[nGage]

I'm surprised no one has said "No GPS!".

[nGage]

I'm surprised no one has said "No GPS!".

[alese]

It looks like typical Apple to me.
Nice design, beautifull and (I guess) functionall interface, everything nicely integrated (browser, iPod...) and also some nice HW specs (storage, touch screen...)
But it's also typically expensive and lacking in some at least for me important areas. It lacks 3G (UMTS) for one, and that is a really big omission for a device coming in Summer 2007. Couple that with no expansion slot, apparent lack of stylus (I like to jot stuff down) and Apple like "integration" with it's own multimedia formats and at least for me it's not as interesting as it looks at first look.

Don't get me wrong, I hope it will force M$ and HTC to innovate more, and I would love to have a proper Browser and an interface like this on my mobile device...

[Marcel_Proust]

Originally Posted by huangzhinong

it uses OS x, but it will never be full os. There is no possiblity that this device has more than 1gb ROM. If you play with linux a little bit, the most stripped linux can be only 100mb, so I believe this OS is almost a highly stripped os x, which means installing any third party applications will need install a lot of libraries at the same time.

I didn't see any world/excel/powerpoint icons on the interface. what's the problem?

ahem.....you know who makes those programs...i think this company up in redmond or somewhere?
apple is trying to transition to it's own. keynote is excellent, much better than powerpoint, and new version is coming out. apparently there's a new spreadsheet as well, but they didn't want to announce everything today.

[huangzhinong]

Originally Posted by nGage

I'm surprised no one has said "No GPS!".

That's actually I want to mention. No GPS, both hardware and software. I didn't find many GPS solutions for Mac at all, let alone iphone. I will be very surprised if Tomtom has a iphone version.

[UCCOFFEE]

by looking at the spec, what do you guys think is missing from the iPhone?

the only thing I m thinking of is the auto / manual focus camera.

[huangzhinong]

Originally Posted by uccoffee

by looking at the spec, what do you guys think is missing from the iPhone?

the only thing I m thinking of is the auto / manual focus camera.

It does have 2mb camera. Almost all phone cameras are a piece of junk, so I don't care.

I don't think I will get this device since keyboard is very important to me, I hope iphone can bring some new innovations in ppc phone world.

[Jonathan1]

I'd say there is a 100% certainty that this thing will sync out of the box with Outlook since iTunes 7 and I think 8 already does this....one way of course.

As for the device. I don't use Cingular so I'm SOL unless I want to give up my first born for one of these things without the contract which I would be willing to do if I had a first born. :P

Seriously though the big thing I'm interested in seeing is how difficult is it to migrate apps over to this thing. I HAVE to imagine the API's are very different. Heck does the thing even support 3rd party apps? Inquiring minds wanna know.

[JesterMania]

Originally Posted by huangzhinong

it uses OS x, but it will never be full os. There is no possiblity that this device has more than 1gb ROM. If you play with linux a little bit, the most stripped linux can be only 100mb, so I believe this OS is almost a highly stripped os x, which means installing any third party applications will need install a lot of libraries at the same time.

Maybe I led some people to misunderstand but I didn't necessarily mean taking the current off-the-shelf OS X software and installing them on the iPhone. Like you implied, having a 1GB+ OS on a phone seems a little impractical :lol: . I was implying that hopefully the iPhone-version of OS X will contain enough power to write some pretty cool apps. WM compared to XP is severely gimped, so i hope iPhone OS X will not be as much. Of course, there is the possibility that Apple will not allow/support 3rd-party apps on the device but that'd be pretty silly of them IMO. From some of the screenshots, the iPhone appears to have a version of a Dashboard-type app installed so the least Apple can do is allow people to make "iPhone Dashboard widgets" (mass speculation there hehe).

Oh, and I wouldn't worry about the missing UMTS/HSDPA support either. I think Apple is just testing the market (probably in North America primarily). If this product is a hit, there's no reason not to make a UMTS version (possibly as a 2nd iPhone revision) to support Europe and 3G carriers worldwide. Also, since this product has a BT interface, GPS support shouldn't be a problem unless as mentioned above, Apple somehow restricts 3rd-party app development.

[kiwi]

I was kind of meaning that consumers are very visual beasts.. go with the herd etc.

at least the 6mth+ lead time means I can enjoy my Treo 750v ;-)

[saru83]

as much as i'm into WM, i just cant resist this phone, its no brainier.. although lack of 3G is a lil disappointing, but anyway I WANT ONE :twisted: