I am a firm believer in underpromise, overdeliver. When you overpromise or when the hype becomes too great, that’s when you will get some backlash over your product. Of course, in this case, it seems that the iPhone is meeting most of the expectations but failing at some others.
Overall, it gave a much needed scale down over what the iPhone is capable of. A good phone probably, just not quite up there yet. Here are the good firstI have to be honest that I was quite surprised the battery life was so good in the iPhone surpassing my skeptical expectations. But then again, it still isn’t replacable making it one of the failings if you ask me.
The on screen keyboard is supposedly quite good and according to WSJ, comparable to a Treo, now that is again another surprise factor to me. Lastly, the “sturdy” glass used instead of plastic was another triump apparently leaving very few smudges and was “scratch proof”. Not saying I am skeptical, but it defintely has not being abused enough if you ask me.
There are however a couple of rough edges such as simple things like cut and paste being lacking. Overall, I still don’t buy it and i do not like iTunes as an interface either.
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