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June 12, 2007

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Mossberg Unplugged: iPhone is the next level of cell phones

Posted Jun. 12, ’07, 3:58 PM PT by Dan Moren
Category | iPhone

Walt MossbergIn the world of tech journalists, there’s one man who stands alone—a man at the pinnacle of his profession, with a quick, incisive mind and a deceptively meek appearance. But underneath that pleasant veneer lies the reckless heart of a rogue and scoundrel.

We’re talking, of course, about Steve Jobs’s number one homey, Walter S. Mossberg (the “S” is for “Sucka”). The Mossman snagged the first Apple TV anywhere in the world, and he appears to have likewise been blessed with the very first available iPhone as well. He showed off the gadget yesterday to a gathering of higher education leaders in Wahington D.C. and made some off-the-cuff comments about his testing thus far.

“I don’t know whether I’ll give it a good review or not,” he said, noting that he will use the phone for the next couple of weeks before writing his review. “I can already see some things I don’t like about it. I see some other things that I do like a lot about it.”
I look forward to the inevitable day when Mossberg plays an on-the-edge cop in some action flick.

Mossberg: “Good review, bad review—I could go either way. Don’t test me.”
Police Captain: “Damn it, Mossberg, you’re a loose cannon. You’re suspended indefinitely—turn in your badge and your gun.”

Back in reality, Mossberg discussed the importance of the iPhone’s much-ballyhooed text input mechaism.

“They are claiming that through clever software they have figured out a way for [typing] to be actually far more accurate and efficient than you think it will be, and I’m testing that proposition,” he said. “And I can tell you that in the first hour it works a little better than I thought, but I’m still not sure it works as well as a regular keyboard — and the first hour is not a very fair test, so I’m going to keep going at it.”
What a tease. I guess we’ll just have to wait for his review to know whether or not the iPhone is going to be everything that we’ve hoped and dreamed for ever since that very first moment that prehistoric man first attempted to make a phone call while he was online, and complained to his buddy Kronk that it was just too complicated.


3 Comments

Jack said:

1)Only people who think "regular keyboards" are any good are worried about the possibility of something being worse. I cannot stand those plastic keys, and there are more of us than you think.

2)It has been shown in studies recently that people often think something is superior when they are simply used to it.

3) A friend was at this event.

4) I can't stand Mossberg. I think he's heard us all say he's an Apple shill at this point so used this opportunity to say something that in his mind meant that he's going to give a fair review to a product, which of courst should go without saying.

June 12, 2007 7:40 PM
Kula bácsi said:

So Jobs' homey pushes an Apple product. Why I don't care...

June 12, 2007 11:05 PM
Andre Da Costa said:

Agreed Jack, he is a shill, and I don't mean it in a bad way. But come on, if Steve Jobs is gonna take you out to dinner after D5 his treat, obviously you are Apples shill. He was also able to use the iPhone for about an hour earlier this year.

June 13, 2007 7:24 AM

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