First "official" reviews of the iPhone are out

We got one of the limited edition iPhones here at Digphilly and...well, it sucks. Read why here - http://www.digphilly.com/portal/site/digphilly/
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John Kirk and Perry

Perry- if you think EVDO isnt fast enough for you. then you'll be crying with Edge.

John-yes EDGE covers more area but the iPhone is basically a media player/web broswer that DEPENDS on you having a fast network.

The only use of iPhone's functions is if you're going to be connected via Wi-Fi.

EXCHANGE PUSH-
ok for the mactards that don't understand- THEY DONT MEAN DESKTOP SYNCING WITH OUTLOOK! They dont even mean desktop re-direction on a computer left on and locked.
What it means is everything is automatically synced even when your computer is turned off, your contacts, calender, notes, everything!

POP will only allow you to DOWNLOAD your email, not sync, same with IMAP. And most businesses will not allow the IMAP ports open because its very easy to get hit with a denial of service attack with it open.

my 2 concerns are:
will this phone bluetooth with every car my present one does ? i.e. my new mercedes had to have a special module installed for it towork with that syncs with the Razor/ my lexus on the other hand has difficulty syncing with anything other than verizon...it does do my cingular razor eventually...also will companies connect with the email of the iphone like blackberrys?

The point of having all-in-one devices is that one needs not carry many small devices and have only one that does all (even with some cutbacks here and there). Now, if you lug around external packs or chargers, you're back to square one as instead of carrying a cellphone and an ipod you carry an iphone and external batteries or charger. And you pay a lot more for that.

So the problem isn't battery life, it's bulk? Double battery life is a solution, but infinite battery life is not? This issue will apply to like 1% of the buying population to begin with. This is what we call straining to make something an issue when it's not.

@ 21

that's what we call sweeping the problem under a rug.
battery packs make a small device big, and they actually contribute to the demise of the on-board battery. I don't call that a solution.

Marc: Get an iPod battery pack. Works through the dock connector. Same principle as an extra battery, but even better because you can get a AA battery pack and have (theoretically) infinite battery life.

There are a few reasons to hold off on the iPhone, but battery is not one of them.

It always annoys me when people who don't have to live within real world constraints call the compromises of other "stupid or foolish". Apple negotiated with both AT&T and Verizon (and perhaps others) to get the best deal they could get. Verizon has publicly stated that they declined Apple's offer because they did not want to make some of the concessions that Apple demanded. As you can see from the rollout, AT&T is bending over backwards to meet Apple's specifications for the iPhone.

AT&T has both Edge and 3G, but it's 3G network does not have great coverage. I'm sure in a perfect world, Apple would have preferred to roll out the phone to all carriers at the highest bit rate. But using an exclusive contract as leverage, Apple has gotten AT&T to do things the "Apple" way. And I'm sure Apple was not happy with the speed of the network, but there was a little thing called "reality" that they had to deal with. No matter how good Apple is, they can't just wish communication towers into existence.

Apple is counting on the Wi-Fi to make up for the slow Edge speeds. But if the slow speed is a deal-breaker for you, so be it. But don't think that Apple made a stupid decision to use Edge. They wouldn't have gotten as good a deal if they had used Verizon and they wouldn't have had nearly the coverage if they'd used 3g. But don't criticize Apple for living in the real world just because you live in a fantasy world.

I think they could come straight out and tell me that there is a 95% change the iPhone will take a crap on my desk when I wasn't looking and I would still want one. I'm totally bought into the hype.

#15:

No, since the iPhone has to be FCC approved, I can assure you that it most certainly is not just "software disabled". Nice try, though.

And, for the record, I would absolutely love to be wrong.