iPhone details trickle in

If the iPhone looked anything like the mockup used in this articles picture, I'd buy two.

I want this phone,,, its soo cool.. and hopefully it will be able to isync (: just kiding.. it looks cool.. I am a buyer.

Least Ye not Forget....Apple aquired a brand spanking new MCI Data Center a while back...perfect perhaps for oh managing a Mobile Network!? I think with Apple controling the Design, Hardware and Software as is there custom an iPhone would be a thing to behold, and the complete opposite of dumbed down Carrier provided handset. Full Bluetooth intergration with iCal, Address Book etc perhaps a mobile vs of Safari...?
I would happily pay a premium for an Apple iPhone as you just know that if the thing ever gets out the door it will blow evreyone else out of the water.

I'm glad to see growing support for inclusion of a stud finder. This would come in handy all the time. Is there a petition we can sign?

While it is very likely that if Apple brings out a phone right now, it will be 2G - CDMA or GSM, perhaps some people might expect Apple to come out with something more cutting edge - using 3G or one of the higher speed wireless standards. We are at the cusp of a big shift in wireless technology and anyone entering this market right now will have to quite agile. I think given the current state of the infrastructure, introducing a phone GSM/CDMA is smart, but they will quickly have to move to the newer technologies.

This might be wishful thinking, but i see them introducing an unlocked SIM-free GSM phone and selling it for a price that is slightly more than an equivalent iPod.

I hope for the world's sake that the phone part of it is generic GSM (tri-band or quad-band) and not CDMA.

However, given how US-centric Apple is (just compare how much Apple promotes their products in the States with TV and print ads vs. how little they promote them in the rest of the world), it would not surprise me if they initially only launched in the US (with perhaps a US-standard only handset), and then after a few months made it available in a GSM model for the rest of the world.

Apple likes to go it alone. I do not see them tying themselves in with a carrier, but you never know. In the US it is much easier to promote your handset if you are doing it through a carrier.

It never ceases to amaze me how the US phone market is so antiquated in the way you can only get certain phones from certain carriers, and you can only use that handset with that carrier. In Europe and Asia, you can use pretty much any phone with any carrier. Here in the UK, you usually get credit towards a new phone when you sign a 1-year contract, but very rarely are those phones locked to the carrier. You can walk in to any high street mobile phone shop, and they would have a whole range of phones available and you decide which phone you want and which carrier to go with based on the calling plan and amount the carrier gives towards the phone. In other words, you can get [almost] any handset you want, not pay the full retail price (for most handsets you end up paying nothing) and use whichever carrier you wish.

Looking at the list of manufacturers and suppliers, in particular the maker of the latest iPod nanos and minis, I would say the phone will have an aluminum casing similar to those iPods, and I would bet they come in different colors.

Now the only decsion for me would be whether to get it in red or blue :)

check this:


http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Communication/Mobile_Phones?Article=/Communication/Mobile%20Phones/C4P4W7L9

Shouldn't mosey levey get a star or two for writing in blank verse?

We don't see enough Shakespeare in this blog if you ask me.

@ #12: They pulled it off the the operating system, they might just well be able to pull it off with the phone, too

Man I'll be outraged if it doesn't come up to my crazy speculations! I demand a 15mp camera, not because I need one, just because it's what I expect! and an 100gig hard drive, no, it's Apple hmm it should have a 100gig new fangled holographic type drive and use that foldable screen stuff.

I don't think a stud finder is really too much to ask for either naugahyde.