Stephen Fry Expatiates on the iPhone

Never one to do things by half, the splendid Stephen Fry gives us an incredibly in depth treatise on smartphones in his first blog post.

Fry admits to an obsession with smartphones going back many years:

"For me it’s an addiction. Swapping SIMS, syncing, testing, probing, playing. I can’t pretend I’ve any higher purpose. What cars are to some, SmartPhones are to me – much, much more than just a functional tool. We live in the age of these devices. It should be the age of the greatest imaginative drive, flair and creativity in the digital arena. I am disappointed that not everyone in the industry sees it that way.

He highlights what many Brits (me included) see as the main flaw of the UK iPhone implementation: the reliance on a relatively slow network:

"The UK EDGE networks are a great deal slower than the US. I have no idea why, it’s just so. My friends at Apple say there is much to be done to ready the iPhone for its projected late 2007 release over here. Perhaps it will be delayed. You see me above in my trailer, between scenes, making eyes at the device. To get EDGE in Norfolk is feat enough, believe me."

Via Russell's Delicious.