iPhone

martijn.s · #1 October 27th, 2006, 11:43 AM

hi, i'm new here, i could not find any thread about the iPhone.

new rumors about this phone(s) appear almost every day now:

some rumors i read about:

1 simple phone, and smartphone

3 megapixel Camera

a touch sensitive screen, including a border, allowing to use touch without leaving fingerprints where it's the most annoying.

they are iPods (obviously)

GPS, used for navigation, anti-theft, and to store the location where the photos are taken.

iChat.

good integration with the Mac and iTV, not just synchronization, but the option to mute the sound when receiving a call (and, why not, use the computer as a phone)

eric2006 · #2 October 27th, 2006, 04:29 PM

They've been saying that for a while now.. it's fun to "what-if"

IMHO, if Apple made an iPhone, they wouldn't tack it onto the very successful iPod.

Trip · #3 October 27th, 2006, 06:53 PM

The iPhone rumors have been going around for more than a few years now.

martijn.s · #4 October 27th, 2006, 08:53 PM

yes the rumors have been there for a long time, but the patents, the urls, and common sense show that the iPhone is real (soon)

it's so much more important than an iPod, for me, as a user, because i really hate my phones, i liked the startac, but that's almost 10 years, and 1500 dollars ago (yes that's what i paid for it, me=idiot !), but this time it's different, it's serious

p.s i have to adapt to this sites syntax.

the iphone.org domain is owned by Apple, and only they have the possibility to redirect it to apple.com, see here., and they did less than 3 weeks ago, not that they need this domain anyway, but it's like a big wink,
wink wink.

for me this is huge, about huge details (yes it sounds silly but it isn't, even when u don't notice it, it mathers), it's about one click less, or one key less, or more, for every basic thing i do with a phone, just like the mac, "the beauty is in the details".

symphonix · #5 October 28th, 2006, 03:46 AM

The iPhone rumour has been floating around in one form or another for years.

It is no secret on the Apple campus that R&D have been looking at developing a mobile phone device for ages, however even the most optimistic analysts don't expect it for another 12 months at least - assuming it gets released at all. The technical headaches involved in the project currently make it unappealing for Apple.

Apple have a strict policy of not releasing a product if they think any significant percentage of users are going to have problems with it, and at this stage with the different phone and data networks, media formats, and telecom regulations they're expecting any such product to be fairly troublesome.

MisterMe · #6 October 28th, 2006, 08:30 AM

The problems with the iPhone are not technical. They are business-related. Apple currently has a close relationship with Motorola, the manufacturer of arguably the coolest phones on the market. The rumors are that the iPhone would be available through Cingular. Within the past few weeks, however, Apple, Motorola, and Cingular brought iTunes to a model of Motorola's RAZR. What do you expect from an Apple-branded phone that is not currently available?

martijn.s · #7 October 28th, 2006, 09:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by symphonix

The iPhone rumour has been floating around in one form or another for years.

It is no secret on the Apple campus that R&D have been looking at developing a mobile phone device for ages, however even the most optimistic analysts don't expect it for another 12 months at least - assuming it gets released at all.

i would say, almost all analysts expect the iPhone on januari 7.

apparently i'm not very convincing

martijn.s · #8 October 28th, 2006, 09:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MisterMe

The problems with the iPhone are not technical. They are business-related. Apple currently has a close relationship with Motorola, the manufacturer of arguably the coolest phones on the market. The rumors are that the iPhone would be available through Cingular. Within the past few weeks, however, Apple, Motorola, and Cingular brought iTunes to a model of Motorola's RAZR. What do you expect from an Apple-branded phone that is not currently available?

Motorola removed iTunes from it's phone last week.

the iTunes application contains a lot of messages that are related to a phone, a phone that can play iPod games...