Steven Levy of MSNBC has published his review on his experience with the Apple iPhone. As with most reviews we’re seeing during this hyped-up pre-launch window, Steven takes a pretty positive position on the iPhone. Among his most notable comments, Mr. Levy states that he was able to get the iPhone up and running (and actually boosting his productivity) without having to read a single sentence of the instruction manual – such is the intuitiveness of the iPhone. And that is one of the iPhone’s most intriguing aspects – says Levy, “Apple has a history of using cutting-edge technology, slick design and friendly software to break the common logjam in which our machines have the capability to perform certain tasks, but developers haven’t figured out how to make the experience easy, even pleasurable, for users.” All this technology is out there, but most of it has not reached the common user, and the tech that has been incorporated into current handsets are merely that – incorporated. No thought to user experience, a kind of mish-mash of features crammed into a device just to say you have it.
There are faults, as you will likely see over the coming weeks, not just from official press, but from “street” users as well. Steven finds the keyboard a bit harder to use than Walt Mosberg did. But, aside from the reiterated foibles on AT&T’s EDGE network, Levy comes away impressed with the device.
And he makes an interesting point, Steven Levy says that, “Even those who never buy one will benefit from its advances, as competitors have already taken Apple’s achievements as a wake-up call to improve their own products.”
Find the Steven Levy review of the Apple iPhone here.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19444948/site/newsweek/page/0/