Round up of review’s of Apple’s iPhone 3G from Baig, Pogue and Mossberg and did O2 really sell that many iPhones?
It seems if you write for one of those old fashioned things called a newspaper then you get Apple’s go ahead to not play by the rules of an NDA that the rest of the blogosphere has to stick to.
Note To Apple - This is a great way to get on the wrong side of bloggers.
Anyway, Apple’s terrible PR relations not withstanding the general consensus from the reviews go from Edward C. Baig’s “this handheld marvel has no equal among consumer-oriented smartphones” to David Pogue’s ” but it’s not so much better that it turns all those original iPhones into has-beens” and Walter Mossberg’s “if you already own an iPhone, and can usually use Wi-Fi for data, you probably should hold off and get the free software upgrade before deciding whether it’s worth getting the new hardware”.
You can read the full reviews here:
Edward C. Baig - USA TODAY
David Pogue - NY Times
Walter S. Mossbeg - Wall Street Journal
Did O2 Really sell that many iPhones?
The UK’s Guardian newspaper has an interesting article on it’s technology blog concerning O2’s claim that it was receiving 13,000 orders per second, yes per second and that’s why it’s web site crashed. As the author Charles Arthur points out that means O2 sold 780,000 iPhones per minute and 3.9 million in 5 minutes. That means if it’s web site stayed up for 15 minutes O2 would have sold Apple’s desired quota for the whole year - Well don’t bother try to buy one in the US folks, O2 has sold all of the world’s shipments of iPhones according to them. Right.
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