skdr Posted January 9, 2007 Report Posted January 9, 2007 http://www.apple.com/iphone/ I'm sold. Quote
SnipaMasta Posted January 9, 2007 Report Posted January 9, 2007 Plenty of phones just as good as this already out and probably not as overpriced. Quote
Bic-B@ll Posted January 9, 2007 Report Posted January 9, 2007 what, an apple product with the color black? any who, looks neat, but its just another thing that EVERYONE HAS TO HAVE ONE RIGHT NOW GOGOGOG AND THERES NO POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE EVER. and they'll release 12 generations in the next 3 years with increasing prices and if you own the previous generation you have sex with your brother. stuff like that. but it is pretty cool admittedly. edit: they picked an excellent video to demonstrate the video function edit2: if you're going to put google maps on an all in one device, put a fucking gps in it Quote
Fletch Posted January 9, 2007 Report Posted January 9, 2007 I'll be getting one of those first thing. No questions asked. I've been resisting getting an all-in-one phone, but this wins. I don't care about the price. It does everything I want it to do and it does it well, unlike most of the stuff that is on the market. Apple wins. Quote
Izuno Posted January 9, 2007 Report Posted January 9, 2007 yes apple wins. Verizon loses. US market iPhone will be Cingular for now (prob years). My cousin, my fiance, my best friend and I all use Verizon Wireless and I love the in-network free calls. So far my cousin and my fiance both want to switch to cingular cause of this. i think i'm going to as well. edit: what about integrated calendar function? I have a Treo and besides the phone/contacts, i use the Calendar app more than anything else. It is absolutely critical for me (and many others) to have an up to date calendar function on their phone that syncs with whatever you need it to. Does this thing do that? I didn't see it in the demo. I see "Calendar" in the demo as an app, but is that a scheduling tool or just a literal calendar so you can remember the date? Quote
dissonance Posted January 9, 2007 Report Posted January 9, 2007 completely different looking than what i expected Quote
Bic-B@ll Posted January 9, 2007 Report Posted January 9, 2007 what about integrated calendar function? I have a Treo and besides the phone/contacts, i use the Calendar app more than anything else. It is absolutely critical for me (and many others) to have an up to date calendar function on their phone that syncs with whatever you need it to. Does this thing do that? I didn't see it in the demo. I see "Calendar" in the demo as an app, but is that a scheduling tool or just a literal calendar so you can remember the date? im guessing you can add your own widgets and someone would make one Quote
Skjalg Posted January 10, 2007 Report Posted January 10, 2007 Im worried that the keyboard will get clumsy. Quote
MrH2o Posted January 10, 2007 Report Posted January 10, 2007 iPhone eh? What a creative name.... :roll: Pros + Apple design + Black + Widgets + Touch sensitive (can use both hands) + Sideviewing Cons - Big? - 5 hour talk? not for girls - No cover, will be scratchy This is like every other Apple products (read: Ipod) There are plenty of good if not even better products but people choose Apple cause its trendy. As an example can I mention that putting or sharing music is 100 times easier with my Iriver then with my dads Ipod, but if people wanna spend money on overpriced products then fine. Quote
skdr Posted January 10, 2007 Author Report Posted January 10, 2007 5 hour battery life is the result if you use video, music, camera and phone. If you only listen to music, it has 16 hour battery life. I think with phone, it's something between, not 5. Quote
Fletch Posted January 10, 2007 Report Posted January 10, 2007 Replying to complaints and queries: Is it big? Nope. From the size comparisons I've seen, it's thinner than the Pearl and Blackjack, but slightly wider and taller than them. NYTimes also has a tech article saying it has a good weight to it. Not too light to feel flimsy but not too heavy to feel bulky. Does it have a calendar? In the keynote, Jobs said it could sync up with any iLife or Outlook data, including calendars, notes, and contact lists. Assuming you use Outlook's calendar or iCal, you should be fine. Cover coating? The NYTimes article interviewed one of the tech guys who said the coating has been one of their biggest R&D tasks and that it is designed to survive in a modern pocket. I wouldn't throw your keys around with it, but I have faith they'll get a nice feel to it. Other phones doing the same thing? Nope. Not even close. I've played around with a Pearl and a Blackjack during my recent phone shopping trips. Neither of them touch the functionality I saw during the keynote video. WindowsCE is a clumsy operating system, and most of the features you try to use are just too cumbersome to bother with. It's no use checking a map if it takse 3 minutes to load and is completely illegible at screen resolution. I haven't seen any other phone that smart loads phone numbers from mobile web pages they way the iPhone did. This thing is running OS X natively. That's about 10 years of advanced tech past WinCE and Blackberry. Plus, at the end of the day, it's Apple, and they know how to make the best UIs on earth. Only 8GB: Cry me a river. I've got a 40 GB iPod if I need all of that music at once for some reason. 8GB is about 22 hours. I think I'll be fine with a wide array of music at my finger tips. I can see how people don't want to pony up $600. I get that. I've got the disposable income (/me hugs GBX), so I might as well. Why be a tech geek if you don't get to be an early adopter? Sure, half the guys at work will get one, too, but we'll be really cool when we pull them out at lunch. If you just want the iPod functionality, wait until Christmas. It wouldn't surprise me if they release a touch screen iPod to replace the top end iPods for the holiday shopping season. Lord knows they'd make an even bigger killing. P.S. The big winner in all of this is Cingular. Apple is shipping 10 million of these thinfs to the States by 2008. That's a lot of new customers. Plus, these are high dollar customers that are willing to buy expensive phones and expensive rate plans. Smart, smart guys to sign on to this deal sight unseen. Plus, Apple is going to use their clout to force them to upgrade the GSM-EDGE network to adhere to their quality levels. Quote
Izuno Posted January 10, 2007 Report Posted January 10, 2007 peronally i care less and less about the 8 gig capacity. I know, I know, we all want integrated phone/ipod. I think that with this, the amazing super A.W.E.S.O.M - O feature is the much nicer web browsing and easy to use mobile email. As long as I can check multiple email accounts such as my gmail and pop3 email systems I'm on with a couple of my clients, again I'm happy. As long as the Calendar function has pretty much all the same capabilities of a Treo w/Palm system, I'm happy with that. I hate outlook but still use a PC so maybe syncing will be less clear but oh well. Oh wait did i mention the mobile google maps? Yeah...i'll be needing that especially when I fly up to the Bay area for a day or sheesh to Seattle where I still don't have a clue where I'm going. Oh yeah, would be nice to actually be able to ready an HTML webpage cause lets face it, the current mobile interent blows and using websites on my Treo is a fracking joke. Oh size? Looks roughly the same size as my Treo. nuff said. Originally posted by Fletch Other phones doing the same thing? Nope. Not even close. I've played around with a Pearl and a Blackjack during my recent phone shopping trips. Neither of them touch the functionality I saw during the keynote video. WindowsCE is a clumsy operating system, and most of the features you try to use are just too cumbersome to bother with. It's no use checking a map if it takse 3 minutes to load and is completely illegible at screen resolution. I haven't seen any other phone that smart loads phone numbers from mobile web pages they way the iPhone did. This thing is running OS X natively. That's about 10 years of advanced tech past WinCE and Blackberry. Plus, at the end of the day, it's Apple, and they know how to make the best UIs on earth. Zing. I will never want Windows on my mobile device...at least not what I've seen on the Blackjack. I got a Palm based Treo for that reason. Don't get me wrong, I love XP on my MacbookPro (thanks, bootcamp) but have you tried the WinCE or other Windows Mobile? Mobile Outlook? I would rather use a pen/paper calendar that Mobile Outlook. Finally...I'm on Verizon. Bah...I guess I'll eventually switch to Cingular to get this thing, but as I said earlier I'm gonna want everyone I know to be on Cingular too cause I'm a cheap bastard when it comes to monthly minute use over the long haul. Quote
Ginger Lord Posted January 10, 2007 Report Posted January 10, 2007 Not one part of this appeals to me. Wonder what happens if/when it gets to Europe. Quote
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