This will render every other cell phone obsolete overnight >>

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Very, VERY cool.

 

I have been telling my friend that is an engineer at motorola that they needed to make a ful touch screen phone... they should have listened to me.

 

I'm not sure it would have made much difference. Apple is able to leverage other technologies it has been/and is developing that Motorola, frankly, can't touch.

Apple has also changed its name from Apple Computer Inc., to just Apple Inc., as it positions itself as a full-fledged consumer electronics company.

They also showed off the latest model of iTV, which the company has renamed Apple TV. Apple TV acts as a set-top box for enjoying iTunes content on televisions sets, as opposed to on computer monitors or tiny iPod screens, and positions Apple as a competitor, in some respects, to cable and satellite TV operators.

Lots more on the iPhone here.

 

Looks very cool... just wish it came in white

 

Cingular is the service provider that they are rolling with? Looks cool though.

 

That was like so all over the news in BC today Black Berry & i-Pod as they duke it out. How long ago was it we had to put a saddle on a horse, we are moving way to fast, makes us age quicker lol

 

Motorola chips are probably running on that thing anyway

 

If it's i-pod it most likely will just watch. I was going Thunderpant shopping but this happened to us
On the other hand I'm just a bit Pv'd I just bought an 80 Gig i-pod yesterday.

 

That device is going to revolutionize communication as we know it, I suggest buying stock in it, if your into that sort of thing.

 

Actually, my bet would be that it's running an Intel XScale processor, like a number of Windows mobile devices do. Given the price, $499 for the 4 GB and $599 for the 8GB, this is competing less with things like the Motorola RAZR and more with the Blackberry. And keep in mind those are the subsidized prices when you get it with a 2 year contract. And of course, good luck blind-dialing on that thing with no tactile-feedback. That said, I still want one really bad, and I don't even like Apple.

 

Apple is saying it is running OS X, so it's either using a low power PowerPC chip, or low power x86 Intel chip. Either that, or they ported OS X to the Arm architecture as well (XScale).

This is the first "smartphone" I'm considering. All the other ones seem so focused around enterprise mail use and such, this one looks to just work with my IMAP server. And the internet features actually look useful. Being that I already use OS X's iCal and Address Book, this will integrate in nicely.

I'm njust debating on if I should get the first one out, or hold off for the 3G one. Guess it all depends on how much the data plans end up being.

 

Yeah sure it will..until you toss it in your pocket with your keys and wreck the touch screen then wish you never got rid of your razor flip phone

Just more elitist crap

You have a Razor..well I have an Iphone....
next sound you hear is me punching the elitist apple jackhole in the face

 

lol

I kinda dig it.

Doug- With my Han Solo vest, I have enough pockets to keep it seperate from my keys, wallet, knives....

 

Wow, you must be out in the valley - we didn't get it nearly that bad in Van. Nice pic, though!

 

I'm waiting...

Microlimp SUX!

 

Cingular (the name) is going away before the end of 2007. It will be rolled into AT&T Wireless.

 

Bah!!

Just another gee gaw to play with when you're supposed to be driving...



Hope all you techno-geeks have fun with it.
I'll keep my V365 for awhile yet.

 

very cool looking, but this isn't going to put too big of a dent in the wireless phone market. If they get the 1% sales they are looking at, it's only something like 10 million phones in a billion phone market.

Plus you have to remember that the normal person doesn't have a $400.00 phone. They have the $50.00 phone, if not the free one. And maybe they have an Ipod, but there are different levels.

Plus, I just bought a PDA phone and I know I wouldn't use the entertainment capabilities of the Iphone, so it's not going to sell to everyone. One thing that I DO like about the iphone is the big hard drive, assuming that I could save data to it. That would be really cool, instead of having to swap out miniSD cards all the time.

And I'd like to know what the total deal is with AppleTV, because I have a buddy with a Slingbox and that is something I'm considering buying. You can watch any channel on your tv through an internet connection, including your WiFi phone. AND you can record to your hard drive, if you want and it's only like $150.00 and a quick set up, too.

 

Well, one would hope if you're gonna spend $500 on a phone you'd be smart enough to buy a nice carrying case or something to stop it from getting screwed up.

And, as I said before, this is more of a Blackberry alternative. Which leaves me puzzled at a few things. Based on it's specifications, this phone is not 3G (despite Cingular having finally rolled out a 3G data network), and it does not support Microsoft Exchange. The latter makes it pretty much a no-go for business environments.


Oh, and there's this: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/10/D8MIN3LO0.html



Edit: Reuters has confirmed that whatever is in the iPhone is not an Intel processor. However, humorously enough, this doesn't rule out the XScale, I had forgotten that Intel sold it in June of last year.
http://mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/F...ml?src=RSS-BUS

 

Victoria Colwood Langford