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Your Editor in Chief may not own an iPhone (yet, thanks to a screw-up with my account at Rogers Wireless) but if you do, HAINSWORTH.COM will automagically recognize you’re surfing the site from your wizbang gizmo using the Safari web browser and reformat everything to accommodate a more Cupertino-like experience.

The red circles with numbers next to the dates indicate the number of comments our 4.5M viewers have made to each article.

And at the bottom of each page there’s an option to turn off the iPhone experience to view the whole site as the gods and nature intended.

Oh, and this works for other smartphones, too. If any other exist.

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It’s easy to argue the study was stacked in Apple’s favour. Ease of operation and physical design were the heaviest weighted questions within the survey (each responsible for 30% of the total score). Apple’s score of 791 out of 1,000 may not be much of a surprise, then. What’s also not a surprise is Apple ranked very poorly in the battery life department. The iPhone 3G even offers an option to switch to a lower-power (and slower data speed) EDGE mode to conserve the juice. (more…)