Apple introduces iPhone

Engadget ^ | Jan 9, 2007 | Chris Ziegler

[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.

[Mr. Blonde]

I know a lot of people who complain that a lot of new phones are too small. Just goes to show you can't please all the people all the time. I can't wait to get one.

[Dysart]

Thanks. I stopped reading after I saw the "C" word.

[BunnySlippers]

About a half hour ago he said it is $299.00 ... shipping in Feb.

[antiRepublicrat]

How cool is that?

Very cool, but I'm wondering how it will work for women with long nails.

[BunnySlippers]

February if I remember correctly. $299.00 is what I see on the NYSE broadtape.

[reagan_fanatic]

I want one that will track my kids via GPS no matter where they are and without then knowing it ;)

[romanesq]

Uh oh, the features on this phone are insane.
You are not going to believe this. It includes a browser and...

it can connect to websites including Google maps and...
it tells you where you ARE!

Holy Moly, this thing is going to sell. Apple stock is now up over $2.

WoW!

[NinoFan]

It's a video iPod, a cell phone, an internet communicator.. It runs OS X, Safari, and other applications.

MULTI-TOUCH... This is amazing. I could easily see this being 600-800 bucks.

[af_vet_rr]

The whole interface is just incredible. The industry has had years to get a good interface, especially for smartphones/PDA devices. We get these little micro-improvements every few years, just enough to get us to uprade.

I hate tiny buttons, I hate tiny phones (large hands), I want Wifi, what with the connectivity that is cropping up all over the place.

I would have designed this phone, if somebody asked me what I wanted.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Why will it fail as a phone? Because it can fit in a pocket?

Because it looks like it'll be a tight fit in most pockets. Don't get me wrong, I'm definitely getting one. Just not sure based on the photo that enough people will buy it for phone use because of it's size.

[BunnySlippers]

What is REALLY unique is the way you navigate through it. Doesn't have any buttons and no wheel like the iPod. It has translucent numbers that light up.

You navigate by touch.

[romanesq]

Oh darn, I must have just skipped right past it. Thanks.
So $299, insane.

Wish I still had my Apple stock.

[Izzy Dunne]

Apparently it has GPS on board - it knows where you are.

You can have it find a Restaurant nearby.

[HAL9000]

I think it will be a moderate hit as the successor to the video iPod, but a failure as a phone.

I'll make the opposite prediction - this device is almost a revolution in mobile telecommunications. Apple will sell tons of them.

[BunnySlippers]

Trading at 90.31 right now. Up over 4 points.

[NinoFan]

I think 299.99 is the Apple TV. There's no way all of this can be just 299.99

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Terpfen]

Oh, come on. The Blackberry is bigger than this thing--that didn't exactly stop its adoption, did it?

[SengirV]

That was for a different product.

[Domandred]

I don't normally care about cell phones, I have a razr v3, nothing really special.

But for some reason this sweet thing as got my attention. I'm drooling, and I'm already on Cingular :)