Since yesterday, Apple started claiming “Apple reinvents the phone”. I am very excited about iPhone. I can’t wait for Dells, Microsofts, etc. to launch comparable products. Someone out there might already be working on a similar phone running Linux. Competition is good for the consumer. Looks like better phones are on their way!
Although Apple and Cingular are launching iPhone together, some day soon we will have mobile phones in our hands as powerful as the manufacturers intended them to be, without the service providers crippling them. In the U.S., just like in many other countries, service providers will then do no more than providing service…without any x-year service contracts. Buy your own phone…we only provide service. BYOP. Why, there are consumers who will gladly pay for a nice phone which does stuff.
Am I going to buy an iPhone come June ‘07? Certainly not. I will probably get Samsung BlackJack or some Blackberry which, I am sure, the iPhone fan(atic)s will be dumping on eBay. I am also sure that a year or so after iPhone becomes available, when Apple comes up with iPhone nano (or something like that), there will be many clunky iPhones to be had for cheap. Yes, I will wait. I am in no hurry. Besides, my old SMT 5600 still works just fine.
iPods are suddenly so passé since Steve Jobs’ iPhone launch yesterday at MacWorld. Before long—mark my words—Apple will launch iPhone-like device, sans mobile phone, with some cool name and marketing. Millions of iPods will gather dust…or end up properly recycled or end up in dumps.
I agree on the craze surrounding the iPhone release. Being a gadget geek, I myself followed the Macworld keynote by steve Live on the net. The phone is priced on the High end and, however much I am fascinated by its features, I will wait until the market for iphone-look-alike gets stabilized.
I still feel that the multi touch feature of the phone will work against it. Not sure how comfortable people will be in typing long mails or SMSs..
I will be getting a beta phone to test in April, and will post a honest review on it soon.
I agree with you about its drawbacks. Also, looks like iPhone (or whatever it eventually gets called) will have an OS more like Windows powered smart phones…not even as powerful as Windows powered PDAs. Folks with a technical bent will be disappointed with the stripped-to-bones version of MacOS X running iPhone. I know some who were imagining running emacs on it!
iPhone requires both hands to dial a number (that is not in the phone already). That may not be possible, nor is recommended, in certain situations like while driving an automobile…unless you place it somewhere, use one hand to dial, and then pick it up to talk on the phone. Too cumbersome.
I look forward to read your review.