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.
So if I get this, I can avoid buying that GPS navigation system I was looking at?
That information is not correct.
$299 is the price for the new Apple TV box for streaming wireless HDTV that he introduced before the iPhone.
This phone will cost more than $299.
You'll be able to track your kids to the exact basement where they are doing lots of illicit activity.
Wasn't too interested in this phone and not the ipod stuff, but everything else, cool.
The $300 price will be with a two year contract. Trust me.
But Steve just showed it finding itself on Google Maps, then finding a nearby Starbucks.
I don't know how else you do that unless it's a GPS.
If it doesn't have a QWERTY keyboard (on the touch screen or buttons), then I have no use for it as an e-mail device. Trying to "type" on a numeric phone keypad drives me insane.
I'm with you. Those guys need to discover the term "useability", which doesn't mean an engineer stands over your shoulder guiding you and declaring success if the unit doesn't crash.
It's touch screen. The whole thing is a screen. There's no phone keypad.
I'm just thinking that building a "how do I get from here to there?" navigation system on top of this would be trivial since all of the pieces are already in place.
$299.00
Sorry, should add, there is a mock keyboard available on the touch screen. There are no buttons
But what about the email features. I've always hated text messaging and thought you had to be insane to be thumbing like a loon.
Someone must make some sort of mini flat folding keyboard to match with this.
Darn, I just gave away another good idea.
Bye, bye blackberry.
Looks cool. Also looks like a facial grease mirror.
Thank you. I saw the blurb on CNBC. They may have been talking about something else.
Let me looks at the press releases.
With Phone, video, music, internet, email, etc...I believe they will have another winner, leveraging on the success of their iPod. BTW, I have a 30gb Video iPod and love it.
...and I am (as far as home computers go) a died in the wool Microsoft, Dell user. Have a beefed up XPS 600, XPS 400, a couple of beefed up Dimension 300s, etc.
OK, I give up, why?
It just got crazier. Steve Jobs used the "phone" to find a Starbucks near the auditorium, then pushed another button when found to call and order 400 coffees.
Then he uses Google to pull up satellites to show the Washington monument, the Eiffel Tower and the Roman Coliseum.
And you can zoom in on the pictures of the location too.
This is really wild!
I had a very compact one for my Palm V, but even folded it was bigger than the Palm. I'd go for one of those laser-scan keyboards -- turn any flat surface into a keyboard. In any case, this thing puts up a pretty big keyboard on the screen, not good for touch-typing but bigger than the PDA ones where you need a stylus to type.
Screen shots are here.
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