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New Apple iPhone Exclusive to Cingular
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| Alain |
Woo! for Cingular
It will be a while before I get one though if I ever do, because I love my Pearl right now. I love the ideas this has to offer, although they raise a lot of questions. I'm just right down the street from Macworld though, I wonder if there's some setup in the exhibit.
Anyhow looking forward to seeing this product launch and how it's going to affect the mobile industry.
About 45 minutes into his keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said, "I have been looking forward to this for two and a half years," followed that with "Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone," and then proceeded to introduce the iPhone, which he called a leapfrog product that is much smarter than the previous generation of mobile phones, combining the iPod, mobile phone, 2-megapixel camera and an Internet communicator in one device.
Based on Jobs' demo of the iPhone, Apple has once again set the bar for others to follow, and they are far behind. Jobs said Apple is five years ahead of competitors with its software, and he is not that far off. Microsoft certainly has a lot to learn from Apple once again in creating usable operating systems and user interfaces. If the iPhone works as good as Jobs' demo, it will be a hit product.
With a 3.5-inch, 160-pixel per inch patented touch screen, the iPhone solves the user interface problem according to Jobs, making the rigid keys of mobile phones antiquated. Instead of being forced into using the hard keyboard for every application, the touch screen enable the interface to fit the application. Jobs dissed styluses as not being that useful and too easy to lose, but the first ad-on will be a stylus, especially for using the soft keypad.
The touching and scrolling user interface for accessing music and other applications is super slick, with all the nice effects from OS X graphics. "The software at least five years ahead of others," Jobs said. iTunes is used synch all media and data, such as contacts and calendar, to iPhone.
The killer app for the phone is making calls, Jobs said. The phone includes, contacts, calendar, visual voice mail, SMS messaging and quad band GSM + Edge, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The software enable multiple SMS messaging sessions at once.
The camera application also takes advantage of OS X capabilities. Using your fingers, you can resize photos on the iPhone and easily switch between portrait and landscape modes.
As an Internet communicator, the iPhone supports rich text email (IMAP or POP3), a fully usable HTML Web browser (Safari), Google Maps, widgets and Wi-Fi and EDGE networking. The landscape mode makes reading Web pages much easier and you can "pinch" the screen to resize the page. The iPhone also supports mutliple browser windows, like tabbed browsing, at once.
Jobs said the phone delivers five hours of battery life and 16 hours of audio playback. The 4GB version is priced at $499 with a two-year contract; the 8GB version, $599. Apple has filed over 200 patents related to the device, which will be available in June. Cingular is the exclusive distributor in the U.S. |
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| RobertStern |
Finally, I have been waiting for someone to get the cell phone right! This was exactly what I have been wishing it would be! Amazing, I am so happy about this!!
On a cell phone note. I am at the CES in Las Vegas. There is LG, Sansung and Apple now for cell phones. All the other stuff is junk compared to what these companies are offering. Samsung had some awesome Cells at the show!
I will be sporting that iPhone, cancelling my T-mobile and going to cingular... WOO HOOO!!!!! |
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| sunchild |
| thank God for apple. |
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| dj_bas |
| How is it exclusive to Cingular? Can't phones just be unlocked now anyway? |
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| Junior Chavez |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj_bas
How is it exclusive to Cingular? Can't phones just be unlocked now anyway? |
When they say "exclusive" i think they mean only Cingular will have it in stock. And I believe you are correct Bas, most phones have SIM cards... and you can place your card into any phone that accepts a SIM card.
ie. I bought a flip phone on ebay for 80 bucks to avoid another contract... I inserted my SIM card and I use my phone just fine. =]
ps. That looks like a badass phone :wtf: |
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| dj_bas |
| quote: | Originally posted by Junior Chavez
When they say "exclusive" i think they mean only Cingular will have it in stock. And I believe you are correct Bas, most phones have SIM cards... and you can place your card into any phone that accepts a SIM card.
ie. I bought a flip phone on ebay for 80 bucks to avoid another contract... I inserted my SIM card and I use my phone just fine. =]
ps. That looks like a badass phone :wtf: |
Heh, that's what I thought. Staying with T-Mobile and getting this phone discounted from work...ahh yeah! |
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| Clovis |
| I just want a phone :wtf: |
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| jethro |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj_bas
How is it exclusive to Cingular? Can't phones just be unlocked now anyway? |
From what I understand of talking with a friend at apple who has been working on the phone, they have coded in alot of features that interact with cingular back end servers directly, so unlocking the phone may result in a loss of applications functioning properly. Regardless, we had the pleasure of playing with one of these for a few hours last week at a meeting with apple, and I must say the way the touch screen ui works is pretty easy to pick up and fun to use. Looks like it will be a pretty cool gadget. |
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| |Thrax| |
| quote: | Originally posted by Clovis
I just want a phone :wtf: |
You have a phone. There are plenty of great phones out there that are just phones.
Let the dog have it's day. |
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| lex400sc |
| looks sick! i'll buy the 2nd gen version when it's around ~$200... and supports 3g and gps :whip: |
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| MR STROKE |
| quote: | Originally posted by RobertStern
I am at the CES in Las Vegas. |
how did you get tickets?? I have wanted to go for years but have never worked in the right industry or knew how:conf:
Are you going to the AVN's too:disbelief |
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