Comments on: Thoughts on the iPhone

By: Mario

Mario — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 02:47:12 +0000

By the time this thing is launched in Asia it will be an outdated machine. The other players on the market just waited for the first one to launch a touch screen only based machine, slik look and some good marketing potential and so to open their way to launch their own machines. Let do the other the trick and walk away with it. I’ve seen already some sleek looking machines out there on the net and it would surprise me to see Iphone look alikes in a very short time (Bang & Olufsen maybe?) but with much better specs as the Iphone. You must have a loose wire in your mind to spend so much money on the IPhone with such a limited range of facilities. An eye candy it is however.

By: Webreakstuff » iPhone, on the thin line between love and hate

Webreakstuff » iPhone, on the thin line between love and hate — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:36:02 +0000

[...] Like many others, I did a post about the iPhone after the Macworld Keynote. Why? Because I was excited about the possibilities a device like the iPhone could bring, particularly when coming from a company I share so many values with, Apple. After reading through everything that’s been said and written, however, I’m not as excited as I was, the reasons being outlined below. [...]

By: Paul Browne - Technology in Plain English

Paul Browne - Technology in Plain English — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:26:27 +0000

Not so much excited about the iPhone , as to the reaction of the other handset manufacturers – the phone market is going to be a different place in 9 months time when this reaches us (in Ireland).

I wonder what Nokia is going to come up with in response …

Paul

By: PELF

PELF — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:05:48 +0000

Ok, the phone is really quite impressive as far as the interface is concerned, but personally i think they aimed the wrong way. They sould be targeting the critical mass of mobile users, and they’d do exactly that with a small (think nano small) light, usable and cheap mobile phone.

Picture your ipod nano with a keypad, gsm and sms capabilities, for something like 300$. I would buy it sooo much! ;)

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:21:33 +0000

Ah, just saw the article where it says no 3rd party apps. That *is* silly.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:15:21 +0000

We’re still in the “information gathering” phase for this device and it’s prototypes, but I thought I heard that the thing ran OS X?!

If that’s so, isn’t Apple giving us a mobile platform with BSD, Cocoa, Obj C, etc…?

By: dandan

dandan — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:05:57 +0000

I agree – the battery life is way too short.

I don’t think it’s 3g either?!

By: Matt Robin

Matt Robin — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:04:32 +0000

My current phone, the very reasonable Sony Ericsson K750i is close to the end of it’s life and I’m about to replace it…I was considering the Sony Ericsson P990i…but then this news has sort of changed things a bit.
I want one..right now, OH YES, but the trouble is that it probably won’t be launched here in the UK until the 3rd Quarter 2007…(which seems like AAAAaaaagggGGGGesss away). I might just groan like an oversized child until I get my hands on one then! Also – no news yet which companies will supply the iPhone in the UK…and that’s going to be a factor too.

By: TIago Macedo

TIago Macedo — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:59:42 +0000

Without the ability to run user-developed applications, Apple seems to have missed a bit. This way it’s only targeting corporate users.