David Pogue’s NYT review of the iPhone is up as well. Pogue’s take: “As it turns out, much of the hype and some of the criticisms are justified. 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.” His guided tour of the iPhone is here. Pogue’s unembeddable video review is here. (It starts with some funny looks at all the hype.)

How does it fare as a phone? Pogue: “Making a call, though, can take as many as six steps: wake the phone, unlock its buttons, summon the Home screen, open the Phone program, view the Recent Calls or speed-dial list, and select a name. Call quality is only average, and depends on the strength of your AT&T signal.”

-- Pogue’s battery experience wasn’t as good as that of Walt Mossberg. Also, he points out that after a few hundred charges, the battery starts to lose capacity and will have to go to Apple for a swap—and for a fee.

-- Like Walt Mossberg, Pogue, too, sees AT&T’s network as a problem. Edge is “excruciatingly slow.’ One example: the NYT.com front page takes 55 seconds to load; I think that’s longer than the iPhone commercial that uses the NYT as an example of the great browser. (Apparently, it really is great—Pogue and Mossberg both rave about it.) Pogue: “A future iPhone model will be able to exploit AT&T’s newer, much faster data network, which is now available in 160 cities.”