Finally this morning my list of recent unread posts in Google Reader contained only one iPhone headline. I get it everybody. The iPhone shipped. Amazingly the world is still spinning on its axis.
(Scoble coming out with his iPhone. Source: Newseum)
The common response seems to be that Apple has raised the bar for mobile phone design and experience, so expect to see a competitive leap forward from other handset makers. This is from an email I got this morning:
Simple things like muting, speakerphone, 2-way conferencing, switching to vibrate (a dedicated physical toggle!), and visual voicemail: they got the simple stuff nailed
There are a lot of things that phones should do well that they just don’t. My fingers are crossed that we’ll see a new trend of phones that nail the simple stuff.
They aren’t so enthusiastic at pcmag.com:
The most over-hyped product of the decade is a sublime media player and a flawed phone.
Well, nothing’s perfect at first. The iPhone’s been a long time in coming – it was predicted in 1979 … (nice hat logo, by the way)