Apple iPhone 2G - Expert Reviews

Pros: Amazing design ; intuitive, fun interface ; great iPod functionality ; gorgeous 3.5-inch display ; good-looking e-mail messaging, voicemail interface ; easy to use

Cons: Slow Web surfing via EDGE network ; touch-screen keyboard has a learning curve ; disappointing battery life ; expensive

Verdict: The Apple iPhone is beautifully designed and a joy to use, although it's seriously hobbled by its glacial EDGE data network and disappointing battery life.

Review summary: Oh, and there are a few more sacrifices that will have to be made if you want to opt out of a "conventional" iPhone plan. You lose Visual Voicemail and you also lose the "free" 200 SMS messages that come with the cheapest iPhone plan...

Verdict: At time of launch, you only had the option of picking up one of the specially-designed iPhone plans for your newly acquired Apple cell phone. Following through on their original promise, AT&T will reportedly start to offer non-iPhone plans to iPhone ...

Verdict: Christopher Breen takes a look at a collection of four helpful Mail rules used in conjunction with Apple's Mail and the iPhone released as part of iPhone Mail Rules v1.0 from Automator.us.

Review summary: Among those who queued up on June 29 to buy an iPhone were several of our editors; we have been putting it to the test ever since.

Pros: Innovative design Good mobile Web browser

Cons: Expensive No third-party non-Web apps (like Word)

Verdict: So should you buy an iPhone? Sure, if you want to own a beautifully designed phone/Internet device/music player and are willing to put up with some occasionally exasperating problems. Everyone else, especially those who already rely on a PDA phone for ...

Review summary: Thousands (and thousands) of words, a handful of big, high-resolution demonstration videos, and a brutal stress test that will get the iPhone protected by PETA. Three (and a half) reviewers enter; one score leaves.

Verdict: There are a lot of things to love about the iPhone and a lot of things tohate. Accounting for every single usage pattern for the device is impossible,as everyone uses their phones in different ways, even among the techiecommunity. What constitutes a ...