Buying the iPhone for its iPod feature is a lot like buying that Rolls-Royce for its umbrella. CNET recently reviewed a Rolls-Royce that had a top-notch umbrella hidden inside its passenger door. Unfortunately, it's trapped within a device that will cost you more than $1,000 a year just to own. The display, interface, video quality, audio quality-all of it is meticulously refined and beautiful. Like previous iPods, video playback is automatically bookmarked so that playback resumes where you left off.12:32 a.m.: iPhone's iPodSandwiched between all the iPhone's features lives Apple's most amazing iPod yet. We were just barely able to squeeze the plug of our Etymotic ER6i earphones into the jack to do the comparison.The iPhone's wide screen lends itself very well for video viewing.CNET NetworksWatching video on the iPhone is not quite as luxurious as a Creative Zen Vision: W or Archos 504, but its wide screen and bright contrast beat the 5G iPod by a mile.
Unfortunately, the iPhone's recessed headphone jack prevented us from using many of the test headphones we're familiar with.
The included iPhone earbuds did a passable job for casual listening in a quiet environment. All the same EQ presets are available, only now they are found on the iPhone's main Settings tab. Our 8GB iPhone was already a quarter full after only a few hours of testing, giving us the impression that users will need to be vigilant at grooming their iPhone library.The iPhone's music sound quality seems right in line with our experience using the 5G iPod. This should work out fine for most people, but for a device with limited memory, the inability to manually manage content seems like a misstep. Instead, the iPhone strictly uses defined library syncing options for collecting and syncing content from your iTunes library to the device. Unlike any previous iPod, the iPhone does not allow an option for manually dragging and dropping content from an iTunes library directly to the iPhone device icon. Thanks for staying up with us!1:08 a.m.: Music and moviesThe bad news is that the iPhone's iPod leaves out the ability to manually manage the transfer of music and video content.
Read it here, then tune in tomorrow for our updates once we run our battery drain and talk time tests in CNET Labs. 2:14 a.m.: The verdictWe've pushed and prodded all night, and now we have the final iPhone review.
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