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Yeah, That's a Pretty Badass Phone

Here's Farhad Manjoo in Salon.com on Apple's new iPhone:

There are probably only a few of us who really need to have a cellphone, an iPod, a Web browser, a text chat system, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi all in one device wherever we go -- maybe if you're an E.R. doctor or a FEMA official. (Maybe not a FEMA official.) For most of us, all this will be as necessary as a Hummer in Riverside. The real point is how the iPhone looks and what it says about the people who own it. And it looks marvelous.

He's dead right. I've never been the kind of early-adapter to jump on the first generation of any flashy new electronics product -- I'm more content to wait out the bug fixes and price drops -- but this thing is another story. I mean, holy shit...I want one of these. Almost as bad as I want a Nintendo Wii, and that's saying something. And I just bought a new fucking iPod six months ago!

What's funny is that on Monday, when I'd first heard that Apple would be releasing a new cellular phone, I couldn't possibly imagine how they were going to make it interesting. I'd actually figured this was a signal Apple had finally jumped the shark, they'd run out of new ideas and were standing at the precipice of a new post-iPod decline.

Boy, was I wrong. This thing is going to be huge.

UPDATE: Oh, well, except in Japan.

From behind his busy counter, Kurita giggles when asked about the excitement in America over the arrival of Apple's iPhone, which can also be used to download music and surf the Internet.

"Sounds like business as usual," he says.

Sure, go ahead and laugh, you spoiled bastard.

Labels: iStuff

posted by nick @ 10:12 AM