Comments on: 'WSJ', 'NYT' reviews say iPhone features overcome slow network

Walt Mossberg and David Pogue have posted their iPhone reviews after two weeks with the gadget, and despite reservations about the network speed, they like it.

[MaLvaDo39]

Wi-Fi

It's everywhere where I live and will have fast email and surfing
with it on the iPhone.

Edge may be used 10% of the time to pull up a sports score or
something when I might be in a wi-fi dead spot and need to
know something immediate.

As for Flash and Windows stuff, time for NEW technologies...
cough...H.264... cough...

Still, I can understand a revolutionary device not perfect, but
looks to be damn close. We'll see Friday!

[digiguy23]

No flash no Sale

I really think Apple should reconsider putting FLASH on the iPhone. I use Stickam alot and the possibilities of flash is endless. So I probably will not consider the iPhone unless there is flash.

[ShimonScherzer]

WiFi

You are absolutely right. Suggestion: go to www.wefi.com. You may like it.

[Xenu7-214951314497503184010868]

A Ferrari and a 15 mph Speed Limit

No point having a Ferrari if you can only drive it at 15 mph. As usual, weak infrastructure dooms innovation.

[jcnetdev]

i agree

Right on. Its amazing that one *little*, *tiny* oversight like this can ruin the phone experience for 90% of customers. The other 10% live near universal wifi (like the bay area) and don't need to worry about it.

Still, its maddening. I would love an iPhone and have no problem paying whatever the asking price is. But the internet speed renders most of the features nearly useless to me.

[demiphonic]

sad

hmmm that is sad... I think people will get annoyed with the slow speeds. I wonder what was the basis for not using faster tech for internet speeds in the first place? & can the copy & paste features be added with firmware? who knows…

I hope Apple has a plan :(

[Dennis Deveaux]

No GSM slot......BIG MISTAKE!!!!

Looks like it's true that the iPhone doesn't have a SIM slot -- or at least that's how I'm reading it. Two quotes:

"It only works with AT&T (formerly Cingular), won't come in models that use Verizon or Sprint and can't use the digital cards (called SIM cards) that would allow it to run on T-Mobile's network."

"A downside -- there's no easy way to transfer phone numbers, via AT&T, directly from an existing phone."

...in my opinion, this is a big mistake -- what are the folks who have a bunch of contacts on an older phone supposed to do? (especially if they can't sync it to a PC?)

Gee, might as well have made it a CDMA phone.

[Dennis Deveaux]

No external SIM card slot

....meant for the title to read "No external SIM card slot"

[Penguinisto]

Thank Heavens I live in a WiFi saturated town

Just one of many reasons I love the Pacific Northwest...

That aside, I find that it can be quite useful nonethless.

On balance, I wish someone would've handed it to an actual IT
guy doing IT things with it (ssh ferinstance, via Terminal), or at
least reviewed how it would/could mesh in with an IT company
network. It's cool that it had no probs tying into an existing
Exchange rig, but seeing how it would do in non-Exchange
environments would've been hella nicer.

As for the keyboard? Hey - if I can ditch the birth-contol-pill
sized push-down thumb-crampers that the Crackberries use, I'd
be a happy man.

/P

[ShimonScherzer]

WiFi

You may want to visit www.wefi.com...

[JMKarski]

iPhone

Lack of GSM and sim card is a major disadvantage for people traveling to Europe and using local sim cards for fraction of cost of roming.