this iphone had better show up.
i've been holding out on a new phone for awhile now.
Come on folks, how long have we been hearing about the "iPhone"??? Too long for anything to be considered concrete. Why would Apple come into the cell phone market? There are no glaring problems with the market like there was with the mp3 market in 2000-2001. Companies that have tried to be super innovative with their phones have had their products end up like the Cube. Anyone remember NGAGE???? That was a Nokia product.
If Nokia couldn't make something work in their own industry what does Apple really think they can bring to the table? The ONLY thing that could work is an iChat feature where you can also connect to AIM and iChat accounts on home computers through the phone.
the single biggest, and probably worst offender of glaring deficiencies in the cell phone market is the user interface. no current phone has a good ui, and having worked on a couple of future concepts for sony and hp there's nothing in the pipeline from either of those two.
as for why would apple want to be in the market? simple fact is phones and music players are going to converge for a lot of people -- not all, but a lot. apple needs an entrant in to that market to prevent lost sales.
the ngauge was a failure not because it was from nokia, but because it was a sprawling mess of a device with an absurd product design (really talking in to the side of the phone WTF?!), bad games (which is bad for a gaming device) and a muddled marketing message.
on a purely subjective level, i find 90% of mobile phones' industrial design to be very poor. the iphone i would expect to be second to none in terms of its ID.
Well my iPod 4G just died, I need that iPhone with PDA and music in one. Not that interested in it's video phone capabilites.
u do realise that it won't go above 8gb max memory
JUST SEEN I AM NOW A MACRUMORS MEMBER! HOORAY
My perdiction is that if this is a real product, Steve will show off something in January to get everyone excited and over a period of 6 months roll the product out to the service providers. In the cell phone industry phones are always pre anounced to build demand then over time those phones come available at the provider stores. There is no way apple can coordinated all the providers to offer the phone at the same time. They have promotions already set up with other manufactures that they must let run the course.
Not to say that you will not be able to pull your SIM card from you current phone and plug it into a nice new white iphone when they are available. but providers these days can block any phone from working on their network if they do not recognize the model.
With a risk as big as this and having to deal with all the providers to make it work I doublt apple will build millions of them and have the retail channel full when they make the announcement. I bet it rolls out slowly.
I'm going to make a bold statement (in boldface, no less). You know why we won't see the iPhone at MWSF in 2007?
BECAUSE IT DOESN'T ****ING EXIST.
Talk amongst yourselves.![]()
Okay, but what about the Samsung Blackjack. Isn't that a precursor to the iPhone?
You probably don't remember but the first PC had a 5 meg hard disk and the first Apple I remember used a floppy.
I remember plugging my TRS-80 into my cassette deck.![]()
It would be great if Steve just took a phone call on the iPhone and didn't say anything about it, just used it and put it back in his jeans. That would create some buzz.
I am one of the sorry souls with a Verizon raped Razr, so I know what cell phone hatred is about. I love the prospect of an Apple phone that works well and looks good doing it, but I can't shake the feeling that cell service predators, I mean providers, will do everything in their power to ruin the user experience. I hope I'm wrong.
I don't get it either, and I'm living here.They won't be doing this in the UK. I don't get the US phone market at all. So backwards.