Some of you may have read that title and cried 'BLASPHEMY!', but let me assure you that the iPhone, despite being the only gadget that can actually get you laid, needs to tighten up a little bit. First off, if you are not an existing AT&T customer, the entire device is locked until AT&T activates it, which can take several days. Second problem, the first generation has no 3G chip so it can't use AT&T's high speed data network. Third, the device doesn't support flash, so no video viewing on anything but YouTube, which it supports directly, but without a 3G chip it doesn't matter because you won't be able to download video in any reasonable amount of time. The other issues are a little more minor, the camera can't shoot video and their is no SD card expansion slot.
Some of you readers out there might object to such criticism. Yes, the problems seem minor and are already being corrected, but the iPhone is just so cool that stupid little things like these ruin it for me. Come on Steve Jobs, you were so close to tightness perfection...
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does it grate cheese?
Let it be registered that the Editorial Board at the TUR fully backs Pete's criticisms. If hype needs to be dismantled, so be it.
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