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Activation Video reveals some interesting details and... an 80GB iPhone?

by David Chartier Jun 26th 2007 at 10:11AM

Oh Apple, you're so sly with the way you slip in the useful (and sometimes bizarre) details with your iPhone demo videos. In the activation video posted today, more intricacies of what and how the iPhone synchs have been revealed with a walk-through of how to get one's iPhone set up at home with iTunes. First, it appears as though Apple and AT&T have thought of just about everything:



The setup asks whether you already have an AT&T account and you'd just like to add your iPhone to it, or if you're creating a brand new account. Users can also activate two or more phones all from the comforts of their pajamas and iTunes.



Transferring one's mobile number also looks like it's a snap. The process "may take up to 6 hours," and apparently your current service will be disconnected simply by following through with this iTunes activation (at least that's what the description text says). Transferring a home number, however, is apparently another process entirely, and a link is offered to take you elsewhere for more information.



For those who can't live by 200 monthly SMS messages alone, the plan selection screen offers two upgrade options that might appeal only to the heaviest of texters. The next step up from 200 is a whopping 1500 total messages for $10, with unlimited costing $20.


We've known for a while that Yahoo! Address Book would be an option for synching, and it appears that Apple has made it about as easy as possible to do this. It looks like all you'll have to do is click this button and enter your Yahoo! credentials to get up and running.



This 'Put new events in...' option is, in a way, a little disappointing to me, because I was hoping calendars would sync perfectly between iPhone and iCal. Looks like this won't be the case, though I can, in theory, kind of understand. I've tried categorizing events into separate calendars when entering them on other mobile phones, and it was admittedly a bit of a pain.



Now this last one is the bizarre detail that has both us and commenters puzzled: notice anything weird? How about that 74.40 GB capacity? The end of the video zooms in and out of the iTunes window, clearly showing the iPhone in the left sources list and a 7.2 GB capacity in the Summary tab, but this capacity rating at the bottom of the window has us scratching our heads. Are they performing some trickery here, using an 80GB 5G iPod to demonstrate some of this synching stuff? Or did they use a pre-production 80GB iPhone to hint that in just a few months, all the early adopters are going to experience iPhone envy all over again? Your guess is as good as ours here.

That's about everything we noticed from the video - but did we miss something? You know what to do.


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I would say the likelihood of using the phone as mass storage is pretty high. You still have "Other" on the capacity gauge, so it would make sense that you'd be able to use it as a drive.

June 26 2007 at 11:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
matt

What's the likelyhood that you can use the iPhone as a mass storage device? Since I'd be moving up from a 512 1st gen shuffle, portable storage would be nice.

June 26 2007 at 8:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dude

And they spell "Desperate Housewives" as "Desparate Housewives"

June 26 2007 at 5:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tomasz Jaszkin

The large download version of the video, at 6:18, shows the capacity correctly but with the figures having the decimal place set correctly. So; 74.40Gb is actually 7.24Gb, 25.64Gb is actually 2.56Gb in the video and so on. An editing mistake after all?

June 26 2007 at 5:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jared.plew

The video must have been changed. It now says that the capacity is 7.24

June 26 2007 at 4:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Daniel Flax

In the same screen (time 06:22) as the 80GB status bar on the bottom, the capacity reported in the summary up top is 8GB. More evidence that the screens are simulated.

June 26 2007 at 3:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David Chartier

#15: It isn't a joke anymore. It's harassment. Please, I'm asking you nicely to drop the issue.

June 26 2007 at 2:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
IntlOrange

Also note that your new number is assigned to you at the very end of the activation process, and you are not given multiple numbers to choose from. (When activating a phone in-store, you can usually haggle with the staff a bit to get a "cooler" number.)

June 26 2007 at 2:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
brady

It has been changed. 80GB was removed and now the video shows a 8GB iPhone.

-Brady (http://www.lameface.org)

June 26 2007 at 1:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brian Reading

Hmm, I thought AT&T was using the "AT&T Mobility" moniker or just "AT&T" to distinguish themselves from the original AT&T Wireless company.

June 26 2007 at 1:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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