Apple iPhone announced at Macworld Comments
- Anonymous
- MFT
It seems that Apple was not able to be innovative this time. It is obvious that Apple sees that mp3 player mobile phones are going to kill iPod. Therefore they needed to go into the mobile phone business to stay in the music player business.
I would compare this phone to N91, because it has similar 4/8 GB internal memory.
Screen: N91 smaller
Battery: Similar
3G: Apple no, N91 yes
Touchsreen: Apple yes, N91 no
Buttons: Apple no, N91 yes
Functions: Similar
So where is the innovation? Ok, the touchscreen functions might be innovative, if they work well. However, I am sceptical about the screen and how can you operate it by only using one hand (e.g. writing SMS while driving car).
My point is, N91 is 2 years old!!! Apple's flagship mobile is compare able to 2 years old technology. And 2 years is a lifetime in mobile phones.
I just hope that the touchscreen innovations work. I would be nice to have a phone with bigger screens. Other makers could copy it and make a phone with more up to date features (better camera, GPS, 3G, mobile TV etc.).
- disco dancer
- S35
About time somebody released a proper phone! This day and age demands more than just making calls, and this little gizmo will deliver big time!
- Nexus
- F9r
the 2mp camera, recon i will have photobooth (Mac OSX Tiger App) Qualitys to it?
- CeLL
- ntP
and what brings new on the market this phone???..nothing..it is a fk pda..not a cel phone
- Andrew Garnett-Clark
- mga
THIS IS NOT A SMARTPHONE!
You can't put any applications onto it. The price is too high and may only do well in America, where they are used to big phones with outdated specifications.
No 3G? No HSDPA? Only 8GB? The size?
I think they should have made a rival to SE walkman phones, a small nano like device with a phone built in. This is for an exclusive market only, especially at thaat price!
- Anonymous
- M%j
Guys, Nokia N95's time is already past. The N95 is a dead phone now, thank to Apple. Great job !!!!
- Anonymous
- ntN
it exists...i have seen news on tv.....launched today in san francisco at the tech expo....it will be available soon on us market the in hole world!!!
- Rex King
- Fvk
u want 3g/hsdpa, >8gb storage, memory card slot, xenon flash, >3 mp camera, play music, videos, internet browsing, you can... for >US1000, you may have the phone... but you must remember, that this is apple 1st foray into the phone market, which has Nokia, SE, Motorola, Samsung in it (>90% market share)... and apple has 0% market share... therefore affordability has to be the main priority... and the target market should be older ipod owner (1st - 3rd gen) and dissatisfied owner of SE walkman phone, nokia music phone, which most likely using 2g phone... may be after apple gain 10%, 20% market, they can introduce 3g/hsdpa phone and all the bell and whistle that u all wanted... but for US499, u get EDGE, wifi (b/g), bluetooh 2.0 EDR, 3.5" TFT screen, 4GB storage, full html browser, OS X etc... it's a steal.. i surely want one, even just for the UI... alas i live in asia, so i have a year or two of waiting, maybe by then apple will introduce the 3g/hsdpa version...
- sonny_boy
- QfW
this is not aphone. this is a monster! it will swallow whole the exsisting phones on the market. nokia, SE, beware..
- bogey
- NRi
i don't think all people are into 3g. personally, i don't want to stare into the screen when having a phone conversation. skype and messengers have enough of that. and on the way, you odn't really need that...
- DiO
- pds
Err i think it's pretty obvious, read the news lol... Wow this one is my dream, i want it so much...
- Anonymous
- msI
I wonder if it really exists :)
- jologs
- wYB
w/ apple's osx, you wont be needing other sw/appz
- Pascotam
- TRB
No 3G/HSDAP. A 2.5G phone in 2007/2008! As a Mac user I feel disappointed.
- Anonymous
- iIT
This is history making. We can talk and discuss about the good and the not so good tech details of the IPhone...but no matter what: this is history making, today. The mobile industry will never be the same from now on and i bet Nokia, Sony Ericsson... and al...are having urgency-meetings today to discuss the before-and-after IPhone introduction into the market. And this is damn good! We will all benefit from this good "war". I was waiting for a true portable pocket-computer-phone-multi-media-device and now we are almost there (i strongly recommend the link someone post above to the Steve Jobs announcement of the IPhone...you should see this thing working to have a clue of what we are talking about here...). Coming up in June...and this is just the beginning.
- Steve Jobs
- QsN
you're all so close minded. you have no idea the power of this handset.
http://www.apple.com/iphone
--- Built-in Advanced Sensors ---
iPhone’s accelerometer detects when you rotate the device from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page or a photo in its proper landscape aspect ratio.
The proximity sensor detects when you lift iPhone to your ear and immediately turns off the display to save power and prevent inadvertent touches until iPhone is moved away.
An ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the display’s brightness to the appropriate level for the current ambient light, thereby enhancing the user experience and saving power at the same time.
...please name me another device that is capable of this. anyone? anyone? bueller? bueller? ferris bueller?
- Anonymous
- Pv9
its not a smartphone, its closed platform so you are screwed to what apple have to offer.
- uday
- P$p
Gr8 phone...Finally we get a smart phone that is easy to use...and above all with the true IPod....
- Giekoy
- U2P
cant wait this fone!!! hope it will run nice and smooth..
- Nox
- ixm
Interestingly enough, Apple has had problems with call it's new baby 'Iphone' as it has already been registered as a trademark by another company. I wonder if they will try to cheeky and just drop the 'I' all together or think of something equally flowery to call it.
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