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More Apple iPhone Evidence? 4th Quarter 2006?

Integrated Sensing Display

😕 If Apple is able to include the Integrated Sensing Display on a full screen iPod device (Mobile Me), that has mobile phone capabilities (iPhone), that would challenge any mobile phone producer out there.
 
touring said:
😕 If Apple is able to include the Integrated Sensing Display on a full screen iPod device (Mobile Me), that has mobile phone capabilities (iPhone), that would challenge any mobile phone producer out there.
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Sure functionality is one thing but service is the catch. What service provider is going to buy into it? How many people will have access to it? Where will it be useable?

The idea that Apple could get into the VoIP is an interesting one but I have to agree that as Apple gets more diversified the less effective they become. Let's get the rest of the MacTels to market first and help the software developers make the transition now. Being mid-stream s•cks.
 
Apple Motorola Connection

Even though Apple left Motorola on the processor side, I think that the connection between the two companies is still quite strong. There could be more Apple-Motorola-Cingular synergy coming down the road.😎
 
touring said:
Even though Apple left Motorola on the processor side, I think that the connection between the two companies is still quite strong. There could be more Apple-Motorola-Cingular synergy coming down the road.😎
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guess i'll just stand on the sideway and watch it crash 😉
 
A phone would be a good thing. Although my carrier would not make it available. (Stinking Centenial Wireless, I will be glad when my contract is up)

It would also be neat for it to have a feature that would let you autosync with your .mac account.

Speaking of .mac I visited the Chicago store today and got a 1 year subscription for $69. 😀

I would never have gotten one at $99.
 
Marked this a negative for one reason....

As much as I would love to see Apple put their own cell phone, I'm still wondering if there will be CDMA support (aka-Sprint/Verizon). I enjoy Sprint very much (great coverage where I live in comparison to all other carriers). I would pay full price for one of these new phones in a heartbeat (so I don't get that lame 2-year-contract crap) if Apple would release a Sprint version. But until I see news that Apple will go CDMA along with GSM, I'm marking this negative.

Yes, biased, but I am not switching to another carrier just to have an Apple-branded phone. But should one come out for Sprint I would be more than happy to drop my current phone (Samsung-I500) in a moment's notice.

EDIT: Grammar nazi attacks!
 
Option - A ???

maxterpiece said:
What authority does the opinion a character from Mortal Kombat have regarding Apple's future?
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In my opinion, the Option-A character has no authority.
 
Integrated Sensing Display

Is an Integrated Sensing Display being used in any products? Handheld, mobile phone, laptop, ...???
 
MacsomJRR said:
i so wish i hadn't just bought a treo🙁
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Eh, you'll be fine. I can't imagine Apple jumping into the mobile phone market until next summer, at the earliest (just a hunch*).

Unless... a 2-year contract (with said new Treo's service provider) has you concerned. 'Cause I do think before your new contract expires, Apple will redefine the mobile phone game. As I am sure most here can agree, it desperately needs redefinition. Currently, (at least in the States) it is OUT. OF. CONTROL.

When that time does come, and if you are still under contract, I'll suggest the beauty at which Apple's new phone integrates with your Mac (alone) will be worth breaking any contract (fees and all) with insert bastard cell phone provider name here.


* no more, no less.
 
I guess I have to put myself into the "nay" camp. I just don't see what Apple would get from entering a field with small margins and huge initial costs, when they can just further licence technologies like iTunes and .Mac with established cellphone makers. This also helps to avoid some of the hassles with dealing with the wireless service providers.

If they were to enter the cellphone market, they would have to get it perfect the first time around ... no room for error as the new kid on the block. Not like the iPod where they went into a fairly sparse market with a much superior product. There are lots of great phones on the market now that can surf the web, take pictures, play music ... and oh yeah, make phone calls too ...

If there is going to be an iPhone, it had better a category killer.

BTW, does it not strike anyone else that iPhone fits as a software/service title too? I'm thinking that Apple is getting ready to launch telephony/VOIP functionality to complement iChat. Why try to get into the crowded cellphone market, when you can try to establish yourself as the purveyor of the most simple, user-friendly, internet phone service around while the market is still young. Apple could give the software away for free, sell airtime packages or per minute plans, and sell hardware accessories like handsets, headsets and microphones.

Makes much more business sense to me ... and sounds a lot more like Apple's style, no?
 
nawlej said:
BTW, does it not strike anyone else that iPhone fits as a software/service title too? I'm thinking that Apple is getting ready to launch telephony/VOIP functionality to complement iChat. Why try to get into the crowded cellphone market, when you can try to establish yourself as the purveyor of the most simple, user-friendly, internet phone service around while the market is still young. Apple could give the software away for free, sell airtime packages or per minute plans, and sell hardware accessories like handsets, headsets and microphones.

Makes much more business sense to me ... and sounds a lot more like Apple's style, no?
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I like the idea of a VoIP service or something much simpler than most people are talking about.

Take Airport. Add a phone jack (so it hooks up to the wall.)
Sell Airport handsets. SIP + Bonjour = simplicity and standards compliance. Only set-up the user would have to do on the phones is program in the WPA or WEP password for their private network.

Resut: A cordless phone system that doesn't interfere with 802.11 (indeed, it makes use of it. Europeans with DECT: in America, most cordless phone systems run on 2.4GHz and interfere nastily with 802.11. They're also pretty much all incompatable with one another. And nobody has ISDN which, in this case, is a blessing because it means Apple's adapter would be very simple.)

Apple, should you be planning this, do us a favour though and don't make it "One more thing". Cordless phones are even less exciting than iPod speakers.

BTW such handsets could also fit in well with the wireless client device I've advocated elsewhere. Let them browse shared iTunes libraries, piping the music out to a headset jack. You could even give them iPod docks, and let users seat them in iPod Hifis when they're not in use. My goodness, the iPod Hifi might end up being useful in such a scenario!
 
nawlej said:
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If there is going to be an iPhone, it had better a category killer.

BTW, does it not strike anyone else that iPhone fits as a software/service title too? I'm thinking that Apple is getting ready to launch telephony/VOIP functionality to complement iChat. Why try to get into the crowded cellphone market, when you can try to establish yourself as the purveyor of the most simple, user-friendly, internet phone service around while the market is still young. Apple could give the software away for free, sell airtime packages or per minute plans, and sell hardware accessories like handsets, headsets and microphones.

Makes much more business sense to me ... and sounds a lot more like Apple's style, no?
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Not hard to kill the phone category, since most/all suck from a functional perspective and aesthetic perspective.

iPhone:
iPod nano size and functionality
a proper phone interface - at last
click wheel with numbers around the circle
bluetooth - sync to iCal; wireless headset; no more iPod cables!
iTunes direct - provides revenue stream to Apple (who needs to iTunes via a computer)
tiny cameras are already in other macs
works on any GSM network, any provider
phone retailers make money on iTunes refills
network providers make money on iTunes feeds

I want one just for the phone.
 
iTalk Phone and more

Hi I'm new here. I came across this video on Yahoo Video. I searched the forum but could not find anything related to iTalk cell phone. You can see the video here:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3168733759916419298&q=italk&pl=true
This is the discription of the video:
Spec commercial for a new cell phone from Apple by award winning filmmaker Christopher DeSantis with design by Gregory DeSantis.

From the video the phone looks to have a built in camera and iPod controls.

Sorry if this has been posted before.
 
molsonboy said:
Hi I'm new here. I came across this video on Yahoo Video. I searched the forum but could not find anything related to iTalk cell phone. You can see the video here:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3168733759916419298&q=italk&pl=true
This is the discription of the video:
Spec commercial for a new cell phone from Apple by award winning filmmaker Christopher DeSantis with design by Gregory DeSantis.

From the video the phone looks to have a built in camera and iPod controls.

Sorry if this has been posted before.
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I haven't seen this before - very good find. Very cool product idea 🙂 .

Thanks!
 
molsonboy said:
Hi I'm new here. I came across this video on Yahoo Video. I searched the forum but could not find anything related to iTalk cell phone. You can see the video here:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3168733759916419298&q=italk&pl=true
This is the discription of the video:
Spec commercial for a new cell phone from Apple by award winning filmmaker Christopher DeSantis with design by Gregory DeSantis.

From the video the phone looks to have a built in camera and iPod controls.

Sorry if this has been posted before.
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Now that would be a cool phone!!!
 
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