iPhone is Time’s gadget of the year

As we approach the end of the year, it can only mean one thing: looking back and reflecting on 2007. Thus, even with two months left in the calendar, Time’s Lev Grossman declares the iPhone the “invention of the year.” What says Mr. Grossman?

Yes, there’s been a lot of hype written about the iPhone, and a lot of guff too. So much so that it seems weird to add more, after Danny Fanboy and Bobby McBlogger have had their day. But when that day is over, Apple’s iPhone is still the best thing invented this year.

Wait, wait—let’s get one thing straight. Clearly I’m Danny McBlogger, okay? All right. Just so we’re on the same page here.

Grossman goes on to list five features that make the iPhone a standout in its class, namely: good design, the multi-touch interface, Jobs’s “unprecedented” deal with AT&T, the iPhone’s OS X underpinnings, and the Ghost of iPhones Yet To Come (3G, GPS, every lovely gewgaw that users want in their iPhones but Apple has yet to deliver).

So, with the iPhone taking home invention of the year, will the Zodiac replace this year’s “Year of the Pig” with the “Year of the iPhone?” It’s certainly hard to point to any other gadget which has had that much ink spilled on it this year. But really, all it does is get me buzzed about the invention of next year (flying cars, pretty please!).

Category: News

Posted by Dan Moren on Nov 1 2007, 11:49 AM ET

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