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- Ninjab3ar, on 11/05/2007, -21/+761AW MAN! Now that means I have to come to work in a ballerina suit. (Why did I make that bet?!)
- otheruser, on 11/05/2007, -8/+574Price = "as much as we ***** want"
- InSeverance, on 11/12/2007, -80/+480WOW!
- NeutrinoQ, on 10/12/2007, -50/+375Totally Fake. ;)
- recipher, on 10/12/2007, -15/+332Better pics from http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/live-from-macworld-2007-steve-jobs-keynote/...
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/144/dsc0184hw3.jpg
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2780/dsc0186vc6.jpg
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/7157/dsc0182hb7.jpg - quickslvr1287, on 11/12/2007, -42/+305so long zune
- lukeamotion, on 11/05/2007, -46/+289My HATE for Cingular overpowers my LOVE for Apple. So sorry Apple until it's available everywhere else I won't be buying it.
- Oakes, on 11/05/2007, -19/+241Everyone kept speaking of the widescreen iPod and iPhone as separate things. This is really a big surprise.
- mrRB, on 11/05/2007, -28/+215Don't worry. Microsoft will just come out with a new Zune that does the same thing two years from now.
- Quix, on 11/05/2007, -62/+246Zune what?
Today is the day we all dance around flag564's lifeless body. His head exploded after his flaming Apple hate finally went critical mass. Ding dong, the troll is dead.
Now how much $$$, Steve, how much $$$?
Goodbye Treo. Goodbye Blackberry. Goodbye Windows Mobile. Goodbye Zune. We hardly even knew ye. - phprock, on 10/12/2007, -26/+201now switching from Verizon to Cingular!
- BasouKazuma, on 11/05/2007, -9/+1731700 diggs in 40 minutes? WTF
- DudeTheNerd, on 10/12/2007, -56/+220Tears of Joy
- Chewie67, on 10/12/2007, -28/+160Darn. I actually was hoping for the widescreen iPod that wasn't the iPhone.
Maybe that will be down the road... Just a widescreen without the phone. I doubt it, but maybe.
This alienates all of the Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobil customers. - mdweaver7485, on 11/05/2007, -19/+147Somewhere Bill Gates is crying right now. When Ballmer throws a chair an iPhone gets its wings. Point is this think is freakin sweet. Now if it only streamed to the Apple TV.
- matrox212, on 11/12/2007, -35/+156You can bet your ass that Apple products wouldn't be as good if they didn't have a giant like Microsoft to compete with.
- sonofalink, on 10/12/2007, -7/+128Cingular just made an ass-ton load of money.
- betterth, on 10/12/2007, -9/+122I never thought I would want this phone.
I yawned at the rumors, scoffed at the hype.
But suddenly, reading this keynote as it happens, knowing Jobs is holding that thing on the other side of this country, I want it. I want it bad. I hope I don't have to switch to Cingular, I like my T-Mobile plans.... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -36/+147A phone, even a super-advanced phone like this, costs as much as a PlayStation 3? AND you have to sign up for a 2-year contract with Cingular on top of that? What the *****? Why does it feel like Apple is gonna be screwing people...
- spoonz, on 10/12/2007, -24/+127499/599 + a 2 year cingular contract?!?!
No thanks, I think I'll feed my family for two months instead.
I would love to buy one without all that phone crap in there though. - andrewcod, on 10/12/2007, -8/+109Stats: 3.5 inch widescreen, 11.6mm thick, uses multi-finger gestures, runs slimmed down OS X, syncs calendars, contacts, etc., core animation built in, syncs everything through iTunes, can tell if being held vertically or horizontally - changes screen display to suit, highest res display they've ever shipped, conference calling...just puch a contact to add them in. More still coming in....
- Weichkeks, on 11/12/2007, -5/+104I just dropped my mobile... against the wall.
Three times.
I think i need a new phone... - joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -11/+99"Why did it take this many years and Apple Computer to provide this phone?"
Bigger question: Why, after all these years, have none of the cell phone companies even gotten close to this iPhone?
This is an amazing phone. I'm really a phone luddite, and hate cell phones for the most part. But this really does look nice! - anasazi, on 10/12/2007, -11/+95so will this scratch up real bad when you put it in your pocket like the nano did?
- brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -38/+120They jumped the shark.
Its a fragile, expensive kitchen sink device with no focus or real-world mobile form factor considerations (cept size).
Apple is trying to keep the ball rolling with the success of the MacBook and iPod (I've owned one Blackbook and purchased 5 iPods, and spent 2 years doing mobile device development), but this keynote saw them going in the wrong direction.
1. The first thing you make sure of in a mobile phone is to insure people feel comfortable handling it, stuffing it in their pocket or purse, and dropping it. This thing is just a huge expensive screen (it costs the same as a 30" widescreen HDTV). I treat my video ipod like royalty and the screen is a disaster - I dont want to think about what it would look like if I treated it like my cell phone.
2. The mobile device world is not naive about touchscreen keyboards/keypads - they have been around forever - people hate them, universally. This is why we have physical thumbboards - people LIKE them. People *want* tactile feedback when they type. The touchscreen is a compromise to jam the widescreen in. Having buttons is GOOD. This single 'feature' was a death knell for this phone.
3. $599 for only 8GB and a TWO-YEAR contract?
I haven't signed a mobile contract (or switched carriers) in years, I just swap sim cards.
Unlocked GSM please.
4. The screenshots of the web browser looked like safari wasnt compensating at all for the screen size - I couldnt read any of the hyperlinks on the amazon page and it was blown up on a movie screen. Safari was just pretending it was a tiny monitor and shrunk everything. Did Apple even look at the Blackberry or Opera Mobile browsers?
5. Did he show any pictures taken with the camera, or did the bloggers just miss it?
6. YMail instead of GMail?
7. No IM clients?!
8. This isnt a problem with the iPhone its a tricky usability problem with any musicphone.
My K700i played music but there was an awkward catch to it. I always had a music player with me, but for that reason I always needed to carry the special stereo wired headset too just in case I wanted to listen to music, which I never did. As a result, I never really used the music feature. Now I have a blackberry and dont carry any headset, and if I want music I will bring an iPod. This sounds like a weird argument but if you had one you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
9. No upgradable storage.
Apple has always had a pretty much zero tolerance policy on upgrading products - just buy a new one, its better!
You can buy 8GB of SD memory from retailer NewEgg for $90, but evidentally, Apple charges $200.
Want more? Spend another $600 in 2009 (you wont be able to do it in 2008 because of your two-year contract!)!
10. Battery life. Nuff said. - ScornForSega, on 10/12/2007, -1/+82$599 U.S. Dollars?
Where have I heard that before? - mantar, on 11/12/2007, -27/+108But some just call him Steve...
- Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -6/+78Steve loves making great money even more
- ScornForSega, on 10/12/2007, -5/+73Here's hoping they don't use the same uber-fragile finish that they've been putting on their iPods.
I can keep my iPod babied in a case... I need my phone to be more rugged. - andrewthrice, on 10/12/2007, -10/+74I'm getting excited and I'm not even a fanboy - looks like a beautiful device.
- Dolomite, on 11/12/2007, -2/+62Kevin Rose was WAAAAAAY off in his prediction.
- chesterjosiah, on 10/12/2007, -5/+60Now, if only Cingular would pay for people's early termination of their T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint contracts, and let them keep their same phone number. . . .
- Konrad9, on 10/12/2007, -10/+63iPhone/iPod... same thing. ZOMG NEW PHONE TIME :D
- cmcarson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+52damn you verizon, damn you.
- nejlepsi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+53No, Rose spoke about two batteries, slide-out keypad, none of those are there. Until now also looks that there will be only one version of the phone, not two. But it seems even much better that what Rose described!
- betterth, on 10/12/2007, -5/+52"- Touchscreen keyboard that you use with your fingers... and it's QWERTY of all things!"
I know! I agree completely! How dare they use the standard keyboard layout that 99% of computer users are familiar with. They should have forced users to learn an entirely new key scheme because theoretically, they'll be faster in the long run.
"- No small screen rendering in Safari. Come on. It's not a high resolution screen. Trying to display web pages with teeny-tiny text and then allowing you to zoom in is not a good solution. See Opera Mobile for a good example of small screen rendering. It should at least be an option."
As its natively running OSX, you can download another browser if you so desire. I'm sure if it's that big of a deal, Opera will release an OSX version of their mobile browser.
- End call is a big touch screen button. Didn't we learn anything from the touch screen Treos? I don't want the call to end when i bump my big floppy ears.
Apparently you missed the proximity sensor that disables the touchscreen when you bring the phone to your ear. It would be impossible accidentally close a call with your ears.
- Synchronizing contacts with iTunes? No thanks. We need other options. Most of the world uses Outlook. I use Evolution, since I primarily use Linux and we have an exchange server at the office. Over the air syncing with an exchange server would be the most ideal.
Again, write the app to do so. They've made sure that we can run what we want on this phone, not just a horribly confined piece of crap program like we have on Nokia & Moto, etc phones. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -25/+72Too bad they are the worst carrier ever.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -27/+73only 8gb hd? should be larger.
- betterth, on 10/12/2007, -7/+50@Quix
Buying the Apple-hype and pretending its not a for-profit company making billions of dollars for investors is just retarded.
Yes, they innovate and make amazing products. They've realized that in order to make money, you need a great product. To make a great product, it starts with their developers. They foster a certain type of environment in the workplace, a certain need for perfection and it shows.
But at the end of the day. It's still a company like Microsoft, who's only goal is the consumers dollar. Period. - WiZZLa, on 10/12/2007, -38/+79Nice.
No GPS.
No 3G/HSDPA/UTMS.
No slide out QWERTY keyboard like Kevin said.
$600 with a 2 YEAR CONTRACT on Cingular of all carriers.
Resolution seems to be 480x270.
Battery life seems decent, but hopefully the battery is removable (so you can carry more than 1).
How is it the most "technically advanced phone" when it still uses EDGE?
At first I liked it, but as I had all the specs summed up, I became disappointed. - Rikkochet, on 10/12/2007, -17/+58Why did it take this many years and Apple Computer to provide this phone?
Didn't we all know we wanted it ages ago? Nokia and Motorola and the like really screwed the pooch here - Apple has created a thing of beauty. - Lazrius, on 11/12/2007, -25/+66There is a god!
- arneldos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39http://www.apple.com/iphone/
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39@Pokez
If you were a former AT&T Wireless customer who experienced the "merger", you would know what we're talking about.
I had great service for years with AT&T. Literally the week that the merger took place, my signal strength went from average of 4-5 bars down to 1-2 in my home office. Sometimes calls would go through, sometimes not. Calls dropped all the time even when there was good signal strength. On several occasions, voice mails that I had deleted a year prior magically showed up in my mailbox again. I even had other people's voice mails show up from time to time.
I had long been out of my contract with AT&T when I called Cingular to change my plan. All I wanted to do was lower my minutes to the next tier. I was informed that if I made any change to my plan I would loose free nights and weekends unless I transferred to a new Cingular account (requiring a new 2 year contract). I was told this by many CSRs, managers, etc. I resisted for months, but finally decided to take the plunge. I called to set up my new account and was told that my Treo650 was carrier-locked to AT&T and that I could not set up a new Cingular account unless I bought a new phone.
Those are my opinionated facts. - andrewcod, on 10/12/2007, -5/+42NOTE: Prices mentioned above include a 2 year contract with Cingular
- csimpkins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37Now you just need some friends to call.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -50/+86$499 Hell no! I will not pay that much for a god damned phone!
- andrewcod, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Price for 4GB is $499, 8GB is $599
Shipping in June (Europe 4th Cal '07, Asia 2008)
Cingular is exclusive partner in the US. - prot0col, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36sma4GB model - $499
8GB model - $599
available: shipping in June - afreytes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31Please, please Steve!
Don't make it be cingular only! -
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