The iPhone....

[drhayden1]

Big news today at Macworld. After years of anticipation, speculation, and rumors, Apple has announced the iPhone! Here are some of the features:

11.6 mm (thickness)
3.5 in. (width)
Runs Mac OS X (access to Safari Web browser)
Touchscreen display with multi-touch support
2 megapixel camera
8 GB storage
Bluetooth with EDR and also WiFi
Quadband GSM radio with EDGE
EDGE or WiFi, the phone switches to WiFi when detected
Google Maps: Satellite directions, traffic monitoring, and normal maps.
Random access voicemail
Widgets: Weather and stocks
Photo album lets you scroll through images with your finger and you can zoom in/out by “squeezing” or “pinching” the screen with two fingers.
The orientation of the screen (landscape or portrait) will automatically rotate based upon the orientation of the device itself.
One of my favorite features is the quick switching. While listening to your music using the iPod application on your iPhone, the phone rings.  As the phone call comes in, the music fades out, and the screen changes allowing you to answer.  While on the phone, you can even pull up photos to send in an email, and browse the web.  After you end the call,  the iPod continues playing where you left off. Amazing!

Also on stage with Steve Jobs was Jerry Yang of Yahoo and Eric Schmidt of Google.  A big part of this iPhone is the use of some of Google’s services, like the maps for satellite directions, and traffic. Yahoo is involved by offering free push IMAP email for all of the customers.

Now for the price: The 4GB model will be $499 and the 8GB model will be $599. They’ll start shipping in June! Note: As Nate the Great mentions below, it does require a 2-year contract.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/apple-iphone-interfacemusic-227463.php

Removed iPhone Pic....Was Wrong...Thanks Mac
Correct iPhone Pic In Post Below

[DavidR]

Battery life is a killer, up to 5 hours, I think they need to get that up to at least 10 hours or you won't last a day with a combo tunes and phone while your out all day.

At just 5 hours I hope you don't want to use the phone, when you have been thrashing the battery with some tunes.

[.: Mac :.]

THat is not a picture of the iPhone. The iPhone has no keypad FYI

5 Hour battery life while playing audio only / talking on the phone. if you are not using it (like its in your pocket) the battery life is longer

[.: Mac :.]

you can find an actual picture along with lots more info on the iPhone here:
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/01/09/iphone/index.php

[DavidR]

5 Hour battery life while playing audio only / talking on the phone. if you are not using it (like its in your pocket) the battery life is longer

Yes, but the whole idea of having a phone incorporating a music player is to play music otherwise there is no pint in having that capability. If you use it extensively for what it is designed to play music (even with only 4 GB of music), when you come to need your phone you could find your screwed, sorry about getting technical

The other thing I think Apple are having two bites at the apple cherry, excuse the pun, as you probably can't transfer the iPod iTunes to your phone you will have to buy them all over again. Isn't this what gets you steamed, Fair Play was it ?

I haven't seen anything about being able to transfer existing iTunes to the iPhone.

[.: Mac :.]

David I agree on the battery life that 5 hours is too short.

Also no you do not have to buy the music again. You are allowed to transfer any music/music video/movie you purchased from the iTunes Store to an UNLIMITED number of iPods or iPhones. The only thing FairPlay limits is the number of Computers that can be authorized to play the content 

[.: Mac :.]

I just watched the keynote video at:
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/j47d52oo/event/

and he said you can playback music for 16 hours on a single charge and it goes to a low power mode when not being used so unless you are watching videos all the time the battery will last all day.

I will believe it when i hear from people who have them which will be after June (dosent ship till june) 

[drhayden1]

Here Mac

[por100pre1]

Can I make phone calls with that? LOL, just kidding. 

[justin1278]

The iPhone looks really cool, but I cannot see myself spending $500-$600 for a mobile phone

[.: Mac :.]

Neither can I 

[Marc57]

Here's something to Check out.

Cisco sues Apple over iPhone trademark

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cisco11jan11,0,5948752.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[Hannu]

Can I make phone calls with that? LOL, just kidding. 

LOL  That was my first thought when I saw it first time 

[bob3160]

Here's something to Check out.

Cisco sues Apple over iPhone trademark

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cisco11jan11,0,5948752.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Why didn't Apple work out the legalities of using Cisco's iPhone trademark before going through the Macworld song and dance?

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4269&tag=nl.e589

Someone surely goofed on this one. 

[.: Mac :.]

Bob, apple tried to get cisco's blessing for a long time and since they would not agree to apple's terms Apple released it anyway (Steve always gets his way and if he doesnt he will do it anyway regardless of what law it breaks)