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If there is a new Apple device on the market, anyone that follows Apple news can probably rattle off at least three names of people who have played with the device.  Lets all say the names together: Pogue, Mossberg, and Baig.  The technology columnist for some of the biggest newspapers in the United States usually have first dibs on Apple devices that send us geeks to long lines at our nearest Apple store.  So what did these Apple loving technology columnists have to say?

David Pogue – New York Times

• The new name hints at the biggest change: this iPhone can bring you the Internet much faster.
• The third improvement is audio quality, which has taken a gigantic step forward.
• According to Apple, the iPhone’s G.P.S. antenna is much too small to emulate the turn-by-turn navigation of a G.P.S. unit for a vehicle, for example.
  
• Indeed, the really big deal is the iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store, neither of which requires buying a new iPhone.
• In short, the iPhone is about to become much more than a phone.

Walt Mossberg – Wall Street Journal

• Apple Inc.’s iPhone has been the world’s most influential smart phone since its debut a year ago, widely hailed for its beauty and functionality.
• I found that doing email and surfing the Internet typically was between three and five times as fast using AT&T’s 3G network as it was with the older AT&T network to which the first iPhone was limited.
• The iPhone 3G’s battery was drained much more quickly in a typical day of use than the battery on the original iPhone, due to the higher power demands of 3G networks.
• The camera, however, is still bare-bones.
• Any changes I made on the iPhone were reflected almost instantly in Microsoft Outlook on my company PC, and vice versa.
• While you can have both personal and Exchange email accounts on the new iPhone, if you synchronize with Exchange calendars and contacts, your personal calendar and contacts are erased.
• If you already own an iPhone, and can usually use Wi-Fi for data, you probably should hold off and get the free software upgrade before deciding whether it’s worth getting the new hardware.

Edward Baig – USA Today

• With GPS newly added to the mix, this handheld marvel has no equal among consumer-oriented smartphones.
• Apple says less then 10% of the hundreds of applications submitted by developers so far will hog more than 10 megabytes of space on your iPhone, with 80 MB the largest submitted.
• Another change (on older and newer iPhones): You no longer receive a pop-up offering to remove a downloaded movie after watching it, to free up space.
• It generally took 10 to 30 seconds to load popular websites through 3G, a lot zippier than when I accessed the sites on Edge.
• The design changes aren’t merely aesthetic. They’re a nod to iPhone’s 10 internal wireless radios. Plastic, unlike metal, is transparent to radio waves, improving reception, Apple says.
  

[Via Macworld]

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