Support Our Site
Get Better Gear!
- Notability For iPad: Much More Than A Note Taking App from Ginger Labs, Inc, US$0.99
- Scosche’s RH656m Headphones With Microphone Are Wonderful from Scosche, US$129.99
- IPEVO’s Typi Folio Case & Keyboard for iPad is First-rate from IPEVO, US$79.99
- Scosche’s boomSTREAM BT Speaker: Features & Compromises from Scosche, US$99.95
- FX Photo Studio HD: iPad Painting of Effects Made Easy from MacPhun LLC, US1.99
Premier Sponsors
Top 5 Free Apps
iTunes New Music Releases
Top 5 Paid Apps
Discover New Music
- Tegan and Sara
So Jealous is the third album from these sisters, and easily the one to single out for an introduction to their music. Some people may not get on board with their vocal styles, which are slightly
- Wolfmother
Black Sabbath, The White Stripes, The Stooges. There aren't many bands worth their salt that want to be compared to other bands, but when I listen to Wolfmother's self-titled American debut, I can
- Cake
Pressure Chief, Cake's latest album, didn't immediately grab me. In fact, it took perhaps half a dozen listens before I started truly enjoying it. Any
- Brian Eno
- In his first proper solo release since 1996's relatively cold "The Drop," Brian Eno has constructed a whimsical and ecclectic masterpiece which is arguably one of the year's strongest records thus fa
- Nine Inch Nails
In the sprawling post-A&R rock and roll world, there are two camps: the Beatles and the Stones. The Beatles are the artists that like to explore, evolve, and change styles. The Stones are the artis
Reader Specials
Visit Deals On The Web for the best deals on all consumer electronics, iPods, and more!
News
PC Magazine: iPhone is a "Lousy Phone"
Sunday, July 1st, 2007 at 4:00 PM - by Bryan Chaffin
The iPhone makes for a lousy phone, according to an in-depth review published by PC Magazine. The review piled praise onto the iPhone as an iPod ("best iPod ever"), an Internet device, its great design, and more, but said that poor voice quality, poor signal strength, and missing features found standard on other devices made for a very poor phone.
"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," wrote Sascha Segan and Tim Gideon, "but it’s just a plain lousy phone."
The reviewers put the iPhone through extensive testing, and found their unit to perform poorly in the area of voice quality and signal strength. They also criticized the iPhone for not having tactile feedback for dialing, a feature found in some Japanese-made touchscreen phones. While the voice quality and signal strength issues they cite run contrary to this reporter’s own experience, it should be noted that their tests were fairly in-depth.
Other areas of praise include:
- Display quality (gorgeous)
- The multitouch controls
- Great Web browser
- The YouTube browser
- The way in which all of the features in the iPhone work together
- The Interface
Other areas of criticism:
- GSM buzz on speakers
- Poor support for business e-mail
- Virtual keyboard (hard to type on it)
The reviewers gave it 4 out of 5 starts.
Recent Headlines
- Reading, Writing, & Saving the World
- Free Retro Gaming for iOS - Activision’s Kaboom!
- Apple Adds Chomp Bits to iOS 6 App Store Discovery
- Notability For iPad: Much More Than A Note Taking App
- Scosche’s RH656m Headphones With Microphone Are Wonderful
- Tim Cook & Larry Page Reportedly Discuss Patents
- Analysis: Amazon Kindle Fire Sold Out, Kindle Fire 2 Pic Leaked
Post Your Comments