Apple posts iPhone welcome video

@13,16,20: Absolutely B.S. that this phone that is an iPod won't use your music as ringtones! This is a deal breaker for me! Anyone who spends 99cents on a full song and $1.99 for a 20 sec. lofi ringer is a sucker.

I guess the Calendar feature details will be announced within the week as Apple will surely announce this and that feature to keep the buzz alive.

Jeez. I printed out the picture of the iPhone, and it is really small. its only slightly bigger than my RAZR when its closed. Thats crazy. I really want an iPhone, although I still have about 9 months left on my contract with Verizon, and also, I have large fingers, so hopefully that won't be a problem. Hopefully when the crowds die down at the Apple Store or the AT&T stores, I can demo one.

i hope they come out with a gps-bluetooth device that you can keep in the car or something.

Ringtones and batteries aside, what about voice dial? Still no word on that, if I'm not mistaken. What the heck good is a bluetooth headset without voice dial.

Ugh.

I was looking back on the first post when the iPhone was first announced and there were pictures from Steve Job's keynote on it, and one of them showed his iPhone connected to iTunes and there were multiple tabs like "Personal, Music, Video, Podcasts, etc." like when you plug your iPod in now. Well, there is also the "Ringtones" tab, so maybe we will be able to set our own mp3's as ringtones still. Don't give up hope yet.

Oops, looks like I was a little too late on that one.

Notice near the beginning that the toolbar at the bottom of the screen slides up from offscreen. I wonder if this means we can hide somehow. Here's a sequence of screen captures:

http://iphonewebdev.googlegroups.com/web/safari-toolbar-hideable.jpg

Or just watch the beginning of the video closely.

Is anybody else concerned about the state of the Calendar application? There is not one demo on it, anywhere; not in the keynote, not in this video, nowhere. I'm concerned that it's not complete, or that it won't have the features that one would expect in an iPhone application.

This video is really informative and interesting, and shows the depth of the new interface -- there is a lot more in that little box than meets the eye.
But there are several things that are getting more and more conspicuous by their absence every day. While more information and detail keeps appearing about the iPod, mail, Google maps, and YouTube, there hasn't been a mention of the functions of:
- Calendar
- Camera
- Notes
- Clock
- Calculator
Yes, the last two are probably pretty uninteresting, but isn't it odd that Calendar has never been demoed? More evidence that they are deliberately not aiming this at the business market, I suppose.
Love that they are embracing the gestures of the Newton, such as the "cross out" swipe to delete items. Very intuitive, and shows that there are "shortcuts" in the interface for advanced users.