One of the first reviews of the iPhone to be posted was over at engadget. While their iPhone review doesn't show they were bowled over by the phone, they did heap some praise on it:
It's easy to see the device is extraordinarily simple to use for such a full-featured phone and media player.Part one of the review looks at the iPhone's hardware, interface, and keyboard. As you'd expect they are effusive with praise about the styling and production quality of the phone - hold one and you'll know what they're talking about. The 480x320 display was "the most attractive we've seen on a portable device of this size".
The interface gets a good going over, with some irritating quirks emerging, but enough innovation to win the reviewer over. As with any iPhone review there's plenty of subjectivity involved.
The iPhone's call and mail applications are examined in detail, in general good but again not without their faults. No doubt many of the problems will be removed in the iPhone version 2.
Safari fares a little worse in this iPhone review, with hit-and-miss rendering, particularly where Ajax is concerned.
The highlight for engadget was clearly the iPod functionality, which "has never been easier on an iPod, or more more seamlessly integrated into a phone".
The engadget iPhone review concludes:
It's totally clear that with the iPhone, Apple raised the bar not only for the cellphone, but for portable media players and multifunction convergence devices in general.
Read the full Engadget iPhone review
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