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iPhone Release Date Is June 29

Posted by kdawson on from the lines-form-now dept.

willith writes "Apple has placed three iPhone commercials on their Web site today, and each ends with a tag: 'Coming June 29.' This puts to rest the question of when the thing will hit the streets, but there are still worries about allocation — AppleInsider is reporting that the supplies at Cingular/AT&T stores may be relatively tight." And some fanatic sites are already parsing the ads for such enigmas as the "mystery app."

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  1. I'd give this thing at least 6 months in the wild by drsmithy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The two potentially big problems with it I see are:

    1. Lack of tactile feedback in the UI. I.e. you have to look at it and concentrate on the UI to use it.
    2. The fragility of the touch screen.

  2. Re:I'd give this thing at least 6 months in the wi by furball · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I disagree about the fragility of the touch screen. If children's devices (Nintendo DS) can have a touch screen, I don't see why adult devices should be concerned about the fragility of such a thing.

    As for the tactile feedback, I think you're underestimating the UI mechanisms used to use the device. The most pressing activity on a phone is dialing. If you can solve the ease of dialing issue, you can make everything much easier. If you look at the demo of the Google map, you'll see what I'm talking about. It makes dialing easy. No current phone does this right now. None.

    About the only way this could get easier is if they start scanning your voice mail for phone numbers to associate with the visual voice mail .... hold on. I need to go write a business plan.