The Gadget show is to gadgets what Top Gear is to cars.
The reviews are just plain daft, texting while doing a bungee jump off a bridge? The removable battery on the Nokia is a "feature" becvuase it means when your phone locks up you can reboot it. That's not a "feature", how about a phone that doesn't need you to remove the friggin battery to reboot in the first place!
Their review of the iPhone was carefully staged so as not to make it look too "must have". Probably so the poor people need not feel to bad about not having one.
However it is not "perfect", certain features have been omitted, at least in this first version that we Europeans expect (as Phil points out).
No video camera -> I don't mind as all phone videos are sh*te.
2mp camera with no flash -> Agreed, unacceptable today on a high end phone.
Battery not replaceable -> Never needed to replace a phone battery in my life.
Can't send a text message to more than one recipient -> Agreed that's daft (probably due to the way it uses an instant messenger type interface to display sms chats), I imagine a software update will fix it in future.
Can't use it as a bluetooth modem -> again daft, I may want to use it with my Apple laptop to do things the iPhone cannot.
No user installable apps -> no longer an issue, from February signed 3rd party apps will be allowed.
Will I buy one?
Probably not. I want it 3G, the other "flaws" I'll deal with.
