Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 9th Jan 2007 21:45 UTC
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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Ever since I had my first Palm, I've wanted a PDA with a touchscreen that was usable without a styus. I hate using a stylus. I guess I'll have to see how usable this really is. There are still a couple things that bother me about it.
First of all is price. The price would actucally be quite reasonable if it weren't carrier locked and required a 2 year contact. chrisschwa, you seem to be missing the point, the $499 and $599 are with a two year Cingular contract, so comparing it to the prices of unlocked peers isn't very uselful. Of course a large chunk of that price does come from the large amounts of flash memory, so it's understandable, and I'm guessing within a generation or two the price may come down, just like it did with every iPod model when first released.
The other is Cigular exclusiveness. While I don't have a current cell carrier and have no particular aversion to Cingular, I would like a few more options.
As far as the complaints about it not being OS X since it can't run full OS X apps. It's probably about as much OS X and Linux smart phones are Linux(especially the ones that use a GTK/QT UI), in that the base it the same, but there are still some important differences.