Evening Reading
- Dell wants you!
- Big TV
- BR/HDDVD backers not happy with hybrids
- Pillars of creation
Lastly, buzz around the latest crop of US concept cars. Hopefully its not flies circling poop!
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tomservo
replyI want an iPhone but only if Steve Jobs gives me wake up calls every morning.
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I just wish they hadn't shacked up with Cingular. The price point is a little high too, but I didn't expect much less. I just think Cingular was a bad choice. :(
Here's to hoping some of those features trickle down to the iPod line sometime soon...-
Cingular's the company I'll switch to if I switch anyway, so that's actually kind of nice from my perspective. Other choices would have irritated me though.
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i'm just waiting to see if cingular will cripple this phone at all, and how hard it will be to get it unlocked..
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Why is Cingular any worse than any other provider?
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It looks so good. I have been skeptical of the whole smartphone thing so far, because they just don't do enough to justify the additional size and cost. But with the iPhone being basically a pocket computer... and the potential of complex custom development given it runs OS X... I'm sold. Being able to GMail, GMaps, GTalk, and the web anywhere would be sweet.
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Most smart phones are expensive, and the damn thing is definitely more powerful than the others (I mean Christ, it's running OS X). I've always wanted to go back to a Smartphone, and to merge my MP3 player with it (but keep good functionality), so I'm really happy. I just wish it had an SD slot.
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wtf! thinner than a razr!? thats crazily awesome.
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Size comparison:
http://www.kottke.org/07/01/the-apple-iphone -
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I'm probably gonna wait 'til Gen 2 comes out. 6 GB/8 GB is not enough. NOT ENOUGH!
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update: still fapping.
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DUDES THE BATTERY LIFE IS TERRIBLE : (
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in the keynote it was listed as 5 hours talking, watching movies or surfing the web, 16 hours listening to music in the slides.
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Apple's record on the battery life of their ipod products is actually very good. I don't know what the point of having "16 hours of audio with wifi", or whatever it was you were curious about, but I fully expect to get 5 hours of use out of it, if that is what they are claiming (or 16 hours of audio, etc).
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Battery is being reported as NON removable/replaceable by the user, yay :/ Also http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/macworld2007/gizmodo-iphone-handson-i-called-my-mommy-227582.php has a pretty decent handson, sounds like they like it.
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* 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.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-iphone-is-not-a-smartphone/
that sorta sucks when in perspective.-
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when i travel next year (oz being one of the places) ill have to stop by and say hello. we'll have a mini shackmeet.
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It will be 2008 at the earliest that it comes out in Australia so it's best to forget about it for now. Hell, by the time it does hit Australian shores they'll probably have the second revision. I work at an Apple Reseller and spent all day trying to explain this to people. People were still insisting that we let them pre-order the iPhones even though we may not even be able to sell them (if it's contract only like in the US they'll have to go to phone retailers).
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yeah, I'm wondering if the support goes as far as they do, but no further, thus making it not 'full support', at which point they wouldn't make a noise out of it?
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I, for one, have a 3G signal where I'm sitting.
If I hold the phone above my head and wave a plucked fresh chicken around with my other hand.-
heh. didn't they just wind up destroying the whole concept anyway? i mean, really, the third generation has been released -- it's just that it's actual capabilities were so far below the expected capabilities that they tried to call it something different.
i want this crap rated on transfer rates or some other certain, objective unit of measure. the whole generational numbering scheme is just total idiocy invented by marketroids for drop-out journalists and isn't suitable for any real thought.
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actually, yeah, that surprised me, I was expecting to see Jobs fire up a three way video-chat with Ive and Schiller.
my W900i has video calling.. but it's something stupid like 35p/minute off peak, 50p minute peak rate.. so it's completely unused.
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Biggest deal is no 3rd party software. WTF? That is one of the things that draws me to a smartphone. Not sending email on a tiny screen that will spent 30 minutes downloading all my spam and be useless to me, for all the best intentions, but being able to get a wide range of software, like maps and journey planners for the city I'm in or the city I'm visiting, useful tools like special calculators or guides, interesting games from a wide range of authors (on Symbian UIQ many being free).
Clearly it's a win for Apple, and in their tradition, if they can keep all of this proprietary but, apart from being able to supply a small number of games through partners like they have with the iPod, I don't think Apple on their own, or with a handful of partners, will be enough to match the software you can get for UIQ or Windows Mobile.
(Series 60 has a lot of software too but as far as I can tell it's almost all awful and overpriced. I was really disappointed when I moved from a UIQ smartphone to Series 60, which also has a fucking awful UI that Nokia need to kill already. Never buying Nokia ever again.)
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the only reason i wont get it is because ill drop it 30 times and the screen will break on the first one :[
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then you drop it 29x more for good measure???
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