I appeared on Minnesota Public Radio's All Things Considered today, talking with host Tom Crann about Barack Obama's use of text messaging to announce his VP pick. Here's the audio for your listening pleasure:

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Dwight Silverman has been an second-generation iPhone user for more than a month now, and reviews his experience with the device on today's show and in the Houston Chronicle. Excerpt:

It really is a breakthrough product, and I'll go out on a limb and say this: The iPhone is probably the most important personal technology device introduced in this decade. I believe, within its own niche, it is the equivalent of the original IBM PC. It is disruptive, both to the traditional ways people use a phone, and in the way they are designed, sold and upgraded. The personal communications landscape is changed forever, and dramatically so.

Silverman says, however, the iPhone is still a very flawed gadget. Problems include

... the iPhone 3G's notoriously poor battery life; its sluggish performance in key areas, such as when switching Web pages and using the virtual keyboard; its crashing apps, both those from Apple and third parties; the surprisingly pokey AT&T 3G network; and its unreliability when it comes to connecting to the 3G network.