Highly anticipated Apple iPhone revealed!

[Dale Ahn]

Apple has announced today the iPhone and everything we’ve wanted to know for the past however long it’s been. iPhone is what everyone speculated it to be called, following trends of the iPod, but now it is official. The iPhone runs off OS X which will support Widgets, Google Maps, Safari, and iTunes, also offering free push IMAP email through a partnership with Yahoo. All of this will be viewed on the iPhone’s 3.5-inch 480 x 320 touch screen which has multi-finger gestures and apparently so accurate that it doesn’t need a stylus.

Available in June through Cingular/AT&T, the 4GB iPhone will be $499 and the 8GB will be $599 on a two-year contract.

More Specifications:
-4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm
-4.8 ounces / 135 grams
-Quad-band GSM + EDGE
-Automatically engaging Wi-Fi
-Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and A2DP
-5 hours talk, video, browing time
-16 hours audio playback
-2 megapixel camera

Click here to go to the official page.

[via Engadget]

[Jane Lee]

I think there's a hole burning in my pocket as we speak...

[codywu]

You beat me to it. I wonder when it'll come to Canada. They applied for the Canadian patent in 2005 so I'm sure it'll be here sometime in the near future.

[DHKA]

England awaits with open arms.
And they are beginning to ache.
C'mon !!!!!!
Bring it on !

[codywu]

They said it's set to come to Europe in late 2007 and Asia in 2008, but of course you can just go buy one on eBay. 3 GSM so it would be adaptable to most networks world wide.

[yankeejeep]

Once we start seeing apps emerge that are optimized for the small display, this will become the competition to WM devices that Palm used to be. Since it is running on OS X, I would expect this to happen in short order. Right now it cannot replace my PPC but I can foresee it reaching that level of added functionality fairly quickly.

[JasonKnight]

I think the price in the post is wrong.



more information and pictures here

Live from Macworld 2007: Steve Jobs keynote - Engadget

[codywu]

I'm ready to throw away my PDA and phone for this device. Currently I'm hoping that they will release iChat or some form of instant messaging program (most likely Google Talk or Yahoo! Talk becuase they are partners). When you see this interface and look back at a Motorola SLVR or RAZR you feel so unsatisfied. =p

[Dale Ahn]

oops. Thanks for lookin out JasonKnight, price is fixed and good to go.

[Jane Lee]

Don't you just LOVE how Apple prices their products just low enough to where you'd just be like "oh heck with it... I'll just fork over the $100 for 4GB more..."

[mxstone]

I haven't done a side by side comparison (yet) but is this unit fundamentally different than my 8125 with 2 gig mini sd packed with podcasts and mp3's? I love my nano and to me this looks like a standard ppc wrapped in an apple-esqe interface. Don't get me wrong - I am absolutely lusting for one but is this the really the bold new world or a really cool/slick/user-friendly version of what most us already have?

[JasonKnight]

know what mxstone, I dont think we will really know until some one gets there hands on one. the whole open your pictures folder and tilt the iPhone side to side to scroll through them is a cool feature. I heard that the voicemail system on this phone is to make it seem more like e-mail where it downloads it onto the phone along with the information of who called you. and other things like that.

All this really is, is apple trying to do what sony tryed to do (in a sence) make a device do so many things that you would only want that product. MP3player, Camera, Phone, Data Device, and so much more.

(to complete my anailigy (spl) PS2 was made to be an entertainment system, not a gaming system, DVD, CD, PS2 games and PSX games)

they are just trying to work appon what Is already available and take it up a step of 2 or 3 or 10

[dortyboy]

i cant see this replacing my ppc. ppc already has all its function plus other software u can dwnload off the net for improve performance. hey guys. what is cooler than windows mobile. do we even listen to all those songs at all or we rather play around with all the cool features we can add to our windows mobile. plus its cingular which sucks in my book. holla

[B2daO]

HEY HEY HEY!!!!! Dortyboy there will be no badmouthing cingular m'kay!?!?

Now onto my assessment of the new iphone... It is revolutionary ill give it that, but unlike most i dont like thin phones. I went from a Nextel i90 to one of sprints phones and my hand would literally cramp up trying to hold that thing. haha So that'll be one reason I wont be getting the iphone... The other reason i will pass is b/c it has no keyboard, and you have to use your finger to navigate through the phone, I for one hate touching my screen because it leaves smudges, unlike what the guy said at the press conference (go to youtube.com and type in iphone if u havent seen it by now) i rather enjoy my stylus. I cant be bothered

Overall I have my 8525 courtesy of Cingular and i have well over 200 songs and 10 videos on my 2g memory stick.. im sure in time they'll be a 4g, 8g, and so on available, and when there is ill be in line to purchase it giving me even more space. So i think Ill stick to my guns on this one... i wont feel bad when I see others playing with it, cause im content. haha

p.s. that scroll feature is off the hook!!!!! im soooooooo jealous!!!

[nicedude_abad]

Sorry to say but I am not impressed. It somehow doesn't create in my mind the ipodish image. Furthermore, almost all of our mobiles do what it does really. I am just asking here a very simple question, whats new on the table iphone is bringing else than Apple's hype and image?

[yankeejeep]

If it is running OS X, it has the potential to work with a great deal of existing iMac sotware once there are display changes for the small screen. No trade-offs for anemic WM substitute apps if that can be managed.