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iPhone 4GB and 8GB, Coming in January?

We need tons of such iPhone for our University with these features:

- Biuilt-in Mac OS X mobile.
- Wireless

to do this:

1. Make Keynote or PowerPoint presentation on Mac or PC-Windows.

2. Save to the iPhone.

3. Use the wireless iPhone as a remote control for the presentation. No cables or computer involved.

Check out:

http://www.t3.co.uk/news/247/communications/mobile_phone/evidence_mounts_for_january_iphone

http://www.t3.co.uk/nested_content/gallery_assetlisting_navigation?root=633162&result_page=1
http://www.t3.co.uk/nested_content/gallery_assetlisting_navigation?root=633162&result_page=2
http://www.t3.co.uk/nested_content/gallery_assetlisting_navigation?root=633162&result_page=3

Tremendous halo effect on all corporate, education and domestic markets!
 
Just for the record, I predicted dual batteries a while back. I'll dig up the post later, but that's exactly how I said it should be done.

jW
 
i'd buy it. it would be the simultaneous event in which i got a phone for more than free-with-plan and an iPod product.
 
I'm just annoyed that I have meetings ALL day (probably til at least 8pm EST) on MWSF. It's gonna be killer to have to wait all day to find out about this and other releases!
 
AAARGHH!

How can people watch that video? Smug drunk people not knowing where Denmark is... I had to switch off.
 
Macula said:
Apple will need to outdo itself in matters of Quality Assurance and quality of materials/assembly. Cell phones lead tough lives! They fall and crash on the floor, they get wet, scratched and pressed, they go through thousands of keystrokes... Phones are not iPods -- they are heavy duty tools for most busy people in big, rough cities.

Apple, I hope, will spare us Macbook-type defects, scratch-prone materials, flickering screens, whines and the like. True, most cell phones in the market suck in the quality department, anyway. But Apple will have more to lose than your average phone maker if quality does not turn out to be highly consistent.

It's up to them: They really have the potential to release the best phone ever.
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I agree. It was my second thought--behind "God, I hope Apple does this"--was "And I hope they don't do it with this new found crappy quality."

Jobs has got to start ordering products from the retail channel. Literally just walk into the store in Palo Alto and buy some products.

I think the execs are missing how bad the situation is. Sure, the prototypes and sample runs prepared for the execs are going to be flawless. (The manufacturers and underlings make sure of that.)

But once things go into high production, quality hits the toilet.

Apple, and Steve, need to remember it's the quality that ends-up in the hands of the paying customers that matter--not the units shown to reviewers and used by the Apple executive team. and Apple has been sliding at an alarming rate in this area.

I used to think it was the complainers. The vocal few. But as a guy who buys two new Macs a year, every new iPod, and runs a company which buys about 20 Macs a month, you can see the change in the past 18 - 24 months. It's startling.

Not trying to be a wet blanket here. Phones are too important--safety, etc.--for Apple to screw this up. Yes, the hot macbooks, uneven screen quality, bad builds, etc., even in the revised C2D line are annoying and frustrating. But a phone is a different matter.

Pul it together Apple.
 
Mr. DG said:
AAARGHH!

How can people watch that video? Smug drunk people not knowing where Denmark is... I had to switch off.
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yeah... i turned it off too. i can't stand the guy in the left.








oh and his notebook sucks.
 
Mr. DG said:
AAARGHH!

How can people watch that video? Smug drunk people not knowing where Denmark is... I had to switch off.
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You may not like Kevin and Alex, especially those in the older crowd, but you can't complain about Kevin's connections. ;)
 
thejadedmonkey said:
Ok, so it the price points are correct, this means that an iPhone will cost the same as an iPod nano of the same size. That doesn't sound right, which means Apple will have to either, 1- increase the space on the nano, or 2- lower the price on the nano. We all know apple will never lower the price, so this means there's an iPod nano update in the works too!
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Nano prices: 2gb-150 , 4gb-200, 8gb-250

They're not the same price...

I'm regretting buying an 8gb nano now.
 
Americans are so far behind with mobile (cellular) phones that Apple will have to do really well to make an impression on the UK market and also any other markets outside of America.

Lots of people buy SIM free phones in England and sell the free ones that come with a contract. We have phones with 3MP cameras, really thin and aren't into flip phones (apart from RAZR) that much. Candy bar style like Sony and Nokia are more traditional in this country.

Saying that, I will get one as I am a sucker for all Apple.
 
Chundles said:
Actually, podfuture, a member here predicted the new nano and a number of other iPod-related products long before Kevin Rose did. poddy seemed to have very intimate knowledge of both the production and the design processes of the Apple team.
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Chundles....are you on vacation at the moment? How long for? Hope you enjoy our country while you are here. :) You usually reside in Australia in The Gong if memory serves me.
 
WildPalms said:
Chundles....are you on vacation at the moment? How long for? Hope you enjoy our country while you are here. :) You usually reside in Australia in The Gong if memory serves me.
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No, I'm in the Gong right now.

My location is all part of something I can't tell you.

And maybe there are more people in the US using CDMA, who cares? There are more people outside the US who are NOT using CDMA, Apple should make this phone globally appealing not just something for the US consumers.
 
Macula said:
Apple will need to outdo itself in matters of Quality Assurance and quality of materials/assembly. Cell phones lead tough lives! They fall and crash on the floor, they get wet, scratched and pressed, they go through thousands of keystrokes... Phones are not iPods -- they are heavy duty tools for most busy people in big, rough cities.

Apple, I hope, will spare us Macbook-type defects, scratch-prone materials, flickering screens, whines and the like. True, most cell phones in the market suck in the quality department, anyway. But Apple will have more to lose than your average phone maker if quality does not turn out to be highly consistent.

It's up to them: They really have the potential to release the best phone ever.
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My concern as well. My Treo is built like a Soviet-era tank (bug, bulky, prone to shutting down, and can kill Nazi just by throwing it). I have dropped it more times than I care to think about. Each time it turns the cell radio off but boots right back when I press the button. My iPod, on the other hand, has never been dropped from a height of 18" and at that height, only 2 times. I think I have dropped my infant son more times than that.:p
 
EricNau said:
I don't get the two batteries... at all. :confused:

"Darn, I need to call 911 because I'm having a heart attack but battery number 1 (the phone battery) is dead. Good thing I can still listen to music with battery number 2." :rolleyes:
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How likely is that to happen?

For a more plausible issue:

I spent all morning rocking out on my iPhone and now I can't call my parents for a ride home from the mall.

A phone can run for 5 days in standby. A music player generally gets less than 12 hours out of a cell phone battery.
 
All this speculation. All I can say is that I hope it is available for all the big wireless companies so everyone can enjoy it!
 
I cant wait to see what this is like, i hope that it is a nano and windows mobile killer, because that is what i want.

I would like a small stable smartphone and an iPod nano all in one unit.

I hope for:
  • Large resolution screen (min 240x320)
  • keypad or keybord, & touch screen
  • camera (anything will do, just enough for mms & email)
  • a few GB memory, about 4gb seems right
  • IM (Instant Messaging) all my friends are on MSN
  • E-mail
  • Mac syncing

anything anyone want to add?
 
Other than the "All providers" thing, the specs and pricing looks plausable (the business model doesn't, I've said that before, but Apple is not incapable of getting so excited about something that it's able to miss the problems with it.)

Adding GSM functionality to an existing device that otherwise has all the hardware you need shouldn't cost more than $50, using commodity components. I'm sure Qualcomm, despite the dying nature of cdmaOne/CDMA2000, is still eager to sell chips that implement that standard for less than $50 too. I'm thinking that if they're aiming at all providers (including the ones that make it hard to activate unbranded phones...), they'll make a CDMA2000 version and a GSM version.

If you doubt this, Motorola and Nokia both have GSM phones that sell for less than $50 retail. They're aimed at developing markets and certain prepaid operators.

I don't think this will be 3G. There's no call for it in the US, the only 3G standard in the US that's widely implemented is CDMA2000, and that will be Apple's primary market. UMTS is coming next year (yes, I know it's available in a handful of selected markets, on non-standard frequencies. Who cares.) For now, GSM is fine.

I think it's a bad idea of Apple to do this, but that's what it looks like they're doing. At least, on the positive side, we'll see some new ideas and additional nice phones (probably) in the market.
 
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