iDunno
January 9, 2007
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Posted by Aubrey Turner
Apple finally put an end to all the annoying speculation today by announcing the iPhone.
As I followed along with Engadget’s coverage I was increasingly interested. This might finally be the device I’ve been looking for:
- It integrates an organizer, phone, camera, internet communications, and iPod all into one device.
- It works with POP3 and IMAP (includes free Yahoo Push IMAP account).
- It has a new touch interface to avoid having to deal with all those annoying little buttons
- It uses OSX for full-featured applications.
- It uses a real web browser and has the resolution needed to get away with it.
- It works well with Google maps (Jobs demonstrated calling a business directly from the Google map results).
- It handles movies (i.e. the “video iPod”) and pictures.
Nice form factor, good bright and colorful interface:
What’s that in the upper left corner?
Nevermind, they’re talking about more nice features. Five hour talk time. Sixteen hours of audio playback. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0. It’s a quad-band GSM and EDGE phone.
Uh oh, they said EDGE. My enthusiasm began to fade a bit.
Sure enough, reading on I found that Apple and Cingular have made an agreement. You can only get the iPhone with Cingular.
Oh well… I guess I can keep waiting for the perfect converged portable device.
Somebody wake me when an iPhone is available on a real network (fewest dropped calls, my ass).
Categories: Technology
I will never ever get an iphone.
Never Ever.
I will never ever get any apple product.
I hope cisco sue them for everything for “iPhone”
From what I read today on C-Net, they’ve reached an agreement with Cisco for the use of the name.
William, I bet you were one of those guys who said that the iPod was an iTurd and was going to flop when Jobs announced it, right?
I’m going to jump on this thing like John Wiley Price on a TV camera when it comes out. I already use Cingular, and have great service.
Cingular was my main complaint as well, with the slight addition that it wouldn’t replace my iPod because of the small size (8GB, max). But if they can open it to other networks, and add more storage, I’ll be right there once my i500 dies. (Apple’s phone is the first since Samsung’s (sadly, discontinued) model that has everything I want on it.)
The size doesn’t bother me. I’ve been pretty happy with my 4GB Nano. I don’t usually feel the need to take my entire collection of music with me, so I manually manage the Nano and just transfer over whatever strikes my fancy at the moment.
I briefly toyed with the idea of getting an 80GB Nano to carry my entire collection, but just couldn’t justify it.
Of course, if you’re big into video, I suppose the memory limit might be more bothersome, as video is pretty bulky.
Heh. I just noticed I said “80GB Nano.” Now that would be quite an accomplishment.
Just pretend I said “80GB iPod”.
It uses Cingular? That’s a deal killer for me right there. Verizon may not be the best, but at least I get reception at home, in the office and most places around town. When I had Cingular I could not get reception inside a wood-frame grocery store unless I was pressed on the glass at the front of the store. The only place at home I got reception was in the alley behind the garage—forget about inside the house (to be fair that situation has improved. My brother has Cingular and he can use it in my dining room if he is in the far corner. The rest of the house is still off limits.
Windy,
It’s exactly that sort of experience that sent me from Cingular to Verizon. When I moved to my current house I found that while I could usually make or answer a call from anywhere, if I didn’t want it to drop I had to press myself against the window in the dining area.
At my mother’s house in the country I’d have to go stand in the middle of a field to make a call (and even then got only 1 or 2 bars at best).
But what infuriated me, and eventually prompted me to leave, was when I could be in visual site of a tower (with 5 bars) and still have calls dropped. It became kind of a standing joke with my friends and family. Hello? Hello? Damn phone… In one particularly egregious episode I had to call the other party back three or four times in a 15 minute call.
With Verizon I get 4 or 5 bars at my mother’s place in the house (I even get digital signal and can use SMS) and I can use my phone just about anywhere I’ve gone in the past year and a half since I switched. So far the only dead spot I’ve found is while driving between Texline, TX and Clayton, NM (i.e. in the middle of nowhere), and I haven’t yet had a dropped call.