Category: Web/Tech

Walter Mossberg, on balance, seems to like the iPhone.

We have been testing the iPhone for two weeks, in multiple usage scenarios, in cities across the country. Our verdict is that, despite some flaws and feature omissions, the iPhone is, on balance, a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer. Its software, especially, sets a new bar for the smart-phone industry, and its clever finger-touch interface, which dispenses with a stylus and most buttons, works well, though it sometimes adds steps to common functions.

I was thinking that it really didn’t suit my purposes (I have an iPod and prefer simple phones) but after reading this, as Homer Simpson once said “I may be all turned around on the subject”

(From the D Conference Blog). Tip-off by Andrew Huff.

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The Chicago Public Library system now offers free Wifi at all of their 79 branches. This is the future. I hope other libraries are watching.

Rumors of a Video iPod have been greatly exaggerated.

Well thank god for that. I’m still waiting for the dual-headed firewire cable that will allow me to run into a friend on the bus, who coincidentally is also listening to their iPod, and be able to trade songs back and forth just as you can beam files on a Palm Pilot (via Gizmodo).