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I think this is pretty cool. Hope to get one as soon as they hit Europe in late 2007.


I want one NOW! I love my Razr, but this looks SUPER COOL! I wonder if it is going to implement stereo blue tooth so you don't have to be wired to it AT ALL! That would be REALLY NICE!
 
I so want one of these yesterday. I have been waiting for months to upgrade my crappy motorola phone based on rumors of this product, and now I have to wait another five months. :(

I think they have landed a home run with the design of this phone. It seems pretty incredible. I have read a lot of people complaining that it doesn't have this or that feature, but this is just the initial release. Look at how the IPod has progressed from the original version. As good as the IPhone looks now, I imagine the second and third generations will be even better.

The hardware design and software capabilities of this phone appear to be light years ahead of anything else currently available. Go Apple.
 
James,

I have been holding off on the razr knowing this would soon come to market. Here's some specs I found: "The phone is 11.6 millimeters thick with a 3.5-inch glassy touchscreen, thinner than such models as the 13.7-millimeter Nokia N76 phone unveiled by the world's largest cellphone maker earlier this week and Motorola's 14-millimeter Razr."

And Rich, I agree. Every subsequent upgrade to an Appple product is nothing short of spectacular and so easy to use.
 
Looks very interesting, and MIGHT be the "Treo Killer," but it lacks a keypad, and has ?? battery life. Regardless, Apple is a Gorilla entering a new market, and it's footsteps were heard loud and clear on Wall Street!
 
Looks very interesting, and MIGHT be the "Treo Killer," but it lacks a keypad, and has ?? battery life. Regardless, Apple is a Gorilla entering a new market, and it's footsteps were heard loud and clear on Wall Street!

If you haven't already, go to the Apple site and click on the iPhone link. If you have Quicktime on your machine, it will run through demos of how it all works. There will be buttons in the text to select each feature you wish to view. The playback is effectively the equivalent of realtime, so the scrolling, movies, etc. happen just that fast.

The white dot floating around is your fingertip - no stylus needed. The keypad and keyboards are implemented in software via the touchscreen. It also has something similar to T9 in that as you type on the keyboard (full alphanumeric) it anticipates the word(s) you are typing and even corrects spelling on the fly.

The tech specs say 5 hours talking/watching video/etc., and 16 hours as a music device (e.g. iPod). It supports quad-GSM, EDGE, and Wifi, and has a slot for a SIM card. It automatically detects when you hold it up to your ear and turns off the display since you can't see it from there. It also senses whether you are holding it in portrait or landscape mode and dynamically changes the display to fit.
 
www.engaget.com has an interesting take

And the reality slowly sets in about what the iPhone is and is not. Noted analyst and Engadget pal Michael Gartenberg stated that the iPhone is first party software ONLY -- i.e. not a smartphone by conventional terms, being that a smartphone is a platform device that allows software to be installed. That means hungry power-users -- you know, those people ready and willing to plunk down $600 for an 8GB musicphone -- won't be able to extend the functionality of their phone any more than Apple (but thankfully not Cingular) dictates. Other unfortunate realities about the device:

No 3G. We know you know, but still, it hurts man.
No over the air iTunes Store downloads or WiFi syncing to your host machine.
No expandable memory.
No removable battery.
No Exchange or Office support.
 
www.engaget.com has an interesting take

And the reality slowly sets in about what the iPhone is and is not. Noted analyst and Engadget pal Michael Gartenberg stated that the iPhone is first party software ONLY -- i.e. not a smartphone by conventional terms, being that a smartphone is a platform device that allows software to be installed. That means hungry power-users -- you know, those people ready and willing to plunk down $600 for an 8GB musicphone -- won't be able to extend the functionality of their phone any more than Apple (but thankfully not Cingular) dictates. Other unfortunate realities about the device:

No 3G. We know you know, but still, it hurts man.
No over the air iTunes Store downloads or WiFi syncing to your host machine.
No expandable memory.
No removable battery.
No Exchange or Office support.

I would imagine the 2nd or 3rd gen will have some of those things. I think synching and OTA iTunes purchases are very important. I'm walking down the street, hear a song I like, ask someone who that is, and *blammo* another couple of nickels for Apple after I buy it. If I had to wait til I got back to the office, who knows ... I might forget all about it.

Note: I'm using the first person pronoun here in general terms. I think I've purchased two songs off iTunes so far :)
 
Finally... a phone for Joey! Goodbye Razr!

The Treo is *still* the phone/PDA for physicians, at least until they start offering ePocrates, Wash Manual, and various specialty medical texts, in a format for the iPhone. But that will eventually happen!
 
The Treo is *still* the phone/PDA for physicians, at least until they start offering ePocrates, Wash Manual, and various specialty medical texts, in a format for the iPhone. But that will eventually happen!

Just offer any kind of stuff in HTML format, and the included Safari browser will let you fly through it.
 
phone looks pretty cool. My wife has the Sony Erricson w810i -- It has an FM tuner plus expandable memory. Right now she has a 2GB card in there for Mp3's. It also has every other standard phone feature....price for anyone is $0-$100.

So if I was to have one, I would rather get a competitors phone that is free or cheap for now
 
It seems very possible that you could use "Skype" on this phone and talk for free.
 
It’s a very cool phone.

I like that it’s a widescreen ipod, touch screen looks very sweet, runs on a full version of Mac OS X.

I don’t like the price tag, $499.99 for 4GB and $599.99 for 8GB version or the June release date. But for those that don’t mind spending 5-600 on a cell phone it should be very nice, I would probably pick one up myself but I just got a new phone and renewed my contract with Sprint last Monday.
 
The Treo is *still* the phone/PDA for physicians, at least until they start offering ePocrates, Wash Manual, and various specialty medical texts, in a format for the iPhone. But that will eventually happen!

I totally agree! I was saying to my wife just the other day that I wished Apple would make a new "NEWTON"! You guys remember those? Been a LONG TIME, but I STILL use my Newton 2100! My friends have been through a ZILLION PDA's and I STILL have my trusty (if not overly large) Newton and it STILL has better handwriting recog than ANYTHING on the market today! AMAZING! Kind of like Martin Logan speakers. You can get an SL3 or Monolith and even though they are old they are still UNREAL! You should see the looks I get when I whip out my Newton! It is FUNNY, people don't even know what it is!

I hope the phone will turn into a more Newton like product vs. an iPod with a built in phone!

I will get one SOON after they come out!
 
It’s a very cool phone.

I don’t like the price tag, $499.99 for 4GB and $599.99 for 8GB version or the June release date. But for those that don’t mind spending 5-600 on a cell phone it should be very nice.

Just like every phone though there will be contract incentives from Cingular which will drop the price a few hundred dollars. And next year they will undoubtably bring to market a less expensive version.
 
Just like every phone though there will be contract incentives from Cingular which will drop the price a few hundred dollars. And next year they will undoubtably bring to market a less expensive version.

I thought of that, thats why I said if I didn't just resigning my contract with Sprint I would be looking at the iPhone. The phone I just got was a $350.00 phone, resigning my contract I got it for $80.00, if I was a new customer to sprint it would have been 39.95. So yes new customers to Cingular should get a pretty good deal.

I watched the press conference and if I recall Steve Jobs said this is the first of three phones they will be coming out with.
 
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Just like every phone though there will be contract incentives from Cingular which will drop the price a few hundred dollars. And next year they will undoubtably bring to market a less expensive version.

I heard that those are the prices with a two year service agreement.

Also, I have a friend who uses Cingular. The advert's about the lowest dropped calls makes me laugh? "What did you say, are you there?"

Its a neat looking phone. Surprised that did not include Wimax (i.e., 4g wireless tech) capabilities as was anticipated. Sprint is rolling out a Wimax network. On the plus side, its pretty cool that they included universal messaging features.

Bone head move on Apple's/Job's part for stealing Cisco's iPhone name. Sound's like they will be having fun in the courts.
 
Bone head move on Apple's/Job's part for stealing Cisco's iPhone name. Sound's like they will be having fun in the courts.

Actually I can't subscribe to the "stealing" thing. There are at least 5 companies, different from Cisco, that use the term iPhone for their gadget, and Cisco has done nothing against them. Of course, if it's Apple using it, some cow milking is appropriate...but I don't think that the final name will be "iPhone". The name is NOT printed on the device, and Steve Jobs just mocks Cisco a little - the whole world knows that the i thing belongs culturally to Apple, even if not legally. I mean, who did ever know about Cisco's - or the other guys' - iPhones ? Nobody... but now Steve rides the wave and everybody will call it iPhone, the real one, even if Apple will label it iPod Phone or Applephone or whatever. It's marketing 101.
 
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