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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 3627468" data-attributes="member: 11760">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?No, the Mac OS calculator is unbelievably basic, too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> 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.</blockquote>

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