January 10, 2007

The Apple iPhone : "The Holy Grail of Gadgets?"

I've been avoiding the iPhone buzz, mostly because it's pretty far from what we usually do here (i.e., religion, death and sex,) but it's been pegging the buzz-o-meter for several days now. Engadget notes:

CES may have been the big deal on the 8th, but as soon as Jobs took the stage at Macworld, any news coming out of CES suddenly didn't seem to matter a whole lot.
At any rate, here's some skinny on it:
A major Canadian newspaper has called it the holy grail of gadgets… Gizmodo nicknamed it the Jesus Phone. Apple’s iPhone launched by CEO Steve Jobs Tuesday during his Macworld keynote. The online buzz began immediately as people reacted to the details gleaned from live blogs of Jobs’ address.

There’s been some lavish praise in the tech and gadget blogs, particularly for the phone’s design. NextLust called iPhone “the sexiest thing we’ve seen today.” SciAm Observations summed the device up as “a juggernaut/vanity mirror/black hole into the matrix of iLife.”

The iPhone’s partnerships with Yahoo and Google for email, maps and web searching position it as “the latest Blackberry killer,” said ReadWriteWeb. Blackberry manufacturer RIM’s stock took a tumble yesterday, along with Palm. Gizmodo said “I have a bit of sympathy for our friends at RIM and Nokia.”

By Ragnar Danneskjold, Typical Bitter Gun-Clinger at 05:25 PM | |