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Erm, all the TV advertisements are of iPhones completing various tasks (email, web, photo, music, calls, etc.) How much more technical-feature oriented can a commercial get?

So you're content with what you already know about the device?

What about simple things such as battery life or whether the phone has a vibrate function? If you already know, please share this with me, via PM or post here.

You also missed my point, I wasn't talking about the commercials either, why can't I go to Apple.com or AT&T.com and look at the specs, we can with any other phone even if it hasn't been released, but no we have to wait till the release day.
 
I'm interested by the reference in both the document here and on the iPhone website to multi-touch technology. All the adverts I've seen only demonstrate single touch technology (one finger at a time) rather than the cool but somewhat derivative technology M$ have been demonstrating:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4217348.html

So is the iPhone true multi-touch?

Where have you been? Perhaps you should watch the demo of the iPhone when Jobs introduced the device.
 
So you're content with what you already know about the device?

What about simple things such as battery life or whether the phone has a vibrate function? If you already know, please share this with me, via PM or post here.

You also missed my point, I wasn't talking about the commercials either, why can't I go to Apple.com or AT&T.com and look at the specs, we can with any other phone even if it hasn't been released, but no we have to wait till the release day.

I'm content with what I've seen that I'll try and get one release day. I'm not going to stand in line, but there's a Cingular/ATT store on my way to work.

Apple's site says up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing, 16 hours of audio playback on the battery life. I'm willing to assume it will have a vibrate function because it is a de facto standard in the industry, and if it doesn't, I'll live.

As far as seeing more specs, it'd be nice, but they probably figure the device will be instantly backordered anyhow. Anyone not into being an early adopter (beta tester) will have ample opportunity to review the specs after release.
 
Re: multi-touch

Where have you been? Perhaps you should watch the demo of the iPhone when Jobs introduced the device.

Better yet check out this vid from a New York Times reporter (David Poge). He actually the same day Steve announced it, got to handle it, the video on the right side of his article is pretty cool. It shows his day at Macworld and then him using the phone.

It also shows him using his index finger and thumb to zoom in and out on some pictures.

A really good review.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/some-hands-on-time-with-the-iphone/
 
Ponderosa or the Sizzler for Steak

Ok, that is just terrible if you want good steak go to Peter Lugers, Mortons, Ruth's Chris or even Uncle Jacks....but man you have pretty low standards.
 
i've been trying to get an answer to this but haven't, yet: will Address Book, iCal and Mail sync completely to the iPhone?

--will contacts sync in their entirety, including home and work addresses, multiple phone numbers, AND the notes fields?
--iCal events including links, alarms, etc?

Absolutely. Apple have had Adress Book and iCal syncing on the ipod sorted for years. I can even sync my Nokia 6230 addresses perfectly via iSync including all the fields you specified.
With such a big screen and now a keypad there's no reason at all that they wouldn't have this absolutely perfect. If you buy it and it turns out it doesnt have at least these too and most likely a full mail app too, then I'll give you a full refund!
 
Is sarcasim that hard to see on the web? :)

No living human would consider Sizzler a hi-class anything.... Hi volume on the other hand. And dead humans tend not to post much on macrumors.

I only saw multi-touch in action with Jobs - I have yet to see it working in the latest round of adverts. I'm skeptical over the touch-screen bit for one reason - lack of tactile feedback. A touchscreen keyboard would never be as accurate as one with buttons, just due to the feedback issue. You can't feel where keys are - so that mandates your continuous attention to the screen for any input at all. Even simplel "send" commands. That could become tedious. My Treo has a limited touch screen - yet I use the "hard buttons" 99% of the time, especially when on the go.
 
I wonder which chapter trains salespeople to tell folks not to touch the iPhone with a 10 foot pole? My mother-in-law was at a Cingular/at&t store today and the sales guy told her to stay away from the iPhone simply because no one would insure it. I've never dropped a dime on a protection plan and I figure if I drop a $600 phone it's nobody's fault but mine. She said he was telling everyone the same thing, so hopefully he'll drive down demand in the area enough that there'll be one in stock when I get there on the 29th :)
Yeah....that's 'kinda funny. The way I understand it, you can't get insurance on any PDA from the same outfits that insure standard cell phones. I just got a Treo with Palm OS for my g/f and they stated that they didn't offer insurance for it. However, there is a company (probably more than one) that does insure PDA's. I'm pretty sure it's Safeco but I"m not posiive.
 
Erm, all the TV advertisements are of iPhones completing various tasks (email, web, photo, music, calls, etc.) How much more technical-feature oriented can a commercial get?

He means that he wants to know what kinda of processer, how much ram, etc is in there..


which.. makes no sense at this point... for the majority of people who cares how much ram the iphone has... its what it can do for you that matters...
 
I would think that vendors of other high end devices like the Blackberry would be real nervous right now. Anyone know a feature that the Blackberry has that the iPhone doesn't deliver - yet?
 
I would think that vendors of other high end devices like the Blackberry would be real nervous right now. Anyone know a feature that the Blackberry has that the iPhone doesn't deliver - yet?

Do the newer BB's need cell service to receive emails? I used to carry one of the pager style units and I could get email in places that didn't have cell service at all.
 
Due to the fact my Treo 650 is a Sprint version I re-programmed to work on Verizon, they would not offer any type of insurance for it. (obviously) They would not even activate it, so I had to inform them it was my old Audiovox phone that I needed to turn on. ;)

So for insurance, I went via State Farm, I paid 24 dollars for a year-long "Personal Articles" policy - and it's cheaper to boot. My coverage is for 600.00, I'm not sure what the cap is.

That could be an option.
 
Is sarcasim that hard to see on the web? :)

No living human would consider Sizzler a hi-class anything.... Hi volume on the other hand. And dead humans tend not to post much on macrumors.

I only saw multi-touch in action with Jobs - I have yet to see it working in the latest round of adverts. I'm skeptical over the touch-screen bit for one reason - lack of tactile feedback. A touchscreen keyboard would never be as accurate as one with buttons, just due to the feedback issue. You can't feel where keys are - so that mandates your continuous attention to the screen for any input at all. Even simplel "send" commands. That could become tedious. My Treo has a limited touch screen - yet I use the "hard buttons" 99% of the time, especially when on the go.

Agreed, on all counts.
Sizzler... Ponderosa... surely that was tongue firmly planted in cheek.

I too have a Treo and use the hard keys 99% of the time.
When Steve announced the iPhone, I began using the touch screen more - just to get used to that as a concept. And while Apple's implementatin of touch screen does seem better than Palm's, I have my concerns.
The tactile issue is huge. If you were ever in a situation where you had to text while NOT looking at the screen, without physical buttons, the odds of illegible messages increase dramatically.

And something I have yet to see, is the ability to type in landscape mode. All typing demos (I've seen) have all been in portrait mode. Seems to me, that a landscape typing option would allow for a larger key pad and thus, more accurate, typing experience (more double-thumb action as opposed to the single finger-action we have seen in every typing demo to date - again, concerned).

I agree with many that any time we have seen the iPhone in operation, it is the same, very controlled movements/actions. When this thing is in the public's hands, that's when we'll get a real understanding of exactly what is/is not possible (I have a sneaking suspicion that it will be much more versatile than what we have seen, thus far). And to the above poster who questioned Address Book, Mail, iCal syncing: that is the exact reason this device exists. If it does ANYTHING, it will sync perfectly with your Mac.
Otherwise, what's the point? Calamari?
 
So you're content with what you already know about the device?

What about simple things such as battery life or whether the phone has a vibrate function? If you already know, please share this with me, via PM or post here.

I do believe the battery life is stated on the Apple website - http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/specs.html

5 Hours for talk/video/browsing
16 hours for iPod playback

As for vibrating alert...no idea! I would be shocked if a mobile phone didn't have it. I do agree with you though that there is a lot to still be answered- not long until they are out though. Guess we can wait a few weeks more..
 
So you're content with what you already know about the device?

What about simple things such as battery life or whether the phone has a vibrate function? If you already know, please share this with me, via PM or post here.

You also missed my point, I wasn't talking about the commercials either, why can't I go to Apple.com or AT&T.com and look at the specs, we can with any other phone even if it hasn't been released, but no we have to wait till the release day.

DavidPogue said:
January 14th,
2007
7:51 pm

Lots of you have asked if the iPhone has a vibrate mode.

On one hand, I can’t imagine Apple would produce a phone without one. The iPhone even has a Ringer On/Off switch on the left side–a fantastic idea, as found on the Treo.

On the other hand, I’ve Googled, I’ve left messages for Apple, I’ve listened to the keynote again (Steve Jobs calls the switch a “Ring and silent” switch)–and I have found NO reference to the iPhone having a vibrate mode or not.

We may just have to wait on this one!

–Pogue

— Posted by David Pogue
From his iPhone FAQ
 
I would think that vendors of other high end devices like the Blackberry would be real nervous right now. Anyone know a feature that the Blackberry has that the iPhone doesn't deliver - yet?

Corporate connectivity. Price. Seriously, the iPhone and Blackberry are not direct competitors. Oh sure, a small minority will consider mobile email the primary application and will evaluate both, but those wanting a consumer-oriented multimedia/web/phone device will not, just as they don't today, look at Blackberry's options, and those wanting a communications device that integrates with their office email/calender/etc system will ignore the iPhone.

The serious competition is with more apparently ordinary phones like the RAZR and its assorted stylish clones, plus messaging "Lifestyle" phones like the Sidekick. People will ask themselves whether they want a cool looking phone for $200 that does X, or one for $500-600 that does X and Y, and looks and feels better, and will also replace their iPod.

Blackberry doesn't have much to worry about. Neither does Palm. The companies with the most to lose are Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung, though the likely low sales (due to high price) of the iPhone, at least for the first few months, will give them a chance to see what's happening and change what they're doing. As for the makers of the Sidekick, they better already have a plan in place as the only other thing that'll save them right now is that T-Mobile can't sell iPhones.
 
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