IPhone – not the most perfect, but certainly lives up to the hype

Two days to go before Iphone fans can get their hands on the much awaited, much talked about mobile phone, there’s been a lot of guesses, predictions, extrapolations about how the phone would fare out in the market. But there have been a selected few, who actually got to have a hands on experience of the Iphone, like WSJ’s Walt Mossberg and NYTimes’ David Pogue. But Lev Grossman of Time sums up precisely what iphone is all about.

“It’s not quite right to call the iPhone revolutionary. It won’t create a new market, or change the entertainment industry, the way the iPod did. When you get right down to it, the device doesn’t even have that many new features—it’s not like Jobs invented voicemail, or text messaging, or conference calling, or mobile Web browsing. He just noticed that they were broken, and he fixed them.

But that’s important. When our tools don’t work, we tend to blame ourselves, for being too stupid or not reading the manual or having too-fat fingers. “I think there’s almost a belligerence—people are frustrated with their manufactured environment,” says Ive (Jonathan Ive, Designer, Iphone). “We tend to assume the problem is with us, and not with the products we’re trying to use.” In other words, when our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole. “

All said and done, IPhone is going to do to the mobile market what Ipod did to the music world. It is going to totally revamp the way the mobile manufacturers target their users.

So, if you are all set to go and wait outside your mobile shop and be among the first to lay hands on the iphone, i suggest you take a look at this .