Word on the street

David Pogue of the New York Times has had an iPhone in his pocket for the last two weeks.
His favorable review of this new space age device highlights a few key things. AT & T's network is really slow - they are charging $US20 a month for unlimited internet - probably about as much as they can get away with! Imagine your vodafone 3G card when it reverts to 56kb - thats what viewing webpages is like. Luckily in WIFI hotspots it rocks.

No flash player is installed on the iPhone. My predicition is that this will come really soon. Theres no reason it can't be done after all the phone is running OS X - or is it? Apple has a pretty strong partnership with Adobe so I'm pretty sure they will be damn keen to get flash running on the device. They have You Tube so appear to be converting to the videos to their H .264 fancy format.

The development community is slowly discovering (via Flex) you can code an elegant interface with nice animating panels, fading messages etc in a handful of lines of mxml compared with a lot more in javascript/css . With the caching of the core UI components being built into future flash players I think this will push flash content ahead of AJAX style content and be especially usefully on low speed network powered devices .e.g. the iPhone.

Kudos to Apple for simplifying the signup process for the iPhone through their iTunes software.

This device can only get better and better. It will be really interesting to see if other Tech companies can keep up with the Apple innovation. As phone CPU's become more powerful overtime the elegance of the core OS will give Apple the flexibility to add some really cool things to this phone (I know the OS is becoming irrelevant on the desktop but on the phone it will add some core things that current phones just can't do). Imagine the phone running a webserver - I can think of some great applications straight away.

Will they do a nano version of the phone - I can't see why not unless the footprint is already stretched as it is. A smaller screen would have to be cheaper but I guess with a decent cpu, ram etc you may not save much money.

I can't see it being hard at all to crack the phone so it can run on any other GSM network - without the awesome visual voice mail though.