Walt Mossberg talked to MarketWatch’s Stacey Delo about the new iPhone 3G debut in this video, while attending Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today.
Walt also posted a Mossblog on his first impressions of the updated device here.
I’ll have a full, detailed review of the new 3G iPhone in a few weeks, but here are some first impressions based on Apple’s announcement today. Biggest pluses: speed, price and third-party programs. Biggest minuses: still locked to one carrier, missing features and wimpy camera.
I recently spoke at a conference on Web video held at the Finnish embassy in Washington, D.C., 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.
Although he tells MarketWatch’s Stacey Delo in this video that “he’s professionally not allowed to be wowed,” Walt Mossberg offers his first impressions of a number of new Apple products being unveiled this week at Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco, among them the MacBook Air–which, he cautions, he has not had the chance to put through its paces yet for reviewing purposes.
Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret wade further into the exhibit hall of the Consumer Electronics Show. For this installment they check out a multimedia refrigerator, 3-D Web browsing for Internet Explorer and many more gadgets.
Walt Mossberg and Katie Boehret check out the latest gadgets at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
OK, so this isn’t my usual tech review or rant. As it is the holiday season, and I find myself in Israel, I thought I’d post a few optimistic words about Peace on Earth–real peace in our time, evidenced every day, among Muslims and Jews.
I came here to speak at a tech/business conference sponsored by [...]
As regular readers know, I have frequently attacked the U.S. wireless phone carriers for exerting near-total control over what phones, software and services American consumers can use on their networks. In fact, since 2005, I have dubbed the carriers “the Soviet ministries,” for inserting themselves between the producers of mobile hardware and software and the [...]
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