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1984 said:
I'll I want to know is if the iPhone will be able to display PDF files. I need access to PDF documents on the go.
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I want a Keynote player on the iPhone. Then, with an adapter to connect the iPhone to an overhead projector, I can ditch my laptop for conferences and just take the iPhone.
 
I agree with Jeff, a lot of people round here just need to realx. Rest assured we'll be able to make songs ring tones, or songs we make in Garage Band. It's obvious iTunes will have a ringtones section if they are selling phones, some business people would get away with having a ringtone of their favourite song go off at a meeting, but they may think, and rightly so IMO that it would be unprofessional if the actual song went off with blasting guitars are singing etc. 😉 That's why Apple will have a ringtones section, ringtones will be predictably 99c and teens will buy them too.
 
Random Ping said:
Man, I feel like an idiot. That is such a simple and powerful idea. While composing full songs in Garage Band is fairly hard, composing ring-tone length pieces is easy! Integrating your own voice (or the voice of the caller) is all so easy and fun in Garage Band.

I hope Apple makes this intuitive to do.
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I do this already, and send them to my hunk of junk RAZR via bluetooth.
 
Toe said:
It was strange that Steve showed the Washington Monument as a demo of what you can do with satellite maps... that's nothing compared to what you can do with just the featured he demonstrated:

Imagine you're in a downtown area of a city, but are disoriented as to where you need to walk to get to your destination.

All you have to do is look up the area you are in, zoom in on the satellite view, and look for the buildings around you.

Even if the phone doesn't have integrated GPS to the maps, you can still orient yourself very quickly. That is gonna be amazing.
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Don't you mean "look at their rooftops"? 😀
 
Peace said:
unfortunatly most of google's maps are a few years old.Could be new buildings where you are.😉
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very true. this is what i hope will be the first step towards a architects companion. Since Google maps are being defined using sketchup models, it seems likely that this device could be able to have some sort of sketchup or other google apps compatibility. perhaps it wold make a good "Tour guide" for our customers. Hoping the iwork mobile will be of use to an architect on the go.
 
garageband ringtones, a question????

Any phone with bluetooth/sync capabilities can use garageband ringtones. I have made many for friends/family, converted them to mp3 and played them on a rokr, razr, treo, blackberry, many other sprint bluetooth phones. I'm not going to stop because I want the sexiest phone out there, I'll just copy my custom garageband ringtones to my wife's Iphone (i get her old razr) and take them off my now (nearly worthless) treo 650.

Mac Fly (film) said:
I agree with Jeff, a lot of people round here just need to realx. Rest assured we'll be able to make songs ring tones, or songs we make in Garage Band. It's obvious iTunes will have a ringtones section if they are selling phones, some business people would get away with having a ringtone of their favourite song go off at a meeting, but they may think, and rightly so IMO that it would be unprofessional if the actual song went off with blasting guitars are singing etc. 😉 That's why Apple will have a ringtones section, ringtones will be predictably 99c and teens will buy them too.
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Kudos to these guys

Very interesting work. I'm glad they did it 'cause I don't have the time.
I'm actually most interested in the calendar app. It's not as sexy as the the ringtones or GPSish stuff but I like the new getting-things-done stuf in Leopard like Notes and Todos and extending that onto the iPhone makes it powerful because it'll actually work instead of me having to work it.
 
This is going to sound kind of lame, but here goes:

I really hope that you can use your own mp3 ringtones. I created one a couple of years ago and I've used it ever since. I created it using Audacity on a win machine. Actually, it's the only sound file that I've ever created. It's a way cool (IMHO) BSG tone with the OG cylons speech and eye-moving "woo-woo" sound interspersed. Anyway, I would be quite upset if I coudn't use it.
 
How to lock??

123 said:
LOCK != UNLOCK
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What I want to know is, once you slide your finger to UNLOCK the iPhone and you go to the main menu, HOW do you lock it again??? Do you have to turn if off then on again? If that's the case that's very stupid!
 
Hard to say!

mrat93 said:
In response to the "Ringtone Store" on iTunes as described in the video.

Movies: $9.99 to $14.99
Games: $4.99
T.V. Shows: $1.99
Songs: $0.99
Free 30-second song demos: $0.00
Ringtones: $?.??

My point is if Apple lets people play 30-second demos of any song as many times as they wish, the only logical solutions for ringtones on the iPhone are free 30-second ringtones, like the demos they have in the store, or, selecting a clip of any song, of any length to be a ringtone. Most services charge $2.00 per ringtone. Apple can't do that because nobody wants a 30-second ringtone for $2.00 when you can get the whole song for $0.99. I could also understand $0.49 ringtones because they're cheaper that the whole song. For the "Ringtones" tab in iTunes, that could be so users can select the right clip of their songs for ringtones to sync as ringtones.
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I have to agree with you that Apple might charge for the ringtones. Think about it, ringtones are a multi billion dollar industry that the U.S. hasnt fully tapped into yet, and while it would be cool to just use the songs you already have, the industry would want to MURDER Apple if they just flat out eliminated and entire revenue stream like that.
 
chefmikeyp said:
Any phone with bluetooth/sync capabilities can use garageband ringtones. I have made many for friends/family, converted them to mp3 and played them on a rokr, razr, treo, blackberry, many other sprint bluetooth phones. I'm not going to stop because I want the sexiest phone out there, I'll just copy my custom garageband ringtones to my wife's Iphone (i get her old razr) and take them off my now (nearly worthless) treo 650.
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Not any phone with bluetooth. With most all of Verizon's phones, media file transfer is crippled. It is one of the main reasons I would NEVER go with Verizon. Cingular may have TERRIBLE customer service, but nothing annoys me more than crippling technology. It also annoys me that Apple will be crippling their phone which could otherwise easily run a mobile version of Skype, for when I'm near a trusted 802.11 network.
 
MacFly123 said:
What I want to know is, once you slide your finger to UNLOCK the iPhone and you go to the main menu, HOW do you lock it again??? Do you have to turn if off then on again? If that's the case that's very stupid!
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Yeah 'cause Apple made this phone that only has an unlock feature.... 😕

MacFly123 said:
If that's the case that's very stupid!
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I guess when in doubt run around in circles worrying.
 
shawnce said:
Yeah 'cause Apple made this phone that only has an unlock feature.... 😕


I guess when in doubt run around in circles worrying.
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I'd say it will use the proximity sensor to feel if it's on someone's pocket. The point of the lock is to prevent accidental input, the iPhone already temporarily locks the "keypad" when you hold it to your ear in a call. It could as well lock the keypad when you put it in your pocket and thus cover the sensor. After a given time out (say, 20 seconds) it put the main lock on, i.e. you have to slide your finger (and enter your PIN) to unlock it.

You could as well double click the home button to lock it, but that would not be very Apple-like.

Maybe that's one of the things that have not been decided yet. I guess some people are trying out the prototype in real life situations and decide which method to lock the phone is the best. It should be something you can do without looking at the phone. Maybe the sleep/wake switch on the top does that, and the phone still receives calls when in "sleep". Guess we'll have to wait to find out. Personally, I'd love it to work with the sensor and timeout. Leave it on your desk: it stays unlocked, shows you incoming mails at once. Put it in your pocket: locked. Put it face down on your desk: locked. 🙂
 
if we are not allowed to choose songs from our music library as ringtones and instead are told to buy ringtones from itunes, that is just sad.

hopefully the ringtones tab well just be a way to use itunes to sync midi files to your iphone. in which case i'm totally down with itunes selling midi files but i want to be able to add any midi files i have to itunes.

apple - please don't let the greedy phone companies corrupt you.
 
MacFly123 said:
What I want to know is, once you slide your finger to UNLOCK the iPhone and you go to the main menu, HOW do you lock it again??? Do you have to turn if off then on again? If that's the case that's very stupid!
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Would you please explain why the method you just described is stupid? Why would you need to lock the phone and still leave the screen on? If I lock my Treo, the screen turns off immediately. I think that functionality makes sense.

Maybe you are concerned about a "hold" feature while playing music? That would make sense for Apple to implement. However, considering that that is a feature of every iPod, I would think that Apple already figured out a solution.

Get your panties out of a bunch and explain how you would use this functionality so that we can understand a little more clearly.

Thanks.
 
My cruddy little T610 locks with a simple menu and select. to unlock I simply press the button under select on the screen and press the asterisk to ulock it. The iPhone would probably have a similar menu to go to in order to lock the phone, similar to the menu you have to go into on the iPod to lock the screen. Most cell phone's I've seen don't have a dedicated lock button, but rather the option in a menu that you simply select with the toggle or in this case your finger. That's not too hard is it? 🙄
 
Toe said:
It was strange that Steve showed the Washington Monument as a demo of what you can do with satellite maps... that's nothing compared to what you can do with just the featured he demonstrated:

Imagine you're in a downtown area of a city, but are disoriented as to where you need to walk to get to your destination.

All you have to do is look up the area you are in, zoom in on the satellite view, and look for the buildings around you.

Even if the phone doesn't have integrated GPS to the maps, you can still orient yourself very quickly. That is gonna be amazing.
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On this one though, phones already do this.
http://www.google.com/gmm/index.html

Windows Mobile/Palm OS can talk to $100 GPS receivers over bluetooth. I think the iPhone is interesting, but it will make incremental improvements to services and applications that people are already using today.
 
joeconvert said:
On this one though, phones already do this.
http://www.google.com/gmm/index.html
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Yeah... I even posted that same URL later in this thread. I was wondering if anyone would catch me on that. 😱 😀

I guess the amazing part will be that my phone will do it, provided I
  1. wait until June
  2. fork over a big (though reasonable) chunk of cash for the phone
  3. fork over an unreasonably huge chunk of cash to AT&T for data. Though I suppose they'll have a combined phone-data plan for iPhones. It'll probably still be more than seems right.
 
MIDI Ringtones

Ringtone syncing-would that be bought Cingular/AT&T ringtones or maybe user MIDI ringtones created in software like Babya or Apple Logic could also be synced.
 
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