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Apple iPhone by Motorola?

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since I'm a visiting nurse the phone/ipod/iphoto in one unit makes sense,
as of now have no reason to shell out $250+ dollars for an ipod,
but with the need of phone in my line of work this will be a worthwhile purchase, :cool:
 
if there is iPhone ever from apple, i think i want this! :D

and i got this picture from http://www.applele.com
 

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Toe said:
Coming in late to this thread so...

For those who don't think a potentially expensive iPhone can compete with the free phones you can get with service contracts... I never in a billion years could have imagined that ANYONE would pay $400 or more for a glorified Walkman. Not a chance, so I thought. Just because you wouldn't pay for it doesn't mean that there isn't a whole different market segment. If that weren't the case, there wouldn't be Treo's and Razrs and P900s and all those other $500+ phones. Somebody must be buying them....

For those who say Motorola phones suck horribly, my understanding is that that is 100% true... except for their new Razr, which is supposed to be awesome. I guess they're turning a corner....

For those who think phones aren't a good market to get into, I couldn't disagree more. I LOVE my 12" PowerBook in most ways, but I HATE how enormous it is. The computer as it is currently conceived is absolutely obsolete. What people want (at least my demographic wants it!) is a fully functioning super-computer the size of a small flip-phone or wristwatch. (With a 30" monitor, of course.) Cellphones are the computers of the future. They're just wating for better input methods (than micro-keyboards or pressing numbers repeatedly) and direct-to-eye-output... ie, a display onto glasses or projecting directly into the eye.
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the razr sucks ace. i read about 5 reviews. it is over glorified. only a 5mb drive. bad screen resolution. terrible menus. take the case off and then what would you think???? hmmmm.
 
we still don't know what the flash memory purchase by Apple is for.

Maybe it's not a flash-ipod standalone, but an iTunes enabled phone: a combo flashipod-phone.
 
Santaduck said:
we still don't know what the flash memory purchase by Apple is for.

Maybe it's not a flash-ipod standalone, but an iTunes enabled phone: a combo flashipod-phone.
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:p Please see second article on this page about Moto
 
22350 said:
Don't ask where i got this.


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i also want to point out that apple just pulled a patent on a connection for a swivel screen that say "especially good for handheld devices" in the description.
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I don't think that after Apple learned the lesson of not putting any buttons outside the scrollwheel in the 4G iPod that it would revert to adding buttons outside again. Now the sliding screen off the iPod to reveal the keyboard, that has an interesting idea to it.
 
I thought Apple and sony ericsson are working together and doing the iPhone thingy
 
I've come up with a simple way to have a sort of full-sized keyboard on a mobile phone, without any fold-out crap or projection onto a flat surface or any of those workarounds.

Any idea how I can get Apple to buy it from me? :)
 
Toe said:
I've come up with a simple way to have a sort of full-sized keyboard on a mobile phone, without any fold-out crap or projection onto a flat surface or any of those workarounds.

Any idea how I can get Apple to buy it from me? :)
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i work for a multinational company and i can guarantee you that they must have a policy concerning non-acceptance of unsolicited ideas. probably the only way you could send it in would be by mail, and they would send it back to you unopened :(

edit: but i'm sure if you patent it you'll get somewhere with it... eventually...
 
autopilot said:
i work for a multinational company and i can guarantee you that they must have a policy concerning non-acceptance of unsolicited ideas. probably the only way you could send it in would be by mail, and they would send it back to you unopened :(

edit: but i'm sure if you patent it you'll get somewhere with it... eventually...
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That's true. My suggestions I've sent snail mail have been sent with a message of not accepting unsolicited ideas.

However, if you word your suggestion on Apple's feedback page saying that you allow them to consider the idea their own and do not want any compensation for the idea, I'm sure it would get more attention than if you let any concept of it open to the assumption that you may want royalties for your idea.
 
gopher said:
However, if you word your suggestion on Apple's feedback page saying that you allow them to consider the idea their own and do not want any compensation for the idea, I'm sure it would get more attention than if you let any concept of it open to the assumption that you may want royalties for your idea.
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It'd be nice to get some sort of royalties from something that would be on millions of devices... ;)

I guess I'll just have to hire an electrcal engineer, build a prototype, patent it, and then see if I can do anything with it.

Sounds easy. :rolleyes:
 
I find this highly unbelievable considering Moto phones (Even the Razr) don't sync over BT in iSync, and when they do manage to sync (over the oh-so-modern USB cable), they sync the least amount of data of all the other phone manufacturers.

I call BS on this one.
 
I'd be happy if I could just get a god damn phone. Now a days its nil impossible to find just a dang phone from the various phone companies out there, go figure. Its gotta have BlueTooth, 2 or more color screens, (Which I wouldn't be opposed to if phones didn't get crappy batt life as is.) cameras, video/audio support, some now have WIFI built in. What next a model that you place in front of a loaf of bread and it shoots out a laser and slices it for you?


Give me a phone dang it!! You want to add bells and whistles fine. More power too you but stop zapping the battery life on all these devices. Battery life IMHO and for some of us is a priority. Here's a novel idea? A phone with 9 days of standby and 8 hours of talk time? Wow what an idea! A phone that doesn't need to be charged every or every other day. BRILLIANT!
Sorry. Had a Verizon sales jerk hassle me the other day at the mall on the pros of a camera phone and when I asked him about battery life he had to look it up. 180 minutes talk time, a tad over 2 days for standby and he thought that was great bettery life. *dies gagging on the bile*
 
retromac said:
:confused: This is what i found today.

http://www.iphone.org/

This is interesting. Maybe they are planning somthing, why would they have the URL and not use it?

Let's hope! I wouldn't mind an Apple iPhone!
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A bit pointless for Apple (a company) to register a .org (organisation).

Also, iphone.com is already taken up by some VoIP company... And the name "iPhone" seems to be their property (only saw a glance of the website before closing the window).
 
From MacMinute

Apple and Motorola could soon introduce the mobile phone the two companies are developing to play music purchased from Apple's iTunes Music Store. "We've said we have something coming on this in the first half of 2005 and we're definitely on schedule for that. Hopefully you'll be able to see more about it soon," Eddy Cue, vice president of applications at Apple, told Forbes. "What we've talked about is a something that is valuable for the mass market. It has to be a phone in the middle-tier of the market, not a $500-tier phone. It has to be very seamless to use. And we're very happy with the results." Cue declined to say whether Apple CEO Steve Jobs would show the phone at next month's Macworld Expo in San Francisco.
 
TednDi said:
"We've said we have something coming on this in the first half of 2005 and we're definitely on schedule for that. Hopefully you'll be able to see more about it soon," Eddy Cue, vice president of applications at Apple, told Forbes.
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hmm, sounds promising... i''l hold onto my nokia for a little longer... :)
 
SiliconAddict said:
I'd be happy if I could just get a god damn phone. Now a days its nil impossible to find just a dang phone from the various phone companies out there, go figure. Its gotta have BlueTooth, 2 or more color screens, (Which I wouldn't be opposed to if phones didn't get crappy batt life as is.) cameras, video/audio support, some now have WIFI built in. What next a model that you place in front of a loaf of bread and it shoots out a laser and slices it for you?


Give me a phone dang it!! You want to add bells and whistles fine. More power too you but stop zapping the battery life on all these devices. Battery life IMHO and for some of us is a priority. Here's a novel idea? A phone with 9 days of standby and 8 hours of talk time? Wow what an idea! A phone that doesn't need to be charged every or every other day. BRILLIANT!
Sorry. Had a Verizon sales jerk hassle me the other day at the mall on the pros of a camera phone and when I asked him about battery life he had to look it up. 180 minutes talk time, a tad over 2 days for standby and he thought that was great bettery life. *dies gagging on the bile*
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Right you are. I'm still waiting for the cell phone that is under $20 a month flat rate, no questions asked, no long distance fees, no roaming fees, no annual contract, has the ability to preserve my home phone number, and answering machine service with call screening, and with your kind of battery life. Maybe even solar battery powered.
 
Competition?

Peyote said:
Doubt it's true. It would be interesting if it was...especially if it was designed by Apple. There's just so much competition in this market, I don't see why Apple would make such a risky move.
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Most cell phones kind of suck, just like most MP3 players did before the iPod. Folks on this forum mostly responded with a yawn when the iPod came out, but Apple knew what they were doing. By now, I would trust the design team at Apple to make a cell phone that is a pleasure to use.
 
FelixDerKater said:
A small clickwheel to replace the normal multi-directional buttons would be nice. Couple that with a well-spaced keypad.
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Better yet...

I'd like to see an iPhone with nothing but a clickwheel and a screen in a small, slim and elegant form factor.

Numbers can be entered by scrolling through the click wheel (anybody still remember rotary phones?) and typing can be done this way also.

Nonetheless, you'd have your Address Book imported from your Mac or inputted already so you'd simply access the phone book through Menu>Address Book>Scroll to Name>Enter to Call.

On a final note, I strongly believe that there is no Flash iPod. The iPhone is likely what Apple has needed flash memory all along for.
 
wibbler said:
And one thing to you Americans still think the world (technological and political) revolves around you. It doesn't.

Europe and the Far East are WAY in front of you guys with cell phones. We have more handsets per capita, make more calls, have better coverage (I crossed the US on a Harley and found that most of the USA is cut off from even GSM networks) , we send more SMS's by a big margin, and are much more handset savvy than you guys simple because we've had them for longer. In the UK many 11 year old kids have mobile (cell) phones, and that isn't just rich kids, that's MOST kids.
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GSM is a very backwards technology anyways. Non-techie people feel comfy with "Global" in the name. GSM is just a revamp of TDMA/FDMA. Security is limited. CDMA is the way to go. Its a secure, smooth cell transition system. You say the Far East is advanced? You're right! They are deploying CDMA left and right. Verizon and Sprint have it right banking on CDMA technology. My area already has 3G CDMA where I have DSL/Cable speed or faster data access via my mobile.

You also mention that GSM coverage is very spotty here in the US. I'm glad and its for a good reason. Well that shows you how well Cingular/ATT will do. They will drop customers soon enough. I hope Apple is smart and goes both ways. If all they offer is a GSM phone... I won't bother.

Dont take my word for it... do some research on GSM (TDMA/FDMA) vs. CDMA yourself. The only good part of GSM is that it is still more widespread. But as far as a technology it stinks and will phase out. If you are in the US. A CDMA provider is the best way to go. The far east is already working on that. So WAY in front??? I dunno about that.
 
iPhone images. :p

here's my take on the iPhone. I sure do hope Apple makes something cool, utilizing the click wheel maybe?

iPhone
 
Looks like there will be no "iPhone" after all. The people announcing this cooperation with Motorola in designing a phone "with integrated i-Tunes" are the people responsable for Apple applications not hardware.

I think what we'll see is best case scenario: Motorola hardware design with all Apple OS

... worst case scenario: Motorola hardware and Menus with an iTunes application.
 
i would personally love an apple phone - it would complete my line of apple gadgets!

however, i've had my sonyericsson p900 for over a year, and don't think i'll ever be able to replace it (i've never kept a phone before for more than three months!).

it'll probably be still welded to my hand when i'm six feet under!
 
some articles have made a mention to a possible usb connection in one end of the device. maybe the device could plug in some how at home and help provide cheap VoIP calls ?? so then the device would have all your contacts on your mobile and house phone in one. if that makes sense. [and no, it wouldn't be like a brick - home phones are becoming just as small as cell phones. to all sticks-in-the-mud]

no seperate phonebooks for the mobile and then home phone, no seperate ringtones, bills or whatever; just have the one unified device. why have to devices, which are virtually the same thing - twice. just have the one.

i'd buy one in a blink

maybe skype and apple could do something and have this an extra service to add to apples internet services' crown? skype.com has recorded over 44million total downloads of its product, so it has a firm users base - bring VoIP to the masses.
 
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