Irony?
Please, explain me if Joe Spolsky was in irony mode or not when he wrote this:
I’ve been using it for a month now, and I’m completely sold. This is the best phone I’ve ever had. I love it.
...it kept dropping the connection, so I can’t say that was the perfect experience, ... [the e-mail client] doesn't know about folders ... This was unacceptable.
The GPS is great fun. It doesn’t work indoors. It doesn’t work in the city where the sky is a distant memory. But it works when you’re out in the country...That is, if you’re not so far out in the country that there’s no cell reception. ...You have to be pretty lucky for this to work: getting the GPS to find enough satellites is not always possible.
The music player is adequate, but not great. The sound quality is not quite as good as Apple. It takes too many steps to shuffle music. You hear unexplained static in the headphones when no music is playing. The volume control has exactly ten choices. When you’ve listened only to a part of a long podcast, the phone doesn’t remember where you were up to, so if you go back to it, you have to search around for the point where you left off.
There's a built in GPS map application, which always freezes.
In any case, it’s the best phone I’ve ever had and I’m loving it.
The bolds are all mine, and I have cherry-picked quotes on purpose here. For instance, he seems to find a replacement to the GPS map application and for the e-mail client. I also skipped the parts about call quality and battery which he seemed to like a lot. If you are one of those - you know who you are - that are all picky about fairness, go check the original article.
I'm just saying that if this is really the best phone Joel ever had - and I'm not caught in some soft irony post here -, this says more about Joel than about this particular phone. Which seems, from this review, a compact brick of crap.
