All Articles Tagged pogue

iPhone Vetoes Carrier Veto Power

Pogue


figure 1: It is with a heavy heart that Pogue informs us that the latest Windows Mobile phone from T-Mobile blows.

David Pogue has an excellent article on how the iPhone really broke down a bunch of barriers in the smartphone world, the best he claims, is “the way Apple took veto power away from the cellphone carriers.”

So yeah, that’s just the first sentence. The unfortunate part of the article is that most of the rest of it is a review for a T-Mobile Windows Mobile device. The good news is this: if you want to think about how awesome your iPhone is compared to a poorly-implemented Windows Mobile device, the second half of his article will really interest you. There’s a silver lining in every cloud, right?



First Reviews Are In

Pogue

It looks like David Pogue (of the NY Times) and Steven Levy (of Newsweek) have finished their respective reviews. The gist of it is this: all the hype? They say it’s more or less well-deserved.

Read the rest of this entry »