Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 30th Jun 2007 00:20 UTC
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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It is more than a phone. That's where the market goes. Saying that something is "just a phone" is not true anymore. Not in this day and age.
But the point he was trying to make (I assume) is all this hype really warrented for a device which is merely a glorified phone? I mean, it does 100s of things in a half assed manner.
I remember purchasing an expensive phone through Vodafone - it was a complete joke, 100s of features each crappier than the last. The sound quality of the mp3 player was abismal, the '3G' speed, I can assure you, I wasn't feeling the 'G' when surfing, or more like, crawling the web.
Don't get me started on the quality of the signal. I'm sitting smack bang in the middle of Christchurch CBD and the signal is crappy at best.
I've since sold that, got my self an el-cheapo $179 CDMA flip-phone Sanyo through TelecomNZ, and have not had a single problem yet. Crystal clear signal, fast internet speeds - all this from an elcheapo phone.
The storage - maxes out at 8GB IIRC, sorry to rain on anyones parade, but if I were to replace an ipod with that, I would expect minimum that it allows me to explain beyond 8GB using standard SD cards or otherwise I might as well just stick to owning an iPod and phone seperately.
Sure, there will be giddy school girls out there skipping off all excited about this new gizmo, but for most of us bitter old farts like me, we've seen this crap come and go; the youngsters slirp down the kool aide only to find indigestian is soon to follow once they find out the limitations of it.
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It's a PDA (in fact it's a little Mac*) not just a phone
* running Mac OS X using a different user interface because of the small form factor
* running Mac OS X using a different user interface because of the small form factor
What I'm wondering is if it still uses the Darwin kernel. It just doesn't seem like something that would scale down to such small devices. What's also interesting is that the next generation iPod is also supposed to run a scaled down version of OS X too.
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2006-08-09
It is a phone.