The iPhone, the latest must-have gadget from Apple, fails to give users complete access to the internet, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) rules today.

It said the combined phone, music player and computer is flawed because of the absence of two common website programmes, Flash and Java. As a result, the authority said Apple’s claim that the iPhone gave access to “all parts of the internet” misled customers about its power as a web browser.

To read more of this report in The Independent, click here. Or to read iPhone: Watchdog rules against Apple advert on net access in The Guardian, click here.

To read the ASA Adjudication, see www.asa.org.uk/asa/adjudications/Public/TF_ADJ_44891.htm.