Jobs unveils the iphone

Evoir · 01-09-2007, 03:34 PM

I'm dancing and yelping! Very excited. Although, it is not 3G yet, so I'll wait for that. Very exciting!

http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/01...hone/index.php

I have not found a picture of it yet....

Evoir · 01-09-2007, 03:35 PM

The iPhone will come in two versions, a 4GB $499 model, and an 8GB $599 model with a two-year contract. Both will be available beginning in June. Cingular will be the exclusive U.S. carrier. Jobs said Apple anticipates bringing the iPhone to Europe in the fourth calendar quarter of 2007, and Asia in 2008.

*kitchin* · 01-09-2007, 03:50 PM

About the only grumbling I read is the exclusive deal with Cingular/AT&T and the two-year contract... and waiting until June.

What's the deal with Yahoo & Google? Apple is partnered with both of them?

*Buck* · 01-09-2007, 03:51 PM

Not just a phone, but a widescreen video iPod and an internet communicator, with **** good web browsing & e-mail capabilities.

All using a multi-touch touchscreen interface, too.

Evoir · 01-09-2007, 03:58 PM

Running OSX and a real web browser! And your itunes, contacts, and date book...

Evoir · 01-09-2007, 05:10 PM

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

*Andilinks* · 01-09-2007, 05:23 PM

This is my happiest Apple day since 1985 when that 9" B&W screen first chimed and flickered on. Apple is now a true triple threat, Leopard will eat Vista's lunch... IPod trumps Zune and RIM and Palm stock are dropping on this news.

During the options thing I was frightened and that is not really over, but Apple needs Jobs, no other company is so linked to the main innovator like Apple. We definitely don't want another "Scully period." I think Jobs can weather whatever the regulators do but it's the only cloud on the horizon. I got out of Apple at 88, there may be no pull-back I'll have to get back in at 92 tomorrow. Worth every penny, buy AAPL.

*tknterry* · 01-10-2007, 12:50 PM

OK its a technological marvel that does everything except translate NY cab drivers, but practically speaking, how much web browsing do people do on a 3.5-inch display like that?

*Andilinks* · 01-10-2007, 01:08 PM

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but practically speaking, how much web browsing do people do on a 3.5-inch display like that?

Not much these days, but the reason for the excitement is that being online everywhere, all the time is the future.

And this device will help to bring about that future. True, it is something that only interests the geeky early adopters. But that has been true about every advance in technology.

There are still billions of people without cell phones and most of those will be getting low-end Nokia or Chinese Bird phones. But the features that will be on their phones twenty years from now are being developed by Apple and will be available to you very soon.

*Andilinks* · 01-10-2007, 04:23 PM

For those interested in the other side of the coin (and there always is one) a new list of the worst things about the iPhone is here.