Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Wednesday, 09 July 2008 23:03
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Warne also railed against Apple choosing local journalist favourites to get a sneak preview of the iPhone, of which he wasn’t one, and clearly, of which I wasn’t one either. Hey Apple, why not? Meanies. :-)
One of Apple’s chosen favourites is tech journalist Stephen Fenech of the Daily Telegraph, although the link I have here is to the
Courier Mail, another News Ltd Publication that has reprinted the story.
It's easy to see why, his review will likely get printed in all News Ltd newspapers across Australia today, showing Apple is still the undisputed master of amazing free publicity, which of course I am giving them here in this article, too.
It’s a good review, going over many of the features. It even gushes here and there, although I’ve been guilty of that in reviews of the iPhone, simply because it’s so nice.
Aside from the new features, the review tells us about the iPhone’s “multi-touch” features to pinch photos, or to find Google Maps, or the iPod capabilities, as if Australians hadn’t seen these features before.
Of course Australians have been able to play with these features ever since the iPod Touch was launched last year, and given the iPod Touch is an iPhone without the phone, these features aren't a surprise to iPod Touch owners or anyone who's played with one.
That said, many people may not have ever seen the iPod Touch, and may never have had the chance to play with an original iPhone previously, so it will be news to them and they are, after all, still very, very cool features indeed that no other brand of phone offers or does anywhere near as well.
Fenech ends his review by saying that the iPhone 3G may be Apple’s finest hour, but I suspect Apple’s finest hour will come with the successor to the iPhone 3G sometime in 2009 when we’ll hopefully get faster 3G speeds, video conferencing, cut and paste, notes synchronisation, a removable battery, proper Bluetooth, tethering and 64GB of memory (among other stuff) and better value voice and data plans (although this last item is beyond Apple’s control).
Some of the best parts of the new iPhone are available for the old iPhone: MobileMe and the App Store which will come courtesy of the iPhone 2.0 firmware.
One question no-one has answered for those with hacked iPhones is whether or not we’ll be able to upgrade to the iPhone 2.0 software and then choose to “lock” it to one of the three local carriers or just keep the damn thing unlocked.
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