The iPhone goes on sale today at 6 p.m. local time at Apple and AT&T stores. Just as the iPod didn’t invest the MP3 player but significantly improved the overall user experience, the iPhone looks poised to do the same thing in mobile.
Here are reviews and coverage from the past 24 or so hours:
- David Pogue’s entertaining video demo of the phone from the NY Times
- Interviews with Steve Jobs and AT&T CEO and Chairman Randall Stephenson at the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) and USAToday.
- The NY Times’ John Markoff writes about the decision behind putting the iPhone on AT&T’s slow EDGE Network
- The WSJ writes about the impact of the iPhone (so far) on Apple and AT&T shares and AT&T’s carrier competitors.
The rest of this post is at LocalMobileSearch.net.
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Related: By earlier this March a million people (2/3 of whom aren’t AT&T subscribers) had asked to be notified of the iPhone’s release. By mid June the demand had grown to roughly 10% of the U.S. mobile market.
Also: Eric Auchard (Reuters) writes about the lines outside the Apple Store in San Francisco and Matt Marshall at Venture Beat talks about third-party development efforts for the iPhone.
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