Engadget agrees:<p><i>We're not going to beat around the bush -- in our approximation, the iPhone 4 is the best smartphone on the market right now. The combination of gorgeous new hardware, that amazing display, upgraded cameras, and major improvements to the operating system make this an extremely formidable package.</i><p><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/iphone-4-review/" rel="nofollow">http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/22/iphone-4-review/</a>
Anybody notice that this is the first time in recent memory that Apple has given the phone to bloggers outside of Baig, Pogue and Mossberg, prerelease? Looks like they sent one to Engadget and Boing Boing.<p>There is a gadget blog, however, that's (not-so) curiously absent from the list...
I ordered a Droid Incredible at the beginning of June and it still hasn't shipped. I think I'll just get the iPhone 4 instead and return the Incredible when it does finally show up (I apparently can't cancel the shipment, I have to return it).
Offering an stunning device like this for $199 and $55 per month will likely result in an extended period of short supplies. Most people are accustomed to paying this for much lesser phones.<p>Apple is fighting with both hands tied behind their back by limiting availability to one carrier in the US, though.
It's amazing that they didn't mention android once in the article. Seems like an important thing to leave out of a review of a product in a competitive space.
I was really looking forward to iPhone 4, but now after upgrading my 3GS to iOS 4.0 I'm not sure why I would upgrade. It's really that good.<p>Which is great from a longevity point of view, but not from a gadget-lust point of view. I still have over a month to decide anyway, as they don't come out in Australia until late July. Unless they're delayed, like the iPad was.<p>First world problems...
Classic Mossberg review - thumbs up of course! I really wonder why Apple wants to hide specs for another 40 some days. I really hope there's a ATT alternative states-side. And 3g is old news, when do we get to use Clear 4g or something along those lines?
And yet for making phone calls there still isn't "an app for that."<p>What intrigues me is that there have been zero rumors (from any of the sites I frequent) about Apple investing in or starting its own wireless carrier. Since they're not well known for giving up control over user experience it only makes sense that <i>something</i> along these lines has to have at least been considered.<p>The telecom space is so ripe for competition in the US. It's a shame that the amount of capital required is so monumental. Can you imagine a wireless carrier that had good coverage, customer service, and billing practices?
He actually says "I'd say that Apple has built a beautiful smartphone that works well, adds impressive new features and is still, overall, the best device in its class". The tone just seems different from the submission.<p>Got a chuckle at this (he's talking about the "retina" display) - "I don't know how it compares with the human retina, but I do know that, just as Apple claims, text on the screen shows no jagged lines, even when expanded to giant size"<p>Yuk yuk. I picture someone zooming into a fractal, desperately trying to get to the end. Mossberg is hardly the first person who has exploded a vector graphic (in this case fonts) looking for the pixels, as if it demonstrates something about the display.
Umm I have to disagree. The lack of a notification bar / system, widgets really detract. I think the over glossed UI is getting stale. I think the new design is worse than the old. It looks like something LG was making a few years ago. People calling it "gorgeous" are fan boys sorely in denial. It's a brick. A shiny brick but still a brick. It feel cold and sharp in your hands just like MBPs (not a compliment).<p>The screen is not huge revolution it's slightly more res than has been going into pretty much every smart phone for a year. Telling the difference between those resolutions at that scale is nearly impossible.<p>I just don't see anything to be impressed by blockier design, OS upgrades that still doesn't catch Android in core functionality, and not to mention ATT.