Today, following Steve Jobs presentation during Mac World 2007, all technical blogs were speaking about the long expected Apple iPhone.
Will this iPhone be so different than all others ?
Will Apple have a similar success like with iPods ?
Will it be THE new must to have gimick ?
What do you think ?
A Quick Overview
- 3.5 inches, 480×320 display
- Input method : multi-touch
- OS : Mac OS X "slim version"
- Storage 4 or 8 GB
- WAN : Quad-Band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
- Wifi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.0
- Built-in camera 2.0 mega pixel
- Size : 115 x 61 x 11.6mm / Weight 135 grs
- Battery :Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing - Up to 16 hours Audio playback
Pros:
- All-in-One Ipod-Camera-Phone
- Wide 3.5'' screen
- Using fingers on screen instead of stylus is rather a good idea
- Great design… as usual
- Safari browser + widgets
- Rich text email client
- Predictive input keyboard
- Hard Disk 4 or 8 GB
- Automatic display configuration change (portrait to landscape)
- Video Player
Cons
- Not a smartphone, impossible to add software
- No memory extension slot
- Impossible to remove the battery (with so few autonomy is pity)
- Not UMTS nor HSPDA
- Price (499 or 599 USD for 2 year contract with the mobile network operator - USA)
- No wireless (wifi nor GPRS/EDGE) iTunes Store downloads
- No WiFi syncing to your host machine.
- No tactile feedback when strocking keyboard
- No MS Office, MS Exchange, Lotus Domino support
- Only available in 2007 Q3 in USA & 2008 in Europe & Asia.
Some links that speaks about the iPhone:
Some report from guys who could briefly play with it:
- Brian Lam Gizmodo
- David Pogue New York Times
Mac World 2007 Keynote and full technical specs
Latest News
CBS News iPhone demo via Presse-Citron
Now let's wait until the moment we will be able to play with a real one… and see if Steve Jobs was right or not when he said "Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone".
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