“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.
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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?
…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.