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]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
1-09-2007 @ 2:07PM
tim said...
let me be the first to say YESSSSS
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1-09-2007 @ 2:07PM
Mike Johnson said...
This is truly insanely great!!!!
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1-09-2007 @ 2:08PM
kory said...
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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1-09-2007 @ 2:09PM
Spencer Callaghan said...
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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1-09-2007 @ 2:10PM
franko said...
*GEEKGASM*
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1-09-2007 @ 2:11PM
Johnny Thrash said...
Can we pre-order???
Soon as I have a release date, I'm taking the day off for this phone!
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1-09-2007 @ 2:12PM
Jeff said...
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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1-09-2007 @ 2:12PM
Darren Cornwell said...
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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1-09-2007 @ 2:13PM
Peter said...
This will make me switch to Cingular from Verizon
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1-09-2007 @ 2:13PM
Mac Poker said...
Very sexy *hands money over to apple*
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1-09-2007 @ 2:15PM
Will said...
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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1-09-2007 @ 2:16PM
Austin said...
eh what about the other iPhone?
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1-09-2007 @ 2:16PM
Jon said...
US store's back up now.
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1-09-2007 @ 2:17PM
Abhissekk said...
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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1-09-2007 @ 2:17PM
Paul Smith said...
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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1-09-2007 @ 2:18PM
Adam said...
I hate everything that comes from Apple.. including this phone... it's sooooo old news.
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1-09-2007 @ 2:19PM
Zach Everson said...
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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1-09-2007 @ 2:20PM
Daniel said...
I'd love to have this thing, if it didn't cost $500 and Cingular didn't suck...
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1-09-2007 @ 2:20PM
ongnoi said...
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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1-09-2007 @ 2:21PM
Jeff said...
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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