osnews.com — Apple today announced the long awaited iPhone, a device that I predicted about years 1.5 ago that it would happen (I won't forget how a fellow editor from a Mac site emailed me to say that I am crazy after reading my blog back then). But the iPhone is real, and it's public information now. So based on the little we know about the device so far, let
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owen87Jan 10, 2007
Honestly, the iphone looks amazing, and i would really want one, if i needed it, but I dont. The fact of the matter is, I and most people who own blackberries and such, don't need devices like this, they just need a music player. When is the new iPod coming out for the rest of us?
drlhaJan 10, 2007
Personally I thought it was amazingly cheap considering what it is. The thing is basically a pocket Mac with a built in cell phone. This is Apple coming back to the PDA frame in a big way.
nixfuJan 10, 2007
WOW! I was not all that impressed just reading the stuff on the web...but I just WATCHED THE KEYNOTE...and holy crap! It's amazingly well done product.NOBODY has even come CLOSE TO THIS product in the phone market.I will probably never own one because I am one of those people who wishes phones still had dials on them, but wow this was really slick and nicely done.
ddukJan 10, 2007
You might still be able to get hold of the iPhone 'Alpha Edition', they had the old fashioned dials on them and sported no screen as well.
shmattJan 10, 2007
true, if they're the same size, but hopefully the keys are a little bigger and with good UI feedback it could be really nice. Possibly... maybe.
woogsterJan 10, 2007
I disagree about Tengo. Looking at how Tengo works the iPhone seems to use a very similar approach - the layout of the letters is the same (QWERTY), the difference is that the iPhone uses a separate virtual key for each letter while still making use of Tengo/T9 style 'decoding'. Difficult to explain; imagine the Tengo interface ( <a class="user" href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php/15389/Review-TenGO-2.0-and-TenGO-Thumb">http://www.osnews.com/story.php/15389/Review-TenGO-2.0-and-TenGO-Thumb</a> ), now split each button into five buttons but keep detecting them as one and keep interpreting them in the same way via software... Boom! iPhone multi-touch input.I reserve final judgement until I actually use one, but I suspect it could work rather well.
zonk3rJan 10, 2007
I'll bet dollars to donuts that if this is successful under Cingular, Verizon will be chomping at the bit to get their hands on it too.
muikanoJan 10, 2007
You Anglo-centric people. QWERTY keyboards are good for Latin based alphabets but what about Asian ppl? Being able to see '?' is a helluva lot better than typing 'watashi.' Even in hiragana, it's a 3 idyllic characters to 7 english alphabets.I agree about the tactile feedback though. Not being able to scroll up or down without bringing the phone out of your pocket is also peevy. You'd have to bring it out of your pocket everytime you switch to the next song. This is exactly like the ipod video but reverse. Ipod 5g was an ipod that happened to do video. iPhone is a video player/phone that happens to do music.Seriously, Apple, put a clickwheel in there. Or at least the standard mp3 player buttons.