TIME Magazine reviews Apple iPhone: 'The best phone that anybody has
ever made, a marvel'
Sunday, July 01, 2007 - 12:55 AM EDT
Regarding the Apple iPhone, "Steve Jobs has said, repeatedly, that
this is the best iPod that Apple has ever made, and it is. It's also
the best phone that anybody has ever made," Lev Grossman reports for
TIME Magazine.
"E-mail and web-browsing are unbelievably great. Ditto the crisp music
and video playback. Everybody I called with the iPhone remarked on the
crispness and clarity of the audio. For the iPhone, Apple has brought
to market a revolutionarily smart, sensitive touchscreen and created
an entirely new user interface to match it, all in one go, so
seamlessly that my 3-year-old daughter - and I apologize for going to
this place, but the fact is striking nonetheless - had no trouble
unlocking the iPhone and dialing with it (even though she believed
that she was playing a musical instrument)," Grossman reports.
"The user interface is crammed with smart little touches - every
moment of user interaction has been quietly stage-managed and
orchestrated, with such overwhelming attention to detail that when the
history of digital interface design is written, whoever managed this
project at Apple will be hailed as a Michelangelo, and the iPhone his
or her Sistine Chapel (Steve Jobs can be Pope in this scenario),"
Grossman reports.
"The hype for the iPhone has been so relentless - witness the
screaming Yahoos outside the Apple store - that to praise the phone
feels a bit like you're falling for a sales pitch. Resist the
temptation. This thing is a marvel," Grossman reports.
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