potentially turning it into a true pocket computer.Two major software updates, in September 2007 and January 2008, e await the big update coming in February that will open up the iPhone to third-party applications,have enhanced the iPhone's features but leave our conclusions intact. As we write this, though.

with relatively low capacities of 4GB or 8GB of non-upgradable flash memory.Let's celebrate the iPhone first: it's a marvelous iPod. No one will miss the scroll wheel, despite the fact that it was once the greatest tactile control panel ever designed. It's complicated to dial, difficult to send text messages on, and missing all sorts of features that are basically assumed to be in most high-end multimedia phones nowadays
,Once you've messed around with the easiest-to-use, best-looking player interface currently available, This is the best portable multimedia player we've seen—albeit,

The seamless integration of the Internet, iPod, Maps, Phone, and email functions flaunted in the commercials is no exaggeration. The iPhone is intuitive, interconnected, and impossible to get lost in—just hit the home button to get to the main screen.

But the iPhone isn't called the iPod With Phone. It's the iPhone and, put simply, it isn't a very good phone. We're not going to put that on AT&T, either: our Blackberry Curve made much clearer calls at the same time, in the same place. Reception leaves something to be desired. Call quality was the worst we've heard on a high-end device in years. The September 2007 update improved earpiece volume somewhat, but the phone experience as a whole is still substandard.your old iPod will seem like a quaint relic from a time when people expected less from their gadgets.