iPhone Review From Newsweek

Steve Levy from Newsweek had a chance to talk with Steve Jobs and play with iPhone for a few weeks.

Here's a summary of his iPhone review:

Pros:
Superbly engineered, cleverly designed;
Setup is a snap;
Signing up for phone service is easily handled in a straightforward process through the iTunes store;
Stunning 3.5-inch display;
iPhone has an excellent implement of state-of-the-art features like integrating contacts with the phone function;
Visual Voicemail;
E-mail message content shows up vividly;
Safari Browser leaves competitors in the dust;
Very simple to send SMS;
Google Maps works wonderfully;

Cons:
Songs can't be used as ringtones;
Remains to be seen whether corporate information technology specialists will embrace the iPhone for their users;
Not the best iPod: Nano or Shuffle is still better for the gym and the 30 or 80Gb is better for heavy music users;
No instant messaging application;
Virtual keyboard is difficult to use;
Slow EDGE data network;
Fingerprints on the screen;

Interesting quotes from Levy's iPhone review:

"It's a superbly engineered, cleverly designed and imaginatively implemented approach to a problem that no one has cracked to date: merging a phone handset, an Internet navigator and a media player in a package where every component shines, and the features are welcoming rather than foreboding."

"During our iPhone conversation, however, Jobs professed that he wasn't concerned about inflated hopes, and certainly not whether he would meet his own projections of 10 million sold in 2008: "I think we're going to blow away the expectations."

iPhone to iPhone: Welcome to the iSocial!

One thing the Zune does that an iPod or an iPhone can't do is exchanging content wirelessly between devices. The "Zune Social" has been largely criticized because of its limited functionality and its too limited customer base. But it seems that while Steve Jobs was laughing at the Zune to Zune sharing feature of Microsoft, his development team was working on an Apple version of the Social. The iSocial
At least, it's what we can understand from a filing dated September 1, 2006: "In one embodiment, one mobile device discovers another mobile device within its vicinity. The mobile devices can then wirelessly transmit data from one mobile device to the other," Apple wrote in the filing. "Typically, the mobile devices are associated with persons (users). The mobile devices, or their users, can control, request or influence the particular data content being delivered."
Some examples of specific media data that could be shared between the players include songs, albums, audiobooks, playlists, movies, music videos, photos, computer games, podcasts, audio and/or video presentations, news reports, and sports updates.
And this just a start, a soon as you have this type of feature implemented in all the devices, the possibilities are endless. Sharing contacts, word and excel documents, PDFs and bookmarks are only a few examples that could be added.
The 6G iPod should be based on OS X and could also be equipped with a Wi-Fi chip that would enable such a feature. Let's hope this won't end at the concept phase.
Source: Appleinsider