The Apple iPhone
January 9th, 2007 by Ed Lau |After months of speculation and rumor, Apple finally officially announced the iPhone today and I must say, it looks pretty good. Like the iPod and Macbooks, it’s strength is really in the svelte and fashionable design. Sure there are plenty of Pocket PC mobile phones available but none look as good as the iPhone. As for function, it seems to have everything that you would probably need in a phone. After seeing the actual product, it’s smaller than I imagined it would be since most similar Pocket PC phones are much larger.
Pretty cool, huh? It’s a widescreen iPod with a touchscreen, a quad-band EDGE phone and what looks like a decent handheld PDA-like device. If you look at the demos on the site, everything looks very smooth and intuitive like the iPod. Go ahead, hand an iPod to someone that has never used one…they’ll pick it up in minutes. It looks pretty much the same with the iphone…especially with the great looking touchscreen.
Prices are speculated to be $499 for a 4GB model and $599 for an 8GB model, which is entirely reasonable for something like this. Not bad at all. I’ll follow up on this when I buy one…and I probably will.
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My 1.5 year old Pocket PC phone is smaller and lighter than this. The screen size is smaller, but the resolution is the same.
Also, to make it CDMA-only is just retarded. Unless you never plan to travel, ever. And if you go to one of the few countries that use that network (Korea, Japan) it won’t work because of different network bandwidth.
And it’s exclusive to Cingular. That means that if you’re not in the US, you can’t get it. And if you are in the US but a place without service from Cingular, you can’t get it.
And those prices include a 2 year contract. So really the phone is more like $800-1000
If they made a more open, GSM/3G version, I would consider it for sure. But this thing is nothing more than… well, nothing… It’s just a waste of time.
Wait, I read on some press release that it was CDMA.. It’s actually GSM/EDGE. So that is smart!
Still, unless it can be unlocked, still a waste. Also you have the price issue. Without a 2 year contract it will surely be over $1000
So not a complete waste of time, but they just didn’t get it quite right.
Carl, yes, it’s quad-band GSM/EDGE with WiFi. No 3G though, and somehow I doubt if it’ll be unlockable (at least for the first little while). They are launching it in Europe and Asia too though (so you may be able to unlock those).
Wow I just realized a few more things about this phone.
It doesn’t have a removable battery.
It will NOT support 3rd party applications.
There are NO expansion slots. No additional memory or removable memory.
It can’t sync over wifi, even though it has wifi. No 3rd party apps means it never will.
It doesn’t support exchange/outlook
And this is supposed to be a smartphone? Looks more like a dumbfuck phone to me!
Jessica Alba may not be the smartest girl in school but I’d still hit it.