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I usually never get swayed one way or another by critics or analysts until I actually try out the product or service, but I do have to make an exception with the iPhone. Your above perspective is a bunch of bull considering you've never actually used one – how in the world could you make a judgment on a product or service, and even more incredulously, make “informed” recommendations to others?! I am absolutely amazed by how you actually manage to stay in business with such callous disregard.

I don't agree with even one statement in your above perspective – including the moronic comment about lawsuits from parents about kids getting into accidents as they look at the iPhone to type. Ever tried typing something while driving even on a tactile keyboard, Mr. Enderle? I do that all the time (yes, I am aware it's dangerous) and unless you kinda guess where the letters are, it's nearly impossible to type without looking at the screen/keyboard! Entirely capricious and arbitrary statements only meant to gain more hits to your web site and possibly get someone dumb enough like Ashley Phillips to excercise your opinion in the mainstream news media.

As for the fact that the iPhone is “slick” (talk about a perfect pun!) and would damage easily, all I need to say to that is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czCCavcnNd8&NR=1

Talk about John Gruber hitting the nail on the head about you!

Rob, you are the tech industry's definition of “moron”.

I was right, this guy is clueless…

Or, is this “review” just based on PR materials?

So if Mr. Enderle gave the iPhone nothing BUT praise (and if you read the article you would see he complimented Apple a lot), then it would pass as reliable journalism?

Talk about irony.

Care to elaborate? The fool is someone that flames without information to backup their statement. And that would be you sir.

I am not an apple hater, but having used cell phones for quite a while and driving, nothing beats being able to just say call so and so at office out of your contacts and the phone does it.

I never have to take my eyes off the road.

BTW, I am in the process of moving everything over to mac since I am fed up with the crap the MS is putting out.

For the Iphone though, I am going to wait it out for gen 2.

Mike V.

And who needs to blind dial when in the car when you can just get a cell phone mount, place the iPhone in it and use your finger to tap on the contact in your favorites to call (and using either a bluetooth headset or speaker phone/mic to talk). Easy as 1-2-3. I use this way to play my iPod songs now in the car and the iPhone looks to be exactly the same.

I don't understand why all this Apple hate is passing as reliable journalism…

Everything they said just makes them look foolish and uninformed.

Sad this passes for journalism or enlightened commentary.

The applications available for it should not only be more functional, but more variety of them as well.

The size should hopefully become smaller as well.

The big thing for me is the battery. If I can't replace the battery easily, then this is not a long term phone, nor is it practical for business trips.

Here is one question I haven't seen come up:

AT&T uses SIM cards. Where is your SIM card going to go on this phone? Is it even going to use one?

$500 is way too much for this phone though. And It makes me nervous that they are working on the second generation already.

As for waiting for version 2, I wholeheartedly agree. I was going to get one, but seeing the limitations as more information got out forced me to change my mind. I ended up getting an HTC/AT&T 8525 windows mobile phone refurbed for $99. Can't beat that price.

One of my biggest issues is that the Iphone for now does not allow “third party apps”. I use voice command extensively with my SX66 and now the 8525 to call people out of my contacts list while I drive. This is the only way to do this with these devices.

Mike V.