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Apple iPhone - To Be, or Not to Be?
An anonymous reader writes "With the Apple WWDC looming on Monday, the internet once again beats itself silly over what Steve Jobs has in store. At the most fanciful end of the scale, there's talk of the Apple iPhone, to which CNET says, 'keep on dreaming', and Gizmodo says, 'no visible evidence'. The only solid evidence of an iPhone, beyond the endless mocked-up images, is the discovery of hidden phone-related code in a recent iPod updater. Macrumors has some info on what the keynote may contain -- and there's no mention of an iPhone. So, as the rumor mill continues to grind over the weekend, let the predictions begin. Is there an Apple iPhone, or is there not?"
The only kind of i-Phone that I would like, would have the user use the click wheel like one of those turn dials phones that proceeded touch tone. That would be cool!
I'll lay odds that the first iPhone will be kinda clunky anyways. I'll wait for the iPhone Nano (maybe even the alumninum iPhone Nano).
Well, maybe if they make it the same shade of off-white as my David Hockney sculpture and make the little Apple logo a bit more silver, I might think about it...
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
... I would randomy put in things like 'phone related code'. Imagine the fun of sitting back and seeing what rumors would start.
Dude, forget about turn signals. Sounds like you'd be better off just turning on your hazard lights.
I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.
My phone plays music, and it's not even DRM protected:
:P
Dial:
6,5,4,5,6,6,6
5,5,5...6,6,6
6,5,4,5,6,6,6,6,5,5,6,5,4
(By the way, I am not responsible for any long distance or airtime charges you may incur)
welcome our speculation overlords!!
Got MILF? It does a body good!
"I felt a great disturbance in this pointless discussion, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
Hacker1: Something WAS in the iPod. The code leads off in this direction.
Hacker2: [holding up a print-out of a code] "Look, sir: iPhone!
Apple lawyer: Don't act so surprised, your highness. You weren't on any mercy mission this time. Several transmissions about iPhone were beamed to this site by Apple workers. I want to know what happened to the plans they sent you.
Internet Journalist: I don't know what you're talking about. I am a member of the Journalist Union on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan...
Apple lawyer: You are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor! Take her away!
and last, but not least:
Chief Engineer: It seems like you've managed to cut down our usage of thermal paste.
Engineer: Maybe you would like it back in your cell, your highness?
Are they making a phone or a dildo?
Putting the 33k in G33k.
to enforce monopolies on ringtones, wallpapers,
Hold on. You say that like it's a bad thing. Personally, I feel that anybody who wants a custom ringtone should have to pay a visit to one single corporate office building in Hoboken, New Jersey, and bring with them $70.86 in cash (exact change required) to acquire a ring tone different from a benign default. And at that building, they should have to stand in a long line and endure the company of dozens of the same kind of repulsive person as themself while waiting to pay.
It's gotten so I am tempted these days to come up with some sort of a PIC microcontroller design that I can build into a cheap toy cellphone that will play back really repulsive and/or offensive 'ringtones.' So I can echo back a 'mating call' of sorts to the repulsive noises real phones are making. Maybe something that samples and blatts back a bad echo of the phone ring just 'experienced'
That or a cellphone jammer; built into a device that a 'laughing man' ringtone as it snips the wireless wire on tard-the-jabbermouth.