“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 $100/month (who knows how much it will really cost) to use this great new device,” Adam writes.
Full article here.
Okay, who else wants an “iPhone sans phone” and doesn’t want to wait until fall or whenever Apple decides to release it as the new iPod?
The answer is a pay-as-you-go phone option. Voice calls charged at a premium but no fixed-term contract. Along with the device being enabled for wireless internet connection whenever its in range of a hotspot. That way anyone can own an iPhone and enjoy all its features without having the burden of an unwanted and largely unused expensive monthly contract.
This must be an issue for Apple as they’ll count themselves out of a massive market-sector for the iPhone with this contract attached to it as a condition of hardware ownership – and I expect Cingular will be very twitchy about allowing Skype-type services.
I would really like Apple to release a mobile version of OSX that can be installed on any current “Smartphone”. While I like my Blackjack, it runs Windows Mobile, and it shows. Occasional freezes, alarm clock is unreliable…etc.
Me…
removing the phone from the iPhone will make it cheaper to make.
@emax etc, removing the iPod from the iPhone will not make it cheaper at all. (unless u remove some of the ram, but that will only result in a marginal difference in price)
Count me in…
I want one sans phone.
in fact I will buy one without activation if they would let me.
(or even buy it, then cancel the service and pay the 200$ 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!