No Undiluted Adulation, Just the Pros and Cons

The first reviews of the 3G iPhone went live yesterday, and the blogosphere has been abuzz ever since (here’s Walt’s full review). Yesterday, Walt spoke with Aaron Task of Yahoo’s Tech Ticker about the 3G iPhone, its pros and cons and “Apple sensitivity.” Here’s their conversation:

Written by Walt Mossberg on July 10th, 2008 with no comments.
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Mossberg backtracks on 3G iPhone 60 day claim: I don’t know & don’t care

Flashback to the end of last week and the furore of Walt Mossberg’s apparent “60 days to a 3G iPhone” statement; back then, we assumed Walt either had a badly-observed NDA or a particularly prescient moment, but now the godfather of consumer tech reviews is claiming he meant nothing by his comment.  Silicon Alley Insider spoke with the bearded lovely, who is supposed to be “bemused” by the excitement he’s inadvertently caused:

“Walt notes that in the clip, he’s making an aside during a larger point about data networks, and says that in any event, he doesn’t know if it’s correct. So where’d it come from? It’s a ballpark estimate, he says, based on the same speculation the rest of us are seeing” Silicon Valley Insider

Strangely, the veteran reporter claims not to be interested in when the 3G version comes out, because it won’t affect his review of the device.  I’m not sure if I follow the logic.

“If I knew when this date was, why would I announce it in the middle of a sentence at the Finnish embassy, rather than report it in the Wall Street Journal?” Walt Mossberg

Perhaps, Walt, but if this was as the conspiracists among us suspect and an accidentally-broken NDA, that would be a pretty good reason not to announce it via your official mouthpiece - the favours of Jobs & co would be unlikely to flow so freely in future.

End of the day, the 3G iPhone is coming sooner rather than later; perhaps not in two months exactly, but it’ll undoubtedly be the big handset this year.

Written by Chris Davies on April 8th, 2008 with no comments.
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Walt Mossberg announced 3G iPhone in 60-days

We all knew the 3G iPhone would arrive sooner or later, but everything I’ve read have come from analysts – and we all know how reliable those folks are. However, there’s one person in the world that I’d bet the farm on; that guy is Walt Mossberg. Walt (confidently) mentioned in passing in the video below that the “iPhone will be 3G in 60-days.” Now that’s something you can take to the bank folks. Why? Because everything and anything new that Apple release to market will land on Walt’s lap before anyone else outside of Apple.

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Written by Vincent Nguyen on April 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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U.S. should stop calling slow DSL ‘broadband’

I recently spoke at a conference on Web video held at the Finnish embassy in Washington, and sponsored by Beet.TV. In this excerpt, I spoke about several obstacles to the web’s emergence as a replacement for standard TV, including the very slow bandwidth that is marketed as “broadband” in the United States.

Written by Walt Mossberg on April 3rd, 2008 with no comments.
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Super-Slim ThinkPad Sneak Peek

Only a month or so after Apple announced its MacBook Air laptop, which it calls the world’s thinnest laptop, Lenovo is about to spring its own super-skinny machine: the ThinkPad X300. Here’s a sneak peek. My full review will appear after I have fully tested this unusual new laptop, which I expect to be of great interest to road warriors.

Like the MacBook Air, this is a rare small laptop that is built around a full 13-inch-wide screen display and a full keyboard, rather than the little screens and cramped keyboards common in subnotebooks. And, like the Air, it offers a fast, rugged solid-state drive instead of a hard disk.

But, unlike the Apple, Lenovo’s new skinny ThinkPad comes with a hefty complement of ports and features, some of the very things critics complained Apple left out. It has a built-in DVD drive, removable battery, three USB ports, and a wired Ethernet networking jack. Inside, in addition to Wi-Fi, it can be ordered with a built-in cellphone modem and even GPS. It comes with either Windows Vista or Windows XP.

Sporting the traditional ThinkPad black slab design, the X300 isn’t as skinny or sexy as the Apple, but it’s still very slender and attractive, at under an inch thick. Also, unlike the Apple, most of the ThinkPad’s configurations are a bit heavier than the 3-pound weight that traditionally denotes a subnotebook. But it still feels very light to carry around, at 3.12 pounds with the standard battery and DVD drive.

The biggest downsides to the new ThinkPad X300 are price and limited storage capacity. Unlike the Apple, which can be ordered with a higher-capacity, lower-priced hard disk, the new ThinkPad will only be available with the expensive, limited capacity solid-state drive. So it will start at between $2,500 and $2,800–up to $1,000 more than the Apple’s base price–and will be limited to a paltry 64 gigabytes of storage.

Written by Walt Mossberg on February 13th, 2008 with no comments.
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