Apple today announced the long awaited iPhone, a device that I predicted about years 1.5 ago that it would happen (I won't forget how a fellow editor from a Mac site emailed me to say that I am crazy after reading my blog back then). But the iPhone is real, and it's public information now. So based on the little we know about the device so far, let's see how it stacks up against its smartphone competition.
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Member since:2005-09-10
As a phone, it is nice. As a smartphone, it lacks a bit for now, such as 3G, and it remains to be seen how much of the features that will be made available on other OSes than OSX (will you need a Mac as well?). As a PDA, it definately seem to lack features such as Office tools integration and possibility to play back presentations on an external screen, which would also be nice for a functional multimedia device.
As Eugenia said, give us Java and an SDK, but also a mini-DVI port, GPS, room for an optional stylus pen and support for libre media formats.
The problem is though, that with all those additional things in there, the little machine would probably cost more than a Mac mini (and possibly even replace it).
Member since:2006-01-28
If it DOES end up having an SDK, I'd expect it just to be awesome even without using it as a phone. i.e. I think that it might make a nice little PDA IF it has decent battery life AND an open SDK.
As to being a phone: I HATE cell phones, and therefore would find it entirely useless as a phone. I'll read email and other text messages while moving, but phone calls?! No thanks.
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2006-01-03
It is a pretty awesome phone and I am not even into that kind of thing.