rock and fucking roll.
burn the useless technology and get
back to buisness.
by that i mean long haired rock freaks like the mc5 and 3 day long super orgies.

Let it be known, RS is the hippest corporation of all! All other corporations are James Taylor to Rolling Stone’s Bob Dylan.

Way to be negative. You still didn’t answer the question if you think it’s worth it or not. Personally, I think if the iPhone can combine an iPod and a cell phone into one small package, well then that could be one less device for you to “lug around in your pockets”. Could it be a transparent integration? I havn’t played with one yet. Who knows, we’ll see.

It looks cool to me

hey charles, just googled some of your articles. you have the wit of a rapist. Nice sophmoric writing style. You even used “wipe’s his ass” in the title of one of your article. That’ll tell your audience you’re a serious music journalist. i agree with the above post. RS is too cool for me and apparently a lot of other people too….based on your sliding subscriptions.

Was it just me or does this article have no purpose and make no sense? What was with the parenthetical nonsense?

How much crap we like to lug around in our pockets? Like a folded up copy of RS? Oh God no…I wouldn’t be so embarassed.

leave rolling stone alone. they’re hip and on top of whats cool. just read theyre review on the velevet underground from ‘67. wait… they didnt even bother to review it. or theyre review of nevermind, the album they praise in practically every issue. they gave it 3 star! but what do i know? rolling stone is hip and with it.

as is typical everybody sucks.
they just wanted to critique america’s obsession with useless
expensive crap.
maybe if we spent less fucking time
charging our cell phones with minutes
and maybe actually using our money
to help something or someone..
but what do i know im just a guy on
the internet just like all of you.

This article has no purpose and makes no sense

man, you’d have to have a really small penis to buy this phone.

I agree with the article…too many times I’ve been led astray by reading something positive about a new gadget…I mean what is an iPod?? it’s not like it’s a walkman or anything revolutionary like that it was just one of the first mp3 players and one where style AND substance resided together…leave it to jobs to jerk himself a soda over this new concoction unlike Bill Gates who never toots his own horn over his great achievement in computer tech…way to go Rolling Stone you’ve done it again! Cheers!

Well, this is it. Somebody had to get there first.

Looks like Charlie Cox (did you put the ‘e’ there yourself to sound more dignified) fits the RS mold perfectly as he trashes big business companies. The iPhone can’t download songs directly to it, you have to sync with a computer to transfer them. Heaven forbid Apple toot it’s own horn, because M$ certainly never does that (see: Xbox, Xbox360, the Zune, Vista). And yeah I guess the video iPod’s screen is way to small, that explains why it and its brethren (the shuffle doesn’t even have a screen! oh the humanity!) are the top selling DAPs everywhere. You’re better off changing your last name to Cohen Charlieboy, it’s still obvious you are, in fact, the douche mentioned in the first paragraph of your article.

Is RS Hightech enemy ? What better to have your ipod & phone in one single device ?? it seems cool to me.

Wow, $500 for a phone? I wonder what else you could get for that much money.
$50 a regular mp3 phone
$25 a cheap hooker
$15 a new cd
$10 a really cheap hooker
$200 a flat screen television
$100 a surround sound for your new tv
$100 a nintendo DS Lite

Or you could say fuck it all and just buy a gold set of dog tags that say “ass” and “hole”

Better yet you could buy Charles Coxe some writing ability.

Up to you I guess.

you motherfuckers are never happy. when the writers are obsessing over some new band, you declare them frauds with an agenda. now, when they trash some new technology, you declare them an enemy to the high tech world. make up your damn minds and please, shut the hell up.

iPhone = a technological orgasm.

Go fuck yourself! When you finally use one for yourself write a review, but for now write a preview. Now isn’t the time to decide wether or not it lives up to the hype dipshit.

I like how you just wasted 3 minutes of my time to read that, tnx. I will never get it back and neither will anyone else that reads your article. Please try to be professional and wait untill you are no longer drunk/stoned/retarded to post your articles. Obviously you did not take time to think about what you wrote.

“what a douche you are”
“geekdom cream in their hipster jeans”
“corporate masturbation”

Its terms like these that give RS the edgy, i-read-indie-blogs, holier-than-thou touch that other magazines lack. Bravo, Coxe.

Bravo Croxe, if you set out to accomplish the typically jaded, mostly cliched, “I stand out for not being part of them” review, well then you did it. Rather than finding any strand of smart and objective journalism you chose the easy way out. Sarcasm is worthless without wit. Open your eyes and subject yourself to your own vulnerability. You’ll find you can be a better writer when you confront the things you don’t understand or don’t want to understand.

Wow, this article was quite invigorating assuming your intended audience were village idiots.

While I’m not all that impressed with the iPhone, I was far less impressed by this article. What worthless dribble. I wrote better than this in jhi.

Wii rules. Also, I wonder what Mr Coxe thought of the internet when that came out.

I am glad to see that just about everyone feels the same way I do about Coxe and Rolling Stone in general lately. I desperately want integrity and intelligence to be the new sarcasm and irony.

Potential reasons for this article to have sucked as badly as it did:
1. Mr. Coxe is still feeling raw about his ska band not getting signed in 1998.
2. Mr. Coxe is beefing up his portfolio to write for Magnet.
3. Mr. Coxe was way over electroclash long before it was cool to be over electroclash.
4. By virtue of working at Rolling Stone, Mr. Coxe recieves shitpiles of free gizmos and CD’s all of which he treats as insignificant bourgois crap because being blase’ about such perks might help hide his midwestern heritage from his new batch of East Coast friends.
5. Mr. Coxe is perfectly happy with his current phone, a Motorola (RED) because it clearly identifies him as someone who gives a shit about diseases in the third world and chicks fuck dudes that are all humanitarian and shit.

pretty much all the phones in japan already have all these features.
if u buy it it will just get outdated in a year.
and its interesting how apple acts like its all a wonderful new idea.

I’m taking a screenshot of the article so I can look at it in five years time and laugh my ass off again while knowing that Charles Coxe has one in his pocket (or a nasty copy of one — maybe made by Microsoft.)

I am in the right place, yeah? This is Rolling Stone? I’ve ignored the mag for years. Glad to see I was right. What a shame.

Mr Coxe, I hate mp3 and the IPod revolution as much as you do… NOT, your article reminds me yet again that RS consists of stuck up people like those Jack Black and John Cusack portrayed in High Fidelity. The LP days are over dude, and music is and always will be eminent domain.

” Nintendo Wii (controllers inconveniently break our TV)”

Yeah man, mine smashed mine with a claw hammer last night when i was sleeping, that a-hole.

Seriously, how can you blame Nintendo for your own dumbass mistakes.

Who is this Charles Coxe, and why is he so full of hate?

Mr. Cox, its only a new cell phone. There’s nothing more to say about it. Does this have to be turned into a bitter statement? Did I mention this is a cell phone? Its a phone. That’s it.

I’ll admit, when I first saw the iPhone, I payed attention, and “oohed” at all the features. But I really have to agree with Mr. Coxe on this. Do we REALLY need anymore features on our cellular devices? Do people really need more things to distract themselves with at work/in school/while driving/while walking when you should be watching where the hell you’re going?

This article does suck. “Hurry we have to write something.” It’d be perfect if this dude’s name was “Mikey”. He hates everything.

I said, please watch my balls!

I think the phone is pretty cool. Let’s not forget that is has MAC OS on it. It’s like a mini computer. Plus you can view the REAL internet….not tiny featureless cell phone version. I think it’s too expensive….but it will open the door for a whole bunch of imitators, and in 5 years an all in one device will be the norm. Also…..before we go all gaga over all these features….maybe we should get cell phone service that is RELIABLE. After all, it is a phone…..so the most basic feature….it being a phone…should be reliable calling. BOOYAH.

I think the new phone will change how people move arround and that type of stuff. Its sleek,and has wonderfull image quality. Its going to revolutionize the U.S., even the whole world, for the New Year.

judging by that photo, you’d have to be a giant for that thing to fit in your pocket.

I’m betting the author is a staunch Windows/Microsoft man that hates it when Apple makes his beloved company seem obsolete/like a little bitch.

I really like that device. I’d use just about every feature with the exception of the phone.

You writers online get away with much more than what I read in my monthly magazine. They should let you Kings of Sarcastic Media write these pithy comments in the real mag. Don’t hate on Apple for at least trying to improve things whil most companies take your money and give you craptastic merch.

i usually buy things like that because i like the looks of it, but for some reason i don’t like the way that thing looks…it’s too bulky lookin’ and not star trek communicator enough lookin’

(besides; i don’t really like mp3 anyway)…

Charles Coxe is a douche…

I’m sick of seeing and hearing about cell phones. We should all go back to pagers.

With everything going on in the world…people are worried about a fucking phone? What the fuck? Apple has created a new fucking product that if you don’t own stupid people will sneer at you? “Well Paris has one.” No one cool can own this. Fuck corporate America.

Lets see what can my Treo do hmmmm, EVERYTHING THE IPHONE DOES!

The only real difference is the touchscreen, but it doesn’t revolutionize anything. Yes it looks cool, but that’s what apple is about, looking cool.

BTW I’m and Ex Mac user who got sick of bloated prices and incompatibilities with PC users.

Maybe he’s bitter because he can’t afford one

Charlie Coxe in africa? you get around! Forget phones and do smoke signals more fun.