update. He couldn’t get 3G everywhere, which is a huge issue for some users.

Pogue has been rolling in a field of iPhones for months now and he really likes it… except the 3G part.

There is, however, a catch: you don’t get that speed or those features unless you’re in one of AT&T’s 3G network areas — and there aren’t many of them.

Finally, Mossberg says the battery is hitting about 4 hours with 3G running, which is pretty paltry. Hmmm… the 3G in iPhone 3G is what’s holding the bugger back. Maybe we should all go back to EDGE.

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Shawn Farner (Who am I?)

I don’t know, I find it hard to believe that an Apple product could be over-hyped.

 
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gi joe (Who am I?)

4 hours! and you can’t swap the battery?
maybe i will need to buy 5 of them.
line my belt with’em so it looks like Batman’s utility belt.

TO THE APPLEMOBILE!

 
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Charles Ditzel (Who am I?)

There are other things happening in the world. I use the Samsung Instinct as a new phone benchmark that has number of features not found on the iPhone. For starters, useful (real) GPS on the phone. A user replaceable battery. Expandable memory (based on off-the-shelf MicroSD card). Thousands of Java mobile applications (open architecture). Option to use stylus or finger. Streaming TV. Mobile Radio. Camera video capture. Voice commands. Tactile feedback. - just a few things. I think it serves readers to compare and contrast these two phones - which each do some things very well. However - my money is on Samsung.

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