Finally this morning my list of recent unread posts in Google Reader contained only one iPhone headline.  I get it everybody.  The iPhone shipped.  Amazingly the world is still spinning on its axis.

scoble-with-iphone

(Scoble coming out with his iPhone. Source: Newseum)

The common response seems to be that Apple has raised the bar for mobile phone design and experience, so expect to see a competitive leap forward from other handset makers.  This is from an email I got this morning:

Simple things like muting, speakerphone, 2-way conferencing, switching to vibrate (a dedicated physical toggle!), and visual voicemail: they got the simple stuff nailed

There are a lot of things that phones should do well that they just don’t.  My fingers are crossed that we’ll see a new trend of phones that nail the simple stuff.

They aren’t so enthusiastic at pcmag.com:

The most over-hyped product of the decade is a sublime media player and a flawed phone.