7 reviews of the original iPhone from 2007
Today, Apple releases the iPhone 5s. How far we've come...
Today, Apple fanboys who waited overnight for the new iPhone 5s will finally be rewarded with a marginally better phone than the one they had before.
Seeing as most techies agree that Cupertino has pretty much created the Platonic ideal of a smartphone, most of the griping nowadays centers around the lack of revolutionary new features. The iPhone 5s has a new fingerprint sensor, a faster processor, and slightly better camera — all improvements, but nothing critics have defined as groundbreaking.
But oh, how cynical we've become. Let's take a little trip back to a simpler time, before the financial crisis, when Fergie's "Fergalicious" roamed the airwaves. We're talking about 2007 — the year the very first iPhone was released.
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Here, a roundup of contemporary reviews from the very first iPhone.
Edward C. Braig of USA Today marveled at the iPhone's lack of a stylus.
David Pogue from The New York Times got poetic about the touchscreen.
Jason Snell of Macworld delighted in saying goodbye to the scroll wheel.
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A glass display on a device even thinner than a Motorola Razr? CNN's Kent German and Donald Bell were sold.
If only it was more like a BlackBerry, mused the staff of PC World.
Maybe you should just wait for the iPhone Nano, cautioned The Guardian's Anna Pickard.
Finally, Lev Grossman of TIME predicted the future.
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Keith Wagstaff is a staff writer at TheWeek.com covering politics and current events. He has previously written for such publications as TIME, Details, VICE, and the Village Voice.
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