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iPhone Release Date Is June 29
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."
My xv6700 can already play mp3s, browse Google maps, take notes, record videos, etc. And it can do things that the iPhone can't: run custom apps, like Putty, so I can ssh into Linux boxes at work or at home. The iPhone may be better at some of these things. Although Apple-designed user interfaces aren't all that they're cracked up to be, I can easily imagine a UI that beats Windows Mobile on a phone.
Honestly though, with laptops at $500 nowadays, there isn't much reason for these kinds of devices. The level of hype about the iPhone device is hugely overblown, more than for most Mac products.
Not to mention that its another thing for the Apple Trend Freaks to flaunt. I might actually nuke the Tekserve building if this happens.
Hate to say it, since their ipod image worked so well, but do you think its time for a change, Mac?
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Seriously, if you want to be innovative, don't just create the next evolution of the iPod (i.e. ipod with touch screen, internet and phone, as well as internet widgets most browsers can get quite easily). I know its very different from the pod...but in many ways most of my friend's newer pods are different from my own (no color vs. color, images, movies, downloadable games...).
But calling it the "iPhone" just points out that its a contuation of your evolutionary design. Except in this case, anyone who owns a blackberry and a video iPod doesn't honestly need such a thing unless they don't want two of their four pockets loaded.
Honestly, average number of pockets in a suit and dress pants or cargo pants: 7. Include a vest with the cargo pants and I can roll that up to about 14 pockets. Assuming you carry your keys and wallet, that leaves room for your napkin, i-pod, cell phone, a random 3 ft chord (lets just say ethernet), blackberry and deck of Magic: The Gathering.
We don't need all these features crammed into one gadget. But an average RAZR costs about $15+decent plan, and an average older gen video i-pod costs like $200. Why pay $500, the price of both (easily), for a SINGLE gadget? When it breaks, there goes $500. As opposed to when my phone wears out (which will, assuming the shelf life of both devices are the same, take 2x+ as long as I'm not using my phone for MP3s or movies) and I have to buy another...
Of course there's the "but you can't surf the internet on the go". Besides my laptop, I have a DS, which not only plays MP3s, uses Skype, Firefox, AIM, IRC, a word processor, touch screens and plays videos, but STILL costs less than (including all the add-ons) the iphone AND plays DS games.
Plus when it breaks, I only have to pay $50 for Nintendo to repair it in a week (I know, they don't legally repair machines if you supe them up with all those 3rd party apps, but my friends have proven otherwise since they usually don't even look at software when you send them your hardware issued device).
And hell, the DS is a bloody children's toy. Stop trying to look so sophisticated with your nifty Phone, Apple.
On the other hand...
If you included a built in hi-def projector, projector keyboard that actually worked well, microthin mouse had global free satellite wifi, had half a terrabyte of space (plus slots for extra storage), and dropped the "i" (I'd call the the "Litmus" myself), keeping the same price, I'd be interested. In fact, I'd get it just for the projector.
But no. You gave us Video iPod + Phone + Blackberry.
Or just "Nintendo DS" + $200 + AT&T account - DS games and running
Ginga no Rekshiya Mata Each page.
Seriously, the actual physical article couldn't matter less to me. In my life, I've only seen 6 physical Apple products: a IIe, something unidentified in about 1988, an unidentified notebook, and 3 iPods, all broken. So, fangirls, rave all you like about this worldwide phenomenon, but be sure to let me know when it's come close to being tangible and not just an outcrop of the cult of celebrity.