If you’re a tech geek you’ll splurge over Apple’s new iPhone. Spec wise its an absolute beast. Not too keen on the design but need to see good photos of it first to make up my mind.
its a true video iPod. Wide screen! No controls. Its done through proximity touching (motioning over the screen without actually touching it).
Its also a cell phone on steroids. Conference calling, video mail, wifi, bluetooth, GSM, quad band.
Touching screen is needed sometimes? (not verified)
Video mail. Look at all the mail (voice, text, video, photo) you received and choose which one you want to listen to, watch, etc. rather than waiting to listen to them in order.
[quote]PGA wrote:
I hear the breaks on the train squeaking…5 hours of battery life as phone/pda/iPod. 16 hours as an iPod…
And the price…wait for it…wait…KAABOOM! TRAIN WRECK…! $599 (8gig) and $499 (4gig). Apple’s stock just dropped 98%![/quote]
Yeah that’s the discounted price with a 2yr contract. Both CinguAT&T and Apple need to make a buck. Remember when the POS Motorola razr came out? It was 500 with a new contract. Ugh I am dreading this thing coming out, endless calls of “you got the iphone? Dee dee dee. How come it’s so much money?” etc etc etc.
I’m just not all that sold (as I can see others on this thread are not either). Jobs (of course) hyped it to the nth degree as something that would transform telecommunications as we know it, but I just don’t see it.
Sure, the touch interface is pretty cool and I’m sure there is some nice synergy of the hardware manufacturer also handling the software (same as with Apple and their computers).
However, while the features are cool, I really don’t see this as any kind of quantum leap. Other phones play music. Other phones do Internet and contacts and such. So maybe it does a bunch of those things in a more innovative way… which is nice… but this is not game changing technology.
Sooooo… someone tell me again why this is so revolutionary and worth that ridiculous price tag?
[quote]Kuz wrote:
I’m just not all that sold (as I can see others on this thread are not either). Jobs (of course) hyped it to the nth degree as something that would transform telecommunications as we know it, but I just don’t see it.
Sure, the touch interface is pretty cool and I’m sure there is some nice synergy of the hardware manufacturer also handling the software (same as with Apple and their computers).
However, while the features are cool, I really don’t see this as any kind of quantum leap. Other phones play music. Other phones do Internet and contacts and such. So maybe it does a bunch of those things in a more innovative way… which is nice… but this is not game changing technology.
Sooooo… someone tell me again why this is so revolutionary and worth that ridiculous price tag?[/quote]
It would truly only be revolutionary if it cost no more than a PSP and that screen widened to at least 7".
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Kuz wrote:
I’m just not all that sold (as I can see others on this thread are not either). Jobs (of course) hyped it to the nth degree as something that would transform telecommunications as we know it, but I just don’t see it.
Sure, the touch interface is pretty cool and I’m sure there is some nice synergy of the hardware manufacturer also handling the software (same as with Apple and their computers).
However, while the features are cool, I really don’t see this as any kind of quantum leap. Other phones play music. Other phones do Internet and contacts and such. So maybe it does a bunch of those things in a more innovative way… which is nice… but this is not game changing technology.
Sooooo… someone tell me again why this is so revolutionary and worth that ridiculous price tag?
It would truly only be revolutionary if it cost no more than a PSP and that screen widened to at least 7".[/quote]
But then how would all of the Mac-addicts feel smug and superior if that happened? Because you obviously need to pay a lot more for something to be any good…