“The iPhone is everything I have been waiting for in a portable device (email, chat, internet, photos, music, camera); however, the thing I am least excited about is the cell phone feature,” Adam blogs via .Mac.
Adam writes, “Here is what troubles me. I find myself using a traditional phone less and less. All I really need is an internet connection, and I can communicate just fine with the entire world. I basically use Skype for calls, iChat for IMs, email for everything else. Who really needs a separate ‘phone line’ any more…just get me on the internet.”
“I would be happy having an iPhone without any cellular service. I do not want to pay $100/month (who knows how much it will really cost) to use this great new device,” Adam writes.
Full article here.
Okay, who else wants an “iPhone sans phone” and doesn’t want to wait until fall or whenever Apple decides to release it as the new iPod?
Me!
Me.
that’s actually not a bad point. Give me the internet and access and I’ll skype/IM/email whoever I want. c’mon Clearwire…take over.
I do
“I basically use Skype for calls, iChat for IMs, email for everything else.”
Of course, consider that (a) there’s no Skype for iPhone (no third-party support) and (b) no iChat for iPhone (remember that the demo used SMS-messaging). So you’d be stuck with e-mail.
That said, I do like the concept for the next iPod. Leave out the phone and just have music/movie player and Internet connectivity.
I want iPhone w/o the pod!
You may get hosed on the internet usage charges by Cingular. A monthly cell phone bill may be cheaper.
Yes but iChat will arrive for it, maybe even on launch and Skype is a matter of Apple enabling it. SJ said that they had not decided upon that as yet.
Me.
Use communication via internet more than any phones we have.
I want one.
I was thinking this the day after they announced – give me the iPhone with everything except the phone part.
1. Don’t need a cell phone
2. Don’t want to deal with Cingular/AT&T/Lucifer again
I will take two!
Just let me use VOIP.
Some peace and quiet when out of range is a benefit too!
This guy should get a life. Or does he never leave his desk? Try using Skype in a park or a taxi or at a client site, or on vacation, or at your Mum’s place, or in your garden or…
And I don’t know about you, but the voice quality on ANY of the IP telephony services that I have used (including Skype and Jajah) is so poor that i usually can’t wait to terminate the call. It reminds me of long distance calls before fibre optics. I spend half my call saying “sorry what was that?”. I prefer to pay for my calls…
I am using a Motorolla Razr, which has a user interface designed by a drunk chimpanzee. To say I hate it is an understatement. It never ceases to annoy. And on more than one occasion I have wanted to hurl it into the traffic.
Apple could make a killing with the same unit less the phone. Take out the phone and the price should drop. That way you have a choice iPhone or iPod. Many cell phone users have a contract that may lock them in for sometime before they can get the iPhone. But that will not stop them from getting the new iPod.
I’m with botox, I’d love to have the iphone without the ipod functions. If they created a model with everything but ipod functionality and reduced the price of it, I’m sure there would be a market for it.
Me I want a widescreen iDevice.
8 gigs in the phone please…. I have a 60 gig and that is not big enough.
I don’t know what I would do if I only had 8 gigs.
Steve hear my prayer and give be 100 gig widescreen, email, chat, picture and video capture iDevice………please
ME!!!
I thought I was the only one thinking this way. I see the iPhone as a way to finally not have to carry my PowerBook around with me. The feature I like the most is the portable web browser. The phone and iPod parts of it are ok if that is the only way it comes. But I would be perfectly happy with a $299 ultra Mac portable.
The possibilities for future configurations of the iPhone are nearly endless. The point is that the iPhone is a PLATFORM, capable of going where technology allows.
The same cannot be said of devices powered by WinCE, Palm or Symbian. They are mired in, and limited by, technology that is 20 years old. Linux has a better chance of keeping up with OSX (mobile) than these three do.
I think the future of cellular carriers, telecoms and cable providers is as internet access portals. All other value added features of these current business models, will transition to access devices and the internet.
With so much competition for internet users, the price of access (high speed) is going to drop like a rock.
in my opinion steve jobs did not show the intire iphone capabilities in public,guess we have to wait as we wait for the itv,i mean apple tv.
WE DO
Rob Enderle wants one
And even though he won’t admit it, I know Zune Tang wants one too!
If anything I am using a traditional phone more. Having to limit myself to a conversation via email, chat or somewhere where I had to be connected to the internet (to use skype) would properly suck. Trying to explain stuff over email or IM is just plain frustrating – the phone is much better.
What would be the point of having an iPhone without the phone, and without any of the services that you have to pay a subscription fee to use?
All you would have is an iPod, a camera (which wouldnt be as good as your average digicam) and a few apps, which would have such limited use because of the lack of internet.
I’ll have the iPhone, with everything included, thank you very much.
That is EXACTLY what I want. The iPhone will do me absolutely no good as long as it’s locked into Cingular since their great network doesn’t service my area. If it has WiFi and Apple certifies a VOIP client for it I’m good to go.
mobile video ichat = cool
Well, I think it would be great, but I just bought a new MacBook on Sunday, so I won’t have any cash available for an iPod for a few months.
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…duh…
on a handheld.
sans phone here too
I too have been waiting for a mobile internet connection. I have a Palm but have chosen not to get the wireless feature due to the price.
I hate using a cell phone and can’t wait to end each call.
While I’d love the internet connection I can’t imagine it’s going to be cheap and without the phone part. They’re too integrated.
Me! Ooh pick me teacher, please pick me!!
I’d be more than happy with an iPhone sans phone.
Perhaps a new product, called the iComm? Or just the new generation of iPod? After all it’s an iPOD, not an iJUKEBOX. You can put whatever you want on an iPod.
Like the iPhone without the iPhone?
Like the most revolutionary PDA in the industry?
Yeah, I’ll go for that! And people from outside the USA will go for it, I’m sure. My dad (who lives overseas) saw the iPhone, and the first thing he said is “too bad it’s only for the US market. I could do with one of those without the phone”.
That’s a pretty big statement, I’d say.
Me, I’ll take two.
Yeah Skype!!! bla bla bla…
…please people Skype SUCKS!… that is unless you like shitty static ridden calls with a 2 second delay, I wont even get into the Skype Video experience!…. using Skype makes a walkie talkies sound like a real face to face conversation…
Get s clue Skype fanboys just cuz its free does NOT make is good!
The moment I heard the iPhone announcement, I said to myself I would like the device without the cell phone. I’m glad I’m not the only one thinking the same thing!
Me! I like having a POS phone, I don’t want to start caring about my phone, but a portable internet device is fantastic. Let us buy the iPhone and make the service optional.
Yes please! … also let me buy a Lear Jet so I can watch in flight movies and listen to XM radio!!!!
DUMB ASSES!!!
I want the iPhone SANS iPOD!!!!!
I already have an iPod. I just want an Apple Powered Smart phone with multi touch interface!!
ANYONE ELSE???
Me, it would be as great as watching my VHS tapes on my new plasma HDTV.
I’d love an iPhone without the cellular radio. But as other’s have said, the iPhone is a closed system and it would need to be opened up.
Personally, the fact that Apple won’t allow third-party software is what may hold me back from purchasing one.
Just a little bit touchy are we?
The iPhone doesn’t suit me as a phone – who wants to take a £350 phone out on the piss on a friday night? But an iPhone without the phone but with WiFi internet connection and a HDD would be brilliant. As a photographer I could transfer files to it and even view them – OSX has inbuilt support for RAW. This device then becomes more of a laptop replacement than an iPod. I’d then also have a shitty phone with a crap UI for actually making phone calls. An iPhone Nano with better UI but minus video iPod features could also find its way into my pocket…
Me too! Hate cell phone companies, give me internet connection, and I’m okay…
We’ll just have to wait. I am very anxious to see the future applications of the multi-touch tech. I think that the implications may be huge.
don’t want the iPod, have one already. would like iPhone sans iPod.
Count me in!
I want a 100-120 gb iPhone sans the phone.
The iPhone without the phone? Sounds like the first viable replacement I’ve seen for my Newton.
I’m in!!
Count me in !
This whole haggle about 2 year contracts and provider binding pissed me off since the slide showed up on the keynote.
I would be very happy with a solution that acts like the PSP (being able to connect to a WAP), like an iPod (play music and video) and a Newton or Palm (do all the rest.)
$ 399… sold
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I need cellphone with my iPhone. Of course for you Adam, nobody wants to hear your scratchy voice.
“Yes but iChat will arrive for it, maybe even on launch and Skype is a matter of Apple enabling it.”
And we’ve been waiting how long for a spreadsheet in iWork?
I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for software from Apple.
I want the wide-screen iPod. I’ve been all set to buy one since Christmas, but I’m not buying until they go wide-screen.
Mobile phones are not very useful for me. Neither is being microwaved by Clearwire. We should have much better technology by now -ideally something that is biologically compatible.
Video iPod with at least 16 GB of flash RAM and 10 hours battery life. If they put a hard drive in it, I’m guessing the battery life will — how they say — suck :o)
Clearwire will not take over because they don’t want you using Internet communications (other than thiers I guess) on your Internet connection. Clearwire “manages” their network and specifically blocks ports needed to iniate AV chats with iChat. I had to threaten cancellation before they finally decide to allow acces to those ports on my connection. They said they block 5060 and 5061, and apprently call them the “VoIP” ports. So, my iChat AV did not work out-of-the-box, becasue of Clearwire.
I just want a video ipod without the phone. It must also have at least an 80GB HD
I have heard that this product may be coming, and it sounds to me like it might be the worlds best PDA, or a mini-mini-Mac.
I agree, the part I care the least about is the phone.
I would buy one without phone features for sure. So would many parents who will shell out for ipods but not cell phones because of the expensive monthly charges.
I’ve been saying that I want an iPhone w/out the phone since Macworld – I’d buy one in a heart beat!
Uh, don’t use the phone feature, Newton.
I need one to call the office supply depot near here and order more chairs
Keep the phone. Cingular’s reception isn’t any more reliable than Verizon’s, which sucks.
What I really want is the ability to use the iPhone as a cellular modem anywhere there’s a signal. When the iPhone can do that, I’ll take one.
YUP!
Just give me an iPhone with a “Offline” button.
iPhone without the phone would be AWESOME! I might even BUY one but not the current one. TOO much money and I already have a pay as you go Virgin mobile that I love.
The cell phone could remain as an option, but I think we’re all pretty much hip, by now, to the fact that the real functionality of the iPhone in now way emphasizes the phone part – its just kind of there. But hey, some people need a cell phone too, so leave it in there, just don’t make me have to get into this cell phone war, and mostly because I only have one choice whether I like it or not, and its not Cingular/ATT.
Personally I don’t give two monkey tits about the phone – leave it in there and if I can ever use it great, but I don’t want to have to get new cell service at this point (even if I did have a choice) just to get the iPhone. A much better name for the iPhone would have been, of all the ironic things, iLife. Oh well, leave it to cellular service providers to screw up a good thing.
I seldom answer calls when listening to my iPod, anyway. But, hey, I’ll take an iPhone without the cell phone feature but with multi-protocol wireless access instead, so I can also stream Internet radio on the go. For calls, I’d just use SkypeIn/SkypeOut as needed.
Who needs Cingular?
I’m surprised by people dumping on Skype. The sound is clear and sharp as long as the calls are Skype to Skype. If they are from Skype to a traditional house phone then yes, the quality is poor.
I would also love an iPhone without the phone. I have a cell phone for calls. Let me do WiFi and Bluetooth to my phone when needed. Skype or other VOIP when I’m on WiFi would be nice.
A pocket PC? Hell yeah!
I want an EV-DO version. Not that Sprint is all that great, but I discarded AT&T Wireless a long time ago and don’t want to go back.
dogfriend: I used to work for AT&T (later Lucifer, er Lucent technologies)
What a sucky company all around. The management was completely redneck, white trash. It sounded so prestigious when I told people I worked for AT&T. But, everyone was miserable and at least mildly retarded. I must have been too, because I stayed there way too long before I said, “screw this!”
I, too, don’t want to pay for cellular service when I can use Skype on my computer. I hope there’s a phoneless option. It would suck to have to pay monthly to have the newest iPod/mobile Mac. BTW, I say it’s a mobile Mac because it is the future of computing, along with laptops and/or tablets.
I want it for email, surfing, watching videos, playing music, viewing pictures, iCal, and hopefully for IM, but not for making calls.
While I eagerly await both the iPhone and a new iPod with these features, one might as well get a phone tossed in the deal, as some kind of wireless connection service is going to be needed to provide internet access when one is out of range of 802.11x services.
I have long wanted a convergence device of this type, but I will probably wait for a second generation product with better performance/capacity before jumping on board. I am much more likely to buy the iPod version first.
Typhoon –
At least you were able to escape – the company I work for supplies product to them – they have earned the nickname Lucifer….
I want a satellite phone, Apple.
The answer is a pay-as-you-go phone option. Voice calls charged at a premium but no fixed-term contract. Along with the device being enabled for wireless internet connection whenever its in range of a hotspot. That way anyone can own an iPhone and enjoy all its features without having the burden of an unwanted and largely unused expensive monthly contract.
This must be an issue for Apple as they’ll count themselves out of a massive market-sector for the iPhone with this contract attached to it as a condition of hardware ownership – and I expect Cingular will be very twitchy about allowing Skype-type services.
I would really like Apple to release a mobile version of OSX that can be installed on any current “Smartphone”. While I like my Blackjack, it runs Windows Mobile, and it shows. Occasional freezes, alarm clock is unreliable…etc.
Me…
removing the phone from the iPhone will make it cheaper to make.
@emax etc, removing the iPod from the iPhone will not make it cheaper at all. (unless u remove some of the ram, but that will only result in a marginal difference in price)
Count me in…
I want one sans phone.
in fact I will buy one without activation if they would let me.
(or even buy it, then cancel the service and pay the 200$ penalty)
Finally people have figured out why ‘some’ analysts have said that Apple has put the writing on the wall for the phone companies.
MW= ‘shall’…as a great American leader said, “WE SHALL OVERCOME”.
(even though he didn’t mean the damn phone companies)
i think it’s pretty obvious that the next iPod will be based on the iPhone.
just remove the phone chip, add a hard disk (or more ram$) there u go.
anyone who owns an iPod will want one.
Oh hell, when will people get it through their thick heads that Steve Jobs showed us the iPhone because he wanted to be the one to tell us about it, not have it leaked all over the place when they submitted it for licensing etc?
Steve Jobs showed us an INCOMPLETE product, STILL IN DEVELOPMENT for cryin out loud!
Here’s some hints. The iPhone runs OS X. Get it? It runs friggin OS X. Does it have iChat? Duh!
Does it have every single program and feature expected from a device running OS X? Duh!
Hang on, you saw half the finished product – so if you said wow! When it actually comes out you gonna shit your pants. That’s the truth!