Gizmodo has confirmed it, the iPhone won’t support flash player, instant messaging, voice dialing, heck it won’t even have stereo Bluetooth. We already know it doesn’t have 3G, a removable battery and extendable storage. But the lack of MMS? You can’t buy song direct from iTunes and the headset jack is proprietary. So why are all those people lining up for iPhone (see pic below) and why all those craiglists ads?
Here’s a comprehensive review from Walter Mossberg and Katherine Boehret after a two-week-long hands-on with the iphone: “… despite some flaws and feature omissions, the iPhone is, on balance, a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer. Its software, especially, sets a new bar for the smart-phone industry, and its clever finger-touch interface, which dispenses with a stylus and most buttons, works well… ” Read it here.
NYTimes David Pogue has a great photo of the iPhone (above): “The iPhone is revolutionary; it’s flawed. It’s substance; it’s style. It does things no phone has ever done before; it lacks features found even on the most basic phones.” Read it here.
Update: Watch David Pogue’s short film about iPhone after the break (hint: Pogue really likes Google Maps and the “fake GPS” on iPhone).
Update: Even if you’re a new AT&T subscriber using a subsidized phone of another brand, you can upgrade to the iPhone by adding $20. Go to AT&T iPhone FAQ page.

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July 10th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
[...] Testbed)The iPhone camera: no flash, no zoom, poor in low lighting conditions. (Tech Digest)Caveat Emptor: iPhone Has no MMS, Flash, IM, Song Ringtones, A2DP, Video Recording (PMP Today)The AT&T EDGE Network, it’s like the internet, but ten years ago! [...]
September 29th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Yeah, the no MMS is a bit of a bummer…especially for a 400 dollar phone. How tough could it be to have MMS…was it just an oversight?
November 1st, 2007 at 8:00 am
[...] official, iPhone is the King of all tech. There are many things wrong with the iPhone, and TIME readily accepts it: you can barely type on it, too big really, no IM, lacks some e-mail [...]
June 24th, 2009 at 11:44 am
It has all the things you said it doesn’t; http://www.apple.com/uk/iphone/guidedtour/#large.