Jun

26

First iPhone Review a Fake

June 26, 2007 |

Update: In the comments, Fleishman explains that he did not intend his article to be a review but that the New York post labeled it is such.

Gfrptr_2The New York Post’s Glenn Fleishman pretends to be the first “journalist” reviewing the iPhone:

The iPhone crams so many different features into its slightly bulky form that it can only excel at one, and compromise on the rest. After spending some time, albeit briefly, with the iPhone, it’s clear to me that Internet and e-mail are the parts that suffered.

Seems Fleishman got to play with it for a minute and read the press releases. Maybe a real journalist let him look at it. Who knows. The review is as shallow as it gets. The picture on the website doesn’t even show the YouTube widget and still has the “Cingular” monkier on it.

There is nothing in this “review” that is not already standard knowledge and the reviewer wasn’t even aware of the prices of the data plans:

Monthly charges haven’t been announced, but judging by comparable offerings from AT&T and other carriers, it should run you at least $50 per month in voice service and $40 per month in data service. That adds more than $2,000 to the iPhone’s price tag over two years even before buying music or movies!

Slightly off, he is…

The sad thing is, Wired’s Epicenter blog seems to take him serious.

Technorati tags: , , ,


Share This

Related Posts

Comments

2 Comments so far

  1. Glenn Fleishman on June 27, 2007 12:18 pm

    Hi, article author here. What I wrote wasn’t intended as a review, but the Post chose to label it as such because, well, I guess I ‘reviewed’ the features of the iPhone. Nonetheless, I was trying to explain why iPhone “1.0″ would be dramatically improved.

    In my original draft, I pointed out that the iPhone is clearly the best cell phone ever released, even though I’d only used a pre-release version six months ago at Macworld Expo’s press briefings.

    But the iPhone has several flaws, the most serious of which is the use of the EDGE standard for cell networking, partly because AT&T hasn’t announced a Wi-Fi hotspot service plan to go with the iPhone. All the reviews out from people who, you know, actually used an iPhone recently confirm that the worst part of the iPhone is EDGE support.

    So, if you’re about to drop $500 to $600 on an iPhone, and sign up for roughly $2,000 worth of service fees (even if you’re moving those service fees from an existing cell carrier), wouldn’t you rather have a phone that handles faster 3G networks? In six months, the next iPhone will do that. Maybe longer, but I doubt it given competition in the market, and AT&T’s own 3G plans.

    One can always say, “wait” on any technology. But my article wasn’t about waiting for an arbitrary reason. It was about waiting for a little more sophistication in the Internet part, and for 3G. Had AT&T included a reasonable Wi-Fi hotspot plan with the iPhone, I would have felt that I was off-base, as most people out and about would be using those Wi-Fi locations (10,000 in AT&T’s network) when they needed fast service, and EDGE when they needed ubiquitous service.

  2. Sylvester Munoz on March 24, 2008 3:30 pm

    cockcrowing grassweed doppler major broccoli omnivore selected wheelhouse
    A House in the Country
    http://www.sandstudios.co.uk

Name (required)

Email (required)

Website

Speak your mind