Filed under: Macworld, Accessories, Apple
iPhone Announced
Steve Jobs just dropped a bombshell on the audience attending his Macworld Keynote Address. Jobs at first announced the product as three separate products; a widescreen video iPod, a phone, and a mobile internet communicator. This was exciting enough, but I'm sure I'm not the only person who was a bit disappointed to think about carrying three devices. According to Laurie who is listening to the feed from the expo floor, the crowd went absolutely wild at this announcement.
The iPhone will use a revolutionary interface called MultiTouch, first seen in Apple patent filings over a year ago. The iPhone will run OS X, and be capable of running desktop-class applications.
The Nitty Gritty:
- Single front button.
- 3.5 inch widescreen display featuring the highest pixel density ever shipped in a portable device.
- 2 megapixel camera.
- iPod dock.
- Proximity sensor which switches between modes and screen orientation based on how a user holds it.
- 11.6 mm thick.
- Syncs with iTunes
- GSM/EDGE
- Wifi
- Bluetooth
- Cinglar only.
- Visual voicemail - shows a list of your voicemails like you see a list of emails.
- Error correcting on-screen keyboard.
- Gestural interface
- Mail.
- Safari.
- Google Maps.
- Widgets.
- Switches seamlessly between EDGE and WiFi.
- Free Yahoo! IMAP email to all iPhone customs.
- GPS
- 5 hour video battery life.
- 16 hour audio battery life.
[Photo via Engadget]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
tim said 2:07PM on 1-09-2007
let me be the first to say YESSSSS
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Daniel said 2:20PM on 1-09-2007
I'd love to have this thing, if it didn't cost $500 and Cingular didn't suck...
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Mike Johnson said 2:07PM on 1-09-2007
This is truly insanely great!!!!
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Jeff said 2:21PM on 1-09-2007
What a waste of a keynote. There's no way in hell I'm getting a cingular phone. And let's say I lost my sanity and I decided to go ahead an do it anyway... $599 WITH a soul-sucking contract! No freaking way.
Where was leopard? iLife?
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ongnoi said 2:20PM on 1-09-2007
Man!! Apple has it perfect until Cingular's in the picture. I guess I'll buy me a 3 gen. iPhone 3 years from now.
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kory said 2:08PM on 1-09-2007
so what if i currently have a contract with cingular that ends in september? will they let me buy the iphone? or will i just "reset" my subscription for two more years? eesh...so many questions! (;
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snesgirl said 3:58PM on 1-09-2007
so what about the non US market.
I'm in the UK. What european network will carry it, what will te Euro or sterling prices be?
argh!
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Austin said 11:04PM on 1-09-2007
Awww, T-Mobile SUCKS!! Now i need cingular.
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Spencer Callaghan said 2:09PM on 1-09-2007
Any indication of when this may be released in Canada and to what carrier?
They might as well take my money now because this looks freakin' amazing!
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Kevin Lamb said 2:46PM on 1-09-2007
!) Great device....truly groundbreaking....2)Why would they not sell unlocked versions...what about all those people who cant switch to Cingular?
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Groot said 2:54PM on 1-09-2007
Bye-bye buggy WinCE !
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Jason said 2:21PM on 1-09-2007
Not for me. I am so impressed with the phone, but hate, hate, hate Cingular and contracts and poor customer service. Now we know why they raised their text messaging prices - a lot of new contracts coming up. I wish he would have shown something of Leopard. :(
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franko said 2:10PM on 1-09-2007
*GEEKGASM*
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matthew said 2:25PM on 1-09-2007
yeah, it's great. but it doesn't ship until June. is this really all Apple has for its customers today? no isight? no ilife 2007? just an admittedly drool-inducing smartphone (that we can only use if we are on cingular)?
honestly, it's a bit of a letdown. june is so far away! and verizon charges an arm and a leg to break a contract early!
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CRH said 4:07PM on 1-09-2007
JUNE! I want one RFN!
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Johnny Thrash said 2:11PM on 1-09-2007
Can we pre-order???
Soon as I have a release date, I'm taking the day off for this phone!
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Flawed said 2:25PM on 1-09-2007
Better have a replaceable/removable battery... or else look out for the inevitable class action lawsuit!
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Jeff said 2:12PM on 1-09-2007
wait... so if you buy the phone, you have also pre-paid for 2 years of service... or that's the cost after the discount commonly given with a 2 year service agreement?
i'm assuming it's the latter, which... wow, that's a lot. Anybody need a kidney?
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Mac Poker said 2:13PM on 1-09-2007
Very sexy *hands money over to apple*
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Darren Cornwell said 2:12PM on 1-09-2007
So many questions - I want one and I want one now, not on Cinglar (not available in UK) just a plain old iPhone that I can whack my Orange Sim in and carry on as normal. Rock on Apple, two amazing releases in a few hours! I'm off the the Apple store to order my AppleTV!!!!!!!
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