Apple Registers iPhone Trademark

[uberman42]

Homeskillets...get Qualcomm on the ball regarding bluetooth...they are working on chipsets that utilize b-tooth, but we need to get more mac fanatics to chime up and tell them of it as a value proposition to push it along...as you noticed, sprint and verizon are really the only two providers that do not have bluetooth enabled handsets because Qualcomm chipsets (whic are on 99.999% of their phones) do not have them integrated in the design...send them a letter...<http://www.cdmatech.com/cgi-bin/contact.pl>...and Qualcomm excels correctly when it comes to robust phone and network design...unlike GSM which are slow, shoddy, bad in coverage and has a propensity to drop calls...but alas always stretching by being the pioneers of adopting new tech.

as for iphone- i think that apple is actually trying get iPhone as a platform into cellphones (like symbian,java,palm, et al)...i mean what if you put the ease of use, connectivity, and adherence to open standards on a phone...Howz about syncing your cellphone that contains a firewire port (firewire over IP) to transfer data quickly? Or having a phone sans a keypad but just a wheel to do everything (like bringing back the rotary dialer- talk about a blast from the past.

 

[ChicagoMac]

The iphone will be something similar to the Handspring Treo. As some have already said, it would utilize Ical and I believe a revived version of the Newton. Apple was simply ahead of their time with the original. It would be more than just a phone but also a wireless web browser (Have you ever tried checking your email on a cell phone? It's like looking through a keyhole.). It would also have a color screen. I also believe we'll see it in January at MWSF. Just my opinion.

Then again, maybe the Ipod will be transformed into this creation, expanding it's capabilities. The ipod with wireless internet and hand writing recognition? There is already a rumor of the color screen. In that case, Iphone would be the software installed in the ipod giving you the ability to use your Ipod as a phone. I don't think this scenario is as likely, however, since the ipod seems to be doing so well already. I still think we'll find out in January.

 

[mangoman]

I'm predicting an improved iPod: color screen, with some cool SOFTware enhancements, too. Not much more, if anything.

Now, as for what I'd LIKE to see...(Ahh, I can hear the groans already...)

 

[sprescott1974]

gotta be software

making phones just doesn't look like a profitable move for apple. the iPod made sense because it was a market they could easily jump into with a great product (usability, form factor, et al.)

i also don't think apple is going to be getting into the VoIP territory. It is just too complicated. I consider myself almost a power user and i would have no use for something of this sort. Apple seems to be all about simplifying the home computer so that any old joe can do everything old sci-fi movies showed them they would be able to. that is what the digital hub is all about. you can connect your cameras, your stereo, your cell phone.

now you'll be able to connect your home phone too.

so first, most households still have landlines in them. it is neccessary to have a working landline in your home to use dsl broadband. but it also has made it much easier to implent dsl as the number 1 source of broadband access over cable.

currently with a bluetooth adaptor and my t68i a call comes in on my cell and the contact pops out of the address book on my iBook and tells me that i am getting a call on my cell phone and who it is. i can then use a voice command or touch a button on my wireless bluetooth headset and answer the call.

what i see apple doing with the iPhone app is applying the functionality i have with my cell to my landline. of course adding more to it like auto-answer, voice mail, away messages, video conferencing i would imagine would eventually be a part as well. all of the technology is already there (answering machines, cell phones, caller id) Apple just needs to roll it into one neat package (like they do so well). i'd love to be sitting at my computer have a call popup and answer it in just a few strokes of the mouse.

this would put the mac only a few steps away from truely being the center of your digital world.

 

[Thanatoast]

wild and crazy thought: what if the ipod was upgraded, and instead of being a combo cell phone, was just a wireless enabled pda with VoIP? wouldn't have much coverage though... sigh...maybe some day (like when we all go to work in flying cars)