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31st Jan '07 Wed, 12:36
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At long last, it is here. The iPhone. While many recent rumors pointed to the announcement of Apple's phone + iPod combination at this year's Macworld Expo Keynote, no one anticipated the product in question would be this revolutionary. With iPhone, Apple has without question dropped a bomb on the entire smartphone industry. Nothing out there compares with what was shown today.
Hardware Features
3.5" Widescreen touch-sensitive display
11.6 mm thin
2 megapixel camera
Proximity sensor, accelerometer, and ambient light sensors
Quad-band GSM/EDGE + WiFI + Bluetooth 2.0
Battery Life: 16 hours audio, 5 hour talk/video/browse time
Software Features
Runs version of OSX. "Full desktop-class applications"
Conference call support with up to 3 participants
Multiple SMS session support (iChat-like interface)
Safari: first fully useable HTML browser on a phone
"Coolest photo management app ever"
Widget support
Yahoo IMAP mail
Google Maps (with satellite image) integration
The iPhone will be available in two versions: a 4GB unit for $499 and an 8GB unit for $599, both with a 2 year Cingular contract. The unit will debut in the US in June, Europe in Q4 2007, and Asia in 2008.
Watching the Steve demo this unit during the keynote, we were all struck with the sensation that what we were watching was some mocked-up demonstration of what technology would be like in some distant future - some sort of preview that was so impressive as to seem almost fake. Too good. Unrealistic. Yet, this is the product Apple is bringing to market. We really do agree with Steve Jobs in his belief that, like the Macintosh back in 1984 and the iPod back in 2001, what we have here is a landmark product that will send shockwaves through the industry.
See the keynote photo gallery and Apple's QuickTime stream of the event itself to really experience this amazing, new device.
UPDATE: Our sources indicate that the iPhone is based on a Samsung ARM CPU core along with a DSP for certain real-time effects. The unit apparently runs Darwin, the OS X core, and a subset of other portions of OS X, compiled for the ARM processor. The iPhone does not run a full implementation of OS X.
At long last, it is here. The iPhone. While many recent rumors pointed to the announcement of Apple's phone + iPod combination at this year's Macworld Expo Keynote, no one anticipated the product in question would be this revolutionary. With iPhone, Apple has without question dropped a bomb on the entire smartphone industry. Nothing out there compares with what was shown today.
Hardware Features
3.5" Widescreen touch-sensitive display
11.6 mm thin
2 megapixel camera
Proximity sensor, accelerometer, and ambient light sensors
Quad-band GSM/EDGE + WiFI + Bluetooth 2.0
Battery Life: 16 hours audio, 5 hour talk/video/browse time
Software Features
Runs version of OSX. "Full desktop-class applications"
Conference call support with up to 3 participants
Multiple SMS session support (iChat-like interface)
Safari: first fully useable HTML browser on a phone
"Coolest photo management app ever"
Widget support
Yahoo IMAP mail
Google Maps (with satellite image) integration
The iPhone will be available in two versions: a 4GB unit for $499 and an 8GB unit for $599, both with a 2 year Cingular contract. The unit will debut in the US in June, Europe in Q4 2007, and Asia in 2008.
Watching the Steve demo this unit during the keynote, we were all struck with the sensation that what we were watching was some mocked-up demonstration of what technology would be like in some distant future - some sort of preview that was so impressive as to seem almost fake. Too good. Unrealistic. Yet, this is the product Apple is bringing to market. We really do agree with Steve Jobs in his belief that, like the Macintosh back in 1984 and the iPod back in 2001, what we have here is a landmark product that will send shockwaves through the industry.
See the keynote photo gallery and Apple's QuickTime stream of the event itself to really experience this amazing, new device.
UPDATE: Our sources indicate that the iPhone is based on a Samsung ARM CPU core along with a DSP for certain real-time effects. The unit apparently runs Darwin, the OS X core, and a subset of other portions of OS X, compiled for the ARM processor. The iPhone does not run a full implementation of OS X.