The iPhone is out and about, and everyone waiting in line for hours/days got one (including Woz, and the mayor of Philadelphia who apparently had nothing better to do). Unboxing pictures here, dissecting pictures here, PDF manual, and one of the best-designed iPhone web apps can be found here: the iPhoneAppsManager (requires a Safari/Webkit browser to work). Update: Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Update 2: It is claimed Apple UK will announce a 3G iPhone on Monday, as well as deals with Vodafone and T-Mobile. Update 3: Lots of screenshots reveal no "weekend/weekday" recurrence in the alarm app.
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Very. Impossible without an SDK. There are no companies I know that would pay the MMS price for you, just because the app can't "talk" to the phone to send an MMS.
Actually, this is not correct. The iPhone permits you to create a Javascript application with asynchronous http (AJAX in, other words). You could thus easilly build an MMS application using any gateway that support an HTTP interface (there are quite a few of those).
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"Well we will see about it when iphone comes to europe , i heard mms isnt widely used in USA"
Here in Germany, the mobile phone market is primarily targetted at youths from 10 years up. To them, the iPhone might look appealing, allthough it's too big (for their little fingers) and too expensive (for their parents). MMS is widely used to interchange video clips (especially on schoolyards where the clips show sex and violence). You think I've not got a very positive opinion about youths and mobile phones in Germany? You're right.
To commercial users, the iPhone might be interesting because it covers many important functionalities into a handy interface (form factor and GUI), so there might be a market.
I'm very excited how the iPhone starts selling in Germany. Will people sleep infront of the stores in order to get one? Or will it just reside in a niche of the shop (such as Apple computers sadly do) or will everyone want to have one?
By the way, mobile phones are called "Handy" in Germany. Have you got a Handy? No, my Handy is ringing! :-)
Edited 2007-06-30 15:13
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Apple stuff are quite fun to play with Appletv with macosx on it which produces a cheap mac
Well since iphone is true macosx maybe a bit stripped out of computer hardware features it makes things easier to install stuff i imagine.
Rumors that dont scare me off:
1. MMS feature , there is officially no Mms on the iphone but how hard would it be to make a 3rd part mms sender?
2.lack of 3g, so what? never used that network would probably be overestimated with its built in wifi:D
3. 3g circuits consume alot of power but you never know if someone will make a software solution to that.
For me playing midi files properly is the best in the phone its a proof of good soundchip , and i like that the phone has mp3 player seperately from ringtone midis
so music fades out and ringtone plays , after the call music smoothly fades in from where it got interrupted.