Comments on: Apple’s Phone: Your opinion please?

By: ewan

ewan — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:39:44 +0000

Mike, I reckon I will simply have to get one — to at least try it out! It really does look rather exciting!

By: Mike Hedges

Mike Hedges — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:31:53 +0000

I work in the music business and over the last year or so have found I am doing more and more communication using Apples iChat.
It has made video conferencing simple and pleasurable and on top of that the fileshare capabilities are second to none. It is possible to see who is in the office or studio and available anywhere in the world.
Because of this capability we are now doing a recording with the artist and producer in London but the programmer in Stockholm and the guitarist in Nashville.
On top of this our phone bills are down 50% and our texting down 70%.
As Apple is running OSX on the iPhone then I’m sure they plan to have full iChat functionalty running as well and it will change all our lives I promise.
I will be ordering an iPhone in advance. I have not met anybody who doesn’t want one yet, how about you?

By: mark

mark — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:46:13 +0000

Im in the uk so Cingular aint here – I should of said where I was
so I wonder which UK network will get it first

By: James

James — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:23:00 +0000

Email in the post dude

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:29:13 +0000

2MP camera – is that all?
Will it survive drunken nights in the pub?
will they release a new one every 3 months like the other makers?
Do all apple events have the feel of some kind of evangelical cult?
looks pretty sexy though, i’ll have one

By: Dan Lane

Dan Lane — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:24:03 +0000

I watched the liveblog at macrumourslive.com and am currently watching the video from Apple.

The iPhone is an incredible step forward for consumer handsets, it oozes the Apple slickness that switchers like myself have come to expect.

In terms of core functionality, I don’t think the iPhone brings anything new to the table but it’s all wrapped in that beautifully slick package (see the browser for example, using the same Webkit base as Nokia they created something SO much more intuitive), you might have noticed I’m a huge fan of great interfaces and Apple has really excelled in this area.

Look at the Google Maps application… I have Google Maps on my E61 the same core functionality is there but it looks SO much cooler on the iPhone (incidentally I read they are still in the process of licensing the iPhone name from Cisco Linksys). I do hope the built-in GMaps click-to-call features come to the next release of the series 60 app.

I was shocked to hear that the iPhone was EDGE based but it kind of goes hand-in-hand with their choice of Cingular as their US carrier. So who will carry the iPhone in the UK? I’m not 100% sure on this but I believe Orange offer EDGE in the UK but I don’t think anyone else does. So will they update it to the much faster UMTS? If so will they add a second camera to the device and make with the iChat integration… now iPhone Desk iChat video WOULD be ground breaking functionality, but digression aside, who will carry the iPhone in the UK? I like to think T-Mobile but surely they would have secured a worldwide gig? next bet would be Three, they’ve certainly demonstrated recently that they have the vision and drive to take on something like this.

I was very excited about the N95, and still am… but I’m just as excited about the iPhone.

Am I upset that I signed a new contract with T-Mobile and got myself an E61 last week? no!… first of all, the iPhone will be a great consumer handset… in fact I’ll go so far as to say it’ll be the BEST consumer handset for the next year or so.

Personally, I’m totally addicted to push e-mail, apparently the iPhone supports a Yahoo! branded Push IMAP (sounds like IMAP IDLE, which has been supported by Nokia for YEARS) and I’m addicted to good keyboards, I LIKE tactile feedback.

multi-touch vs tactile feedback… it’s a tricky one that I can’t decide until I get my hands on an iPhone.

Yes, it’s exciting and on the surface it’s groundbreaking but underneath, you’re still stuck with the same old fashioned networks. At least having most of my MP3 collection on the iPhone signifies yet another nail in the coffin of the ringtone industry.

In short… when I’m queuing outside the Apple store to buy the iPhone, I’ll have an E61 and probably an N95 in my pockets.

By: HeavyLight

HeavyLight — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:40:54 +0000

Sleek, sexy and, from what I’ve read so far, revolutionary in terms of functionality and user interface.
About time the mobile manufacturers got a huge kick up their collective arses!

If it’s running a subset of OS X, am I right in guessing other apps will be ported over?
Skype by iPhone anybody?

Oh and I’m sure one of the bloggers mentioned there’d be a 3G version presumably for the European market…

Well done Apple!

By: Jim Black

Jim Black — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:02:36 +0000

My18 month old ipod has just died (battery won’t hold a charge) so I can’t say i’m apples biggest fan at the moment.

However Apple do produce someof the most beautiful and most aspirartiional consumer products on the planet, so I expect the phone will be no different.

Interesting comment from Jobs re the killer app though!

By: alex g

alex g — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:51:04 +0000

one word – cingular.

By: Manjit Sandhu

Manjit Sandhu — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:54:43 +0000

I have wanted to convert to Apple for years and never could justify it, the Ipod didn’t and couldn’t do it, one look at the I-phone is all it needed. So roll on UK release and Apple Bull Ring here I come (maybe but, will have the phone for sure). BTW this is not the first time a phone with full screen woithout buttons has been on the market. There was one other years ago!!!

By: Nacho

Nacho — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:29:57 +0000

No 3G
Wait to much months… more in Europe…
No way!

By: pat phelan

pat phelan — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:56:02 +0000

Cingular Mark, if you look close you will see it in the top left hand corner

By: mark

mark — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:51:18 +0000

Looks pretty amazing
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/live-from-macworld-2007-steve-jobs-keynote/
Wonder which network they will go with here?

By: pat phelan

pat phelan — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:50:50 +0000

Look @ Apples market share versus Microsoft market share that will be the share that iphone will have in the mobile world.
Its not like ipod where Apple got a clean jump on a bunch of crap opposition.
quote me please