Pogue and Mossberg give iPhone glowing reviews

Apple may be quite stingy with early review units when compared to other tech companies but you can always count on at least two folks to get their hands on Apple products before the general public: The New York Times' David Pogue and Wall Street Journal tech columnist Walt Mossberg.

As expected, both scored early iPhones, as did USA Today's Edward C. Baig and Newsweek's Steven Levy. The verdict? All four agree that the iPhone very nearly lives up to the unprecedented expectations that it will face this Friday.

"Even in version 1.0, the iPhone is still the most sophisticated, outlook-changing piece of electronics to come along in years," Pogue writes. Sure, all of the reviewers had complaints: the keypad takes some getting used to, the EDGE network is staggeringly slow and call quality is reportedly average. At the end of the day, however, nearly all of the iPhone's features do work exactly as advertised--making it a device all four reviewers agreed is deserving of its preemptive praise. As David Pogue puts it: "It does so many things so well, and so pleasurably, that you tend to forgive its foibles."

Make sure to check out Pogue's hilarious video review of the phone, as well as Mossberg's not-so-hilarious video review, both of which are linked below.

For more on the iPhone:
- See David Pogue's video review (via the New York Times)
- Walt Mossberg's video review (via the Wall Street Journal)
- The USA Today review
- and the Newsweek review

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