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Safari looks good. Multitouch looks good. Im yet to find a fault looking that the demos on the site. Basically in every way it blows away other phones.

DukeofNuke wrote:

ScifiterX wrote:

Newton reborn √
Apple Cell √
Apple tablet √
Widescreen iPod √
Beatles √

Beatles!? WHERE!?!?

Jobs demonstrated the iPhone using Beatles music, so one can only assume...

BTW, I think the new iPhone looks hideous. I prefer the version with the rotary dial instead.

I really hope it eats up Martha.

The Godfather wrote:

that's really expensive too

That was my first thought, then I reminded myself that it is more than just a cell phone.  The capabilities are worth it - and it runs OS X.

I think I must be one of the lucky few, because my husband's company is looking to renew their cell phone contract which expires in July .... needless to say I'll be encouraging them to look VERY closely at Cingular. 

Apple is very smart.  More and more people are "switching", but there are those who are still dead-set on M$.  I think people will buy and use the iPhone, like they did the iPod, and then realizing it runs OS X, they won't be so intimidated.  Apple will be converting a lot of people.

If I were Bill or a top exec at M$, I'd be sweatin' it.

jayster wrote:

-robco

I dont think its targeted at the corprate users. This is a smart phone for consumers.

Most home consumers don't want or need an expensive smart phone.

It would be stupid not to try to tap the corporate market. They already have rudimentary Exchange support in Mail.app. I'm sure they could implement the rest pretty easily.

So you want them to make the exact same product minus one feature just for you.

scottajronan wrote:

justG wrote:

Blandford Fly wrote:

Um, UK, when does it hit the UK?

Q4 '07, I believe.

Where did you hear the UK in the fourth quarter of 2007?

"10:47 am    Europe by Cal4 this year"

http://www.macrumors.com/events/mwsf2007.html

I think you can interface with Exchange using IMAP.  In fact, that's how my email is set up in Mail.app in an office using Exchange Server.

mo' ron wrote:

Mr. T wrote:

I think the song navigation could've been done a bit better.  I think it should be sorta like a virtual thumbstick.  In other words, you press your thumb on the screen, slide it in a particular direction, and the list (or map, etc) begins to scroll in that direction.  The speed of the scrolling is proportional to the distance you slide your thumb from the point of origin.

Apple takes more of a direct manipulation approach, where you "grab" the list and "throw" it in a particular direction.  The problem is it requires multiple throws to scroll through a long list.

EDIT:  This is still the most amazing freak'n gadget I've ever seen.

I'm guessing you can slide your finger along the side like a typical scrolling list.

I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing, but a better analogy would be FireFox's autoscroll feature (hit the middle mouse button in FireFox).  Obviously, the added complexity of performing this with a moues means it won't feel nearly as natural as simply sliding your thumb on the iPhone, so you'll have to use your imagination.

Yeah, your not kidding. OS X will be fixed this time, for sure and for certain. (The lack of a Leopard preview basically confirms this)

This is gona win cause of the OS X tech behind it. Users, gadget geeks and admins will all want it. The UI appears to be gold and they certainly haven't skimped on any of it.

EDIT: Seen on TV again. Much longer showing how it works, a lot of in Keynote footage and the footage from the website. The flicking to scroll is obvious. It looks ok, but won't know till ya try it. Seems like a variant on accelerated scrolling so yeah.

The news presenter quipped at the end that you'd probably need a degree to operate it. From what I've seen, it seems more intuitive than most mobile phone interfaces and next gen compared to the 'smart' phones.

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I haven' been able to watch the introduction yet due to the fact that there is so much interest in it the server tells me to try again later. I have gone through the iPhone website a couple of times and I have to say I'm ditching my blackberry and going for the iPhone. With the email and the connectivity with the mac I have to do it.
When they say that it runs OS X I don't know what they mean by this. It has to be a very stripped down version in order to run on the limited amount memory. The widgets look great I hope we can install third party apps like the terminal shell.
I am surprised that there isn't any discriptions of the calender app. I see a Notes widget on the main screen but what about tasks? Will they be included in the email app as they are going to be in Leopard? On the site for email it stats will work with any IMAP or POP3 accounts. So why are they touting the yahoo mail so much is there more to the yahoo account than just push mail?
I do really need to find out more about this phone. When typing out an SMS message if you turn the phone does the qwerty keyboard get larger? Or does landscape mode only work for certain apps? There are so many more questions that I have but if none of them get answered I'm still going to be in line the day it comes out at the cingular store switching from t-mobile and having my blackberry go on ebay unlocked.

Why cingular.  They are the number one most crappy Provider in the United States.  I know it won't happen but I wish they would come out with a CDMA Version.

Steyr AUG wrote:

It will be interesting what people think of a phone with no real buttons when they actually use it for an extended period of time.

Indeed.  Kind of like when people used computers without punch-cards for the first time.....