David Pogue of the New York Times turn out a mini-musical for this latest video podcast episode. I personally find Pogue’s cheesy videos to be really charming — yes, they’re hokey, but they’re also fun and informative. It’s also the sort of thing you won’t find in other mediums — a real Internet original. Visit site »
The Times’ tech columnist answers tons of questions about the iPhone. Most of the answers, though, don’t reveal much we didn’t already know or assume. I was very dissapointed with one answer, though:
Do To Do items show up on the iPhone? No.
Bummer. On the other hand, there’s this:
Are there any secret features? When the screen is off, the glossy black glass becomes a handy makeup mirror. Visit site »
Pogue’s video review of the iPhone is cute and funny. If you like gadgets and you don’t subscribe to his podcast, get on it already. Good stuff. Visit site »
The New York Times’ David Pogue gets his review out first, and it’s generally very positive. He notes that the network is slow as shit (duh, it’s EDGE), and that the keyboard does take some getting used to (but says that it works quite well once you learn to trust it), and it stupidly doesn’t have MMS (which, frankly, is going to be a huge dissapointment to buyers who don’t realize it’s not there, given that every cheap-ass phone on the market has it and a ton of people use it every day), but glows and glows about basically every other aspect of the device.
But even in version 1.0, the iPhone is still the most sophisticated, outlook-changing piece of electronics to come along in years. It does so many things so well, and so pleasurably, that you tend to forgive its foibles. In other words, maybe all the iPhone hype isn’t hype at all. As the ball player Dizzy Dean once said, “It ain’t bragging if you done it.” Visit site »
Hard to argue with Pogue’s dedication here. THis guy has seemingly spent the last week doing nothing but trying to get answers to all the ambiguity Jobs left over the iPhone. I think my favorite part of this one is where Steve says, “Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain.” Indeed. Visit site »
David Pogue has a lot of iPhone questions here — and most of them don’t have the answers you want to hear. And yet, I’ve already set my $500 aside. Sad, but true. Visit site »