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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Mike Johnson said 2:07PM on 1-09-2007
This is truly insanely great!!!!
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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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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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franko said 2:10PM on 1-09-2007
*GEEKGASM*
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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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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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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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Peter said 2:13PM on 1-09-2007
This will make me switch to Cingular from Verizon
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Mac Poker said 2:13PM on 1-09-2007
Very sexy *hands money over to apple*
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Will said 2:15PM on 1-09-2007
It's really hard not to be excited about this thing. It's going to be hard to wait until June for it to hit the shelves. It's going to be tolerating my crappy phone until June to get one of these things. It's going to be miserable knowing I'll probably have to wait until July to actually get one.
But truth be told, they really slam dunked this thing as a consumer electronic gadget.
It's going to be interesting to see who/what/how developers will be able to develop on this thing, and, ideally, able to avoid Apple/Cingular in getting their apps deployed to the phone (mod digital bandwidth charges).
They had also better not require a customer be eligible for an "upgrade" at Cingular to get the phone at $499, that would REALLY suck.
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Austin said 2:16PM on 1-09-2007
eh what about the other iPhone?
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Jon said 2:16PM on 1-09-2007
US store's back up now.
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Abhissekk said 2:17PM on 1-09-2007
it is actually better than what i expected it to be. I though i would be dissappointed after all the iPhone hype, but apple manage to suprise me.
Yesss!!!
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Paul Smith said 2:17PM on 1-09-2007
I don't know if I'm the only one but I still want a widescreen HD ipod. The iphone looks good and all, but 8 gig isn't squat for holding movies and songs. I love the fact I can have The Office Seasons 1 and 2 and several movies, along with my entire collection of music on my ipod.
Let's hope they don't abandon a widescreen ipod.
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Adam said 2:18PM on 1-09-2007
I hate everything that comes from Apple.. including this phone... it's sooooo old news.
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Zach Everson said 2:19PM on 1-09-2007
iWant.
But I'm surprised Apple partnered with Cingular. Its claim of having the fewest dropped calls of any carrier is only true because a lot of them don't connect in the first place.
Hence, until T-Mobile offers the iPhone, iWait.
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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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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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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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