At MacWorld 2007, Steve Jobs' keynote talks about a lot of wonderful things Apple is doing these days, but he stopped the show withhis demo of (finally!) the iPhone.
The guys at Engadget were there and posted a running commentary along with a LOT of pics from the address, but the upshot is that the iPhone is a combination of a video iPod (plays music &video in landscape or widescreen), a Wii controller (has an accelerometer that switches to landscape view when you hold it that way), and one of the smartest, coolest phones you'll ever see.It hasa 3.5 inch touchscreen, comes in 4gb and 8gb flavors, ranges from $499-$599 with a new Cingular contract, runs OSX (!), has Bluetooth 2 and WiFi, has an iPod interface, is 11.9mm thick (thinner than a Blackjack), and has sensors that turn off the screen when you hold the phone to your face and automatically adjusts brightness based on ambient light.
Available in June.
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"From this day forward we're going to be known as Apple, Inc. We've dropped the computer from our name."
About time.
As for the device itself, unless it has truely %100 compatibility with MS or something like Active Sync, I don't think it will be a big hit. If course it will have it's own sync at iMac or others but the installation of applications, process management, multitasking, etc..
Unless Apple thinks of this phone as pocket mac (which is what it looks like, more than a phone) I wouldn't get it as my phone.
Nevertheless, let's see the final product.
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I generally hate Apple, but I gotta admit, that thing is pretty freaking cool.. It will be very interesting to see them when they come on the market..
Although, no 3G is going to hurt for some folks..
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A Wii controller... wow, what a useless and highly targeted addition.
Don't get me wrong, if the part that says " Runs OSx" means that there will be an application base, then THAT is cool. Other than that it is a video ipod (so what) and a 2 year old phone (so what)
That does satisfy Rule #2, soo....
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I'm torn. I'm a long time apple user, but love my 5555. Without expansion slots it's no PDA but the linchpin will be how well it does sync with a PC (I assume the mac sync will use iSync and be fine), and whether you can get either the usual ms apps (excel,word,ppt) or apple's variaint (iWorks) on it.
But for me the killer is Cingular. I had left AT&T after 11 years due to poor service quality of their staff and network. I would have been a real ground shaker appliance IFF it were an unlocked GSM phone, go pick your carrier. THAT would have spelled the dawn of the convergence of various networks (cdma,tdma,gsm,etc.).
But at the current price range it's a wanna be PDA but not the PDA bits to go with it, but hopefully that'll change. It might be a full two years for widespread adoption of the PDA like uniapplicance considering existing users service contracts. Anyhow, for me its the software stupid, like the use of os/x, but need a bit for details on the applications that would help it dovetail the pc market.
Still for the non-PDA crowd this might be killer were it not for cingular.
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I was thinking of the same thing, but with all the wireless, who needs expansion slots anymore? If you are talking about the memory-wise, with 8GB I don't think there will be much you need to add on this. As for CF/SD,etc with BT you won't really miss them if you need to add GPS, etc.
It is missing something, but I don't know. Maybe it is the lack of buttons that makes it look awkward. We'll have to see the performance. If it is slow like WM5 I wouldn't switch ever, and I am definetly not one of the first buyers.. Let them run it for a while and when the price is right, I might get it. Let us see the list of all features, then we talk :)
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When you say, "Runs OSX" does that mean that it runs OSX, or it runs OSX like my PDA runs Windows? I guess a palmtop OSX would be a little more doable than Windows, considering the Unix base of Mac's OSes, and the high portability of Linux, another Unix offshoot, but what kind of restrictions on your OSX applications will we see on this device? Will it be basically a kernel and only the custom phone app with a couple extras, or is it something that we could actually consider a version of OSX?
well being that it has bluetooth, theres your gps, keyboard, external mouse?, etc etc. and it looks like its pretty quick. it has to be to look so smooth in those videos. the ui is amazing. i cant wait :) now to figure out how to come up with $600?
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