For a techie site, that review doesn't really make him sound like someone with a lot of experience with smartphones. Backing up your e-mail from your desktop computer isn't a feature anyone with a smartphone would view as anything other than a giant step backwards.
And given his self-confessed problems with the keyboard, I'm confused how this is better than existing smartphone keyboards, which is a claim from Jobs that he mentions and appears to support.
The data plan he's excited about is laughably awful. Two hundred texts a month will be gone in a matter of days for smartphone users, if it takes that long.
The calendar function's inexplicable lack of a week view is a complaint of a lot of professionals -- but unmentioned in his review -- but will probably get fixed in the first software patch.
And does this guy even use Macs?
Coming from Apple, you would kind of expect to have a better looking app. The calculator app is just basic of basic.
No, the Mac OS calculator is unbelievably basic, too.
Same with the notes, it's very basic. In my opinion it's kind of cheesy, but what could you want.
This guy has no business making comments about other smartphones, since he's clearly not in the market for them and doesn't seem to have a real point of comparison. He seems to just be regurgitating Jobs' equally uninformed digs on smartphones.
The true test for the iPhone as a smartphone -- and not just as a really expensive upgrade to the Razr for teenagers and college students -- will be after working professionals have used it for a week or two. Right now, my professional friends are very lukewarm on it. One's talking about giving it to his high school age daughter.
