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Apple introduces iPhone
Engadget ^ | Jan 9, 2007 | Chris Ziegler

Posted on 01/09/2007 10:18:35 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek

Capping literally years of speculation on perhaps the most intensely followed unconfirmed product in Apple's history -- and that's saying a lot -- the iPhone has been announced today in collaboration with Cingular. Yeah, we said it: "iPhone," the name the entire free world had all but unanimously christened it from the time it'd been nothing more than a twinkle in Stevie J's eye (comments, Cisco?). Sweet, glorious specs of the 11.6 millimeter device (that's frickin' thin, by the way) include a 3.5-inch wide touchscreen display with multi-touch support, 2 megapixel cam, 8 GB of storage, Bluetooth with EDR, WiFi, and quadband GSM radio with EDGE -- and amazingly, it somehow runs OS X.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; iphone; ipod
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

The iPhone is smaller than the linked device. Not to mention much cooler looking. Just like MP3 players smartphones needed a killer device for them to take off. This is it. This one might not sell tons, but the next generation that will likely be cheaper with more carriers will. This one just needs to get great reviews from critics and early adopters so the next generation has good word of mouth.


181 posted on 01/09/2007 4:50:58 PM PST by Mr. Blonde (Like I always say, there's no "I" in team. There's a "me" though, if you jumble it up.)
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To: Pukin Dog

Cingular has iPhone exclusivity up to 2009.

That is, unless you buy the iPhone retail, then unlock it.


182 posted on 01/09/2007 4:51:17 PM PST by Terpfen ("Conservatives" who sat at home cost us the War on Terror, SCOTUS, and economic success.)
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To: Golden Eagle

It's not about market dominance. The cell phone market is too large for any one company to dominate. If Apple gains 1% market share, that's something like 10 million iPhones sold.

Not every company has to own the majority of the market in order to be considered successful or profitable. Look at Nintendo if you need another example.


183 posted on 01/09/2007 4:52:51 PM PST by Terpfen ("Conservatives" who sat at home cost us the War on Terror, SCOTUS, and economic success.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

I'm still trying to resuscitate my Newton.


184 posted on 01/09/2007 4:53:11 PM PST by zarf
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To: antiRepublicrat

Haven't read far enough to see if anyone with experience knows, but I have long nails. Long enough so that I have trouble with electronic voting machines. :-)
But I have a Garmin Street Pilot that works just fine with the touch of a nail. It allows for a smaller screen than one could use with a large finger. I suspect that the Apple technology is closer to the Garmin one than to the electronic voting one.


185 posted on 01/09/2007 5:06:30 PM PST by speekinout
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To: Terpfen
Are you serious? Cingular must have funded the development of that phone, if that is the case. Damn. Well, I hate Cingular, but might have to make an exception. I need that phone for my coolness factor.
186 posted on 01/09/2007 5:13:34 PM PST by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: Pukin Dog

Sadly, I am indeed serious. See post 166 for a CNN story confirming the exclusivity deal.

Of course, if most/all of the iPhone's features will work on other networks, you can just unlock the phone.


187 posted on 01/09/2007 5:25:26 PM PST by Terpfen ("Conservatives" who sat at home cost us the War on Terror, SCOTUS, and economic success.)
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To: Terpfen
I hate to see what these suckers will cost without a plan attached to them.
188 posted on 01/09/2007 5:30:54 PM PST by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: Terpfen
Not every company has to own the majority of the market in order to be considered successful or profitable.

I completey agree, my point is Treos and Blackberry's currently rule the PDA phone market, and being already entrenched as well as specialists in this category, they will be hard to supplant.

189 posted on 01/09/2007 5:36:10 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Pukin Dog

Oh, geez, don't even remind me. It's bad enough Apple is making me choose between an iPhone and a Wii...


190 posted on 01/09/2007 5:48:13 PM PST by Terpfen ("Conservatives" who sat at home cost us the War on Terror, SCOTUS, and economic success.)
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To: Swordmaker

OK, I admit...I want. It's purty, it's got an impressive feature-set, and it appeals to my inner gadget geek.

Now...if I only had a device for fast-forwarding six months...and an extra five or six hundred bucks lying around.


191 posted on 01/09/2007 5:50:07 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: July 4th
Apple can sell these things to the world. Nevermind that Verizon is the major and more reliable carrier in many markets.

True. True.

192 posted on 01/09/2007 5:51:36 PM PST by vox_freedom (Matthew 5:37 But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no)
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To: Swordmaker
thnx for the ping.

I want one. Now.
Anyone care to buy me out of eleven months of a Sprint contract?

193 posted on 01/09/2007 5:53:56 PM PST by vox_freedom (Matthew 5:37 But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no)
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To: Pukin Dog
Verizon will have this phone soon enough.

I hope so, because that's the only way I'd consider buying one. I switched to Verizon from Cingular because Cingular's service in my area is so bad. Going back to them, even to get the iPhone, is not an option.

194 posted on 01/09/2007 6:01:25 PM PST by CFC__VRWC (AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - Don't liberals just kill ya?)
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To: RosieCotton
There is one low tech way.



It might backfire though. You better trust the person who is supposed to revive you.
195 posted on 01/09/2007 6:02:43 PM PST by Mr. Blonde (Like I always say, there's no "I" in team. There's a "me" though, if you jumble it up.)
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To: Mr. Blonde

LOL!

I didn't see that episode, but I heard about it.


196 posted on 01/09/2007 6:03:19 PM PST by RosieCotton
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To: CFC__VRWC
You know what the worst thing is about this phone? In June, every Real Geek and their brother will camp out in line for days to snap up all the retail phones. Then, suckers will pay $1000 on Ebay and the hype will go on and on and on.
197 posted on 01/09/2007 6:06:17 PM PST by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: Pukin Dog

Hell, there'll be people fetching $5K and $6K easy for them - if they could get that much for a PS3 on eBay, getting that for an iPhone will be a snap. Hopefully Apple does a better job anticipating demand than Sony did with the PS3.


198 posted on 01/09/2007 6:16:23 PM PST by CFC__VRWC (AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - Don't liberals just kill ya?)
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To: Swordmaker
I've finished watching the Apple keynote now. It was an interesting contrast to the Bill Gates keynote at CES a couple of days ago. The CES audience sometimes had to be told when to applaud. At the Apple event, it was all spontaneous.

Microsoft's vision of future technology was violent, bombastic and overwhelming to the senses. Gates demonstrated things like bedrooms with walls literally covered with giant computer screens instead of wallpaper, and kitchen countertops with giant recipes for focaccia projected on the surface.

In comparison, Apple's presentation showed technology that was practical, easy-to-use, tasteful, compelling and affordable. I can't wait to get an iPhone for internet features like portable web browsing. And the iPhone will be wide-open for third party developers to add OS X software like Dashboard widgets and Cocoa applications.

There were some unusual things about Apple's show today. For the first time ever at MacWorld, no new Macs were introduced. Nor was an update given for the release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Ordinarily, those omissions would be disappointments. But the iPhone was so incredible, those things were not missed.

199 posted on 01/09/2007 6:18:45 PM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: Pukin Dog; Spiff

I believe it's Cingular exclusive because Cingular helped develop the phone network side of their voice mail system. You know, the cool feature where you can look at your voice mails on the screen and manually decide which one to listen to based on the sender.

That required cooperation from the upstream network and so it was necessary to work with one provider to design what was needed.

I've noticed an almost universal set of reactions to this phone:

1 WOW! We have to get one of these!

2 $499-$599! Ulp. Ouch. that's pretty expensive for a phone, but cheap for what this bad boy can do. I'm still onboard.

3 Cingular! OUCH! I hate those guys.

In other words, Cingular seems to be the biggest obstacle.

Unfortunately, from what I can see, Verizon doesn't seem to play nice with device manufacturers. Apparently they have some very negative policies when it comes to what features a phone placed on their network can do.

You may notice that they don't have the Blackberry Pearl either. The best phones seem to always wind up in the clutches of the worst providers (Cingular, T-Mobile).

Pity :-(.

D


200 posted on 01/09/2007 6:24:59 PM PST by daviddennis (If you like my stuff, please visit amazing.com, my new social networking site!)
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