not sure what you're babbling about as far as 'early reviews' or whatever, even the wall street journal just got theirs last week, and he said he loved the keyboard
i do know there's been a lot of people saying 'it just can't work!'
the second ipone will probably be pretty good. and i actually predict that the lower level version of the iphone, when/if that ever happens, will be pretty good because if will likely have a real keyboard