Wireless - Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Apple iPhone's Speaker Problem
We don't normally cover product releases from public companies like Apple but a founder of one of the ventures that we follow blogged a contrarian post on the iPhone. The iPhone is such as success that even Valleywag praises it, but Oliver Thylmann points out that the iPhone suffers the same problem as the Nokia engage. In order to make the phone prettier they have stuck both microphone and speaker at the bottom of the phone. Thlymann lists 8 other reasons why the iPhone is over-hyped and why he prefers his Nokia .
iPhone microphone and speaker placement problem illustrated
Read - Testing out the iPhone (Mossberg)
Read - The iPhone Matches Most of its Hype (NY Times)
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