the battery is a potential problem - i heard it's not removeable, and from the first gen ipods that had battery issues, hopefully this will be addressed.
aside from that, this thing looks so damn cool i would kill myself and seven other people to get one.
yeah... it's not gonna turn off man, cuz all controls are touch... So that mean the end call button and all that will be on the phone. So it's probably it'll take some pressure, like not just a bump but a press. lol. So unless your face has the consistency of a rock.... yeah.
I don't like touchscreen phones though. And the price is wayy steep. Altho if you count the fact taht it's a phone, and look at prices out there... it's not too bad when you add in the features (like blackberry's n whatnot).
This isn't my cup o tea, but I guess mucky fingerprinted displays go over well with some crowds. lol.
haha, thatd be sweet but i think samsung wins with their switchblade styled media phone. its some hot stuff. but again, all of it is too pricey and when i want a phone, i want a phone not a mp3 player and a professional quality mp camera. but pda/smartphones are ok in my book as carrying a pda and a phone sucks but one device for both is amazing.
The iPhone seems to be all you hear about these days and while that's a nice step away from the whole Vista hype, i personally don't think it's anything special. Because although i'm not so much an Apple lover (Walkman > iPod and VAIO > MacBook) i've always really liked the look of Apple hardware, but this phone doesn't look special at all and it's certainly doesn't have that special Apple look in my opinion. Of course i haven't held one in my hands yet, so i don't know about it's usability, but as for looks i would have more liked to see a Nano looking version of my own phone (Samsung x820 http://www.phonemag.com/images/uploads/samsung/x820.jpg), which is still think is one of the best and coolest out there at the moment. I hope they will make something better in the future...
cyantific said: and only for cingular. Cingular is no longer by the time this is going to be released in June. Cingular will be AT&T.
Plus it is uncertain if it is only for Cingular, they may make it so that there is more providers, or not. No one will know until launch.
Ravers_Anthem, what quanoo meant by it turning off is that the screen will lock so only one button can unlock it, most likely only the end call button will be on the screen to be pressed, and even then it will under pressure sensitivity.
Bah, damn mouse. I will be getting this iPod (Yes it is an iPod mostly, with Phone features, thanks. :P) when it is released. Not sure if it will be the 4gb for $499 or the 8gb for $599. But regardless, it will be one of them.
"Plus it is uncertain if it is only for Cingular, they may make it so that there is more providers, or not. No one will know until launch."
They didn't seem too uncertain during the keynote.
I doubt Jobs would have the CEO of Cingular come up on stage for the keynote, say it's exclusive to Cingular (or AT&T), mention that they have a contract, etc. if there really wasn't an agreement to have it be exclusive to Cingular, sure, the name may change to AT&T but it's still tied to that provider. The name change is inconsequential. This is business and people do not make announcmnets like this unless they plan on sticking to them or getting the crap sued out of them.
Besides, there's only 2 real GSM providers in the US right now, one of them is going to get it. There will only be Cingular at launch. That's how it works. That's why they used the words "exclusive" and "agreement". In order for things besides SMS and basic voice calls to work, (i.e. specialized data services, interwebs) you have to be tied to one provider's network, any pay-as-you-go user with an unlocked phone knows this pain.
So sure, you could probably grab an unlocked iPhone and put any GSM SIM in there and start calling folks, but you're going to lose some functionality.
Make no mistake, this is Apple-Cingular (AT&T) thingy for the foreseeable future and I'm sure Jobs knew about the AT&T aqquisition (and was pleased about it) before the keynote. If they plan to bring the phone out in Japan at all they need to produce a CDMA, 3g model and when that happens you'll see the iPhone being offered by a plethora of providers, i'm guessing.
I wouldn't be suprised if you see Apple taking an interest in obtaining a portion of AT&T's wireless division, perhaps even in a way that borders on hostile.
The phone will launch exclusively on Cingular-AT&T.
i'm a sucker for nice interfaces and i'm really going to want to see how this baby handles. I hope they include a stylus cuz that web browsing sure is going to be hard with your fingers with all the small text etc.
@shocks in the keynote they specifically said they dislike stylus pens.. so you'll have to find one from another device.
i wonder how long it'll take until this phone gets brought to canada... and how long it'll take for them to make a cdma/evdo version... probably around the time no one will be interested in having one.
@ troseph don't you think 4 and 8gb models more or less resemble a nano? the product is already pretty thin. they should really have 30-120gb versions.
For that price I would expect it to be a 30GB minimum, I mean come on, even a 30GB ipod video is $250. They're really ripping you off with the price. I'll get one when my cingular contract is up, and i need to renew it, because usually they sell the phones much cheaper with a 2 year contract. I got my razr for $30 with a 2 year plan, so I would hope they do the same with this one after it has been out for a while. Sure it can do a lot, but not $499-$599 worth, not to me.
@shocks they also have it so you can zoom in on the iphone, so if you have fat fingers :p or dont think itll be that easy, you can just zoom in to that specific area and make it bigger.
Looks amazing, but I agree its pretty expensive. Would love to have a play with one.
Can't wait till apple comes out with bigger tablet style devices with more power and bigger screens. Multi-Touch would be amazing for digital art (or anything else really. Imagine playing games! Any game!)
If you watch the Video. The phone has a sensor that when you put it up to your face it locks it and therefore it turns the touchscreen off. Watch the video its neat.
Boing Boing recently captured my view on it perfectly.
"iPhone - the roach motel business model Randall Stross has a great op-ed in today's New York Times about how Apple's iPhone comes chock-full of DRM that will restrict your freedom and your consumer choice. He makes the great point that although Apple claims it adds its DRM (which locks you into buying Apple products) at the behest of the music industry, that many of the copyright holders whose work Apple sells in the music store have asked it to switch off the DRM. An Apple lawyer has gone on record saying that Apple would use DRM even if the music industry didn't want it.
It's ironic that a company whose name is synonymous with "Switch" - http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/ - has built its entire product strategy around lock-in. The iTunes/iPhone/iPod combo is a roach-motel: customers check in, but they can't check out.
And it doesn't stop with the iTunes DRM. Apple and Cingular have been trumpeting the technical prowess they've deployed in locking iPhone to the Cingular network, to be sure that no one can switch carriers with their iPhones. Even the Copyright Office has recognized that locking handsets to carriers is bad for competition and bad for the public.
There's another thing you can't switch with the iPhone: the software it runs. You can't install third-party apps on handset. Steve Jobs claims that this is because running your own code on a phone could crash the phone network, which must be news to all those Treo owners running around on Cingular's own network without causing a telecoms meltdown.
Lock-in isn't good for you. Does anyone really believe that Apple will make better products if its customers aren't free to switch to a competitor? Or that Cingular's network and pricing will be improved by lock-in? " - Boing Boing
