“It says something about the state of the cellphone industry that the product looming largest over the annual wireless show doesn’t even exist yet. Never mind that it’s coming from a company that’s never even made a cellphone,” Bruce Meyerson reports for The Associated Press.
Meyerson reports, “Indeed, the ‘preverberations’ from Apple Inc.’s plan to bring its addictive design simplicity and elegance to wireless with the iPhone is palpable across a good many announcements slated for CTIA Wireless 2007, which opens on Tuesday.”
“While the prototype that Apple unveiled back in January instantly drew drools with its slender, sleek looks, the real test will be whether the iPhone’s large touch-screen interface rewrites the rules for ease of use when it becomes available in June,” Meyerson reports.
In his full article, Meyerson covers a bunch of upcoming devices that each sound like non-winning high school science fair entries next to Apple’s iPhone – with a Morgan Fairchild reference, no less – here. Sliding physical keyboards? How quaint!
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Sad that so many other industries suffer from Microsofibrosis.
MDN Magic Word: “Needed” as in “The cellphone industry needed a kick in the ass”
I made a paper mache volcano once that had a bottle in the middle which you put baking soda in and then poured vinegar with red food dye color and it made foamy lava..
As amaturish as that was, it was a hell of a lot more entertaining than the junk phones the also-ran iPhone wish they were’s are still crapping out.
Note to others in the industry. Take the class Creativity 101.
I know that Apple has never made a mobile phone, but hasn’t the factory that makes the iPhone; haven’t they made cell phones before? I mean, does Motorola make their own phones or is that just all sent off-shore to be made too?
Also, I’ve heard that people in Asia and the EU have mobile phones that do all kinds of things that the cell phones here in the U.S. aren’t able to do, and that the main restrictions are placed on them by the servers. Does anyone here know if that’s true or not?
It’s obvious that the iPhone is going to kick butt this Summer. Apple isn’t even going to be able to keep up with demand again, just like they always do with their Macs. I see the excitement everywhere that I go.
“If you’re serious about software, you should make your own hardware.”
End. Of. Story.
“A keyboard. How quaint.”
-s
I agree with Drunk Cheney. These cell phone manufacturers (other than Motorola, at times) have no creativity in design or function. I have a new LG that replaced my 3-yr old LG phone and its worse than my old one!
Hey, hey, heeeayyy! The iPhone will go down in flames next to Windows Mobile 6 smart phones. WM6 is the best mobile Windows version yet! It also allows developers to write software that enables WM6 smart phones to do more. The iPhone is a security risk to corporate servers, doesn’t do Exchange, and has NO KEYBOARD!!!!!
Never mind that it’s coming from a company that’s never even made a cellphone
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Fitting that the iPhone is not a cell phone.. it just has a phone program on it.
Anyone noticed all the special sales for the pre-iPhone phones all over TV for the past few days? Panic is contagious.
Not phone related but just saw the Zune discounted @ BestBuy. Isn’t that a sign of desperation? Rumor is they won’t reach that 1 million mark by June.
Sales are like paris hiltons panties……down.
It’s not the making, it’s the designing.
For whatever it is worth. I was talking to Cingular the other day while trying to fix a mistake on my bill and was chatting with the lady about the iPhone. My contract is up in June and I was asking about renewing it with new phones. She told me that insurance WOULD NOT be available with the new iPhone. Not that I was going to get one anyway, but like I said, for whatever…….
iPhone is not even a product yet but hte world can’t stop talking about it. This weekend we had a one page “article” (not very accurate) on the iPhone in the suplement to my local newspaer. This is a spanish Magazine and a Canarian newspaper we are talking about.
Funy thing is, the article states Steve Jobs, president of Apple, as the inventor of the iPod in 2001. Nowhere in the whole story is a word about computers.
MW: “first” – this is the first time in 15 years that I see a one page story about an Apple (will be) product in this Magazine
Ready to rock, roll & ring.
@hooty,
And we’re off –
Customer walks into a Cing. or ATT store and asks for an iPhone.
Cing. sales person: What’s that?
Cust. says: “…you know, the new cell phone from Apple.
Cing.: Just a minute I’ll be right back.
Cust.: (Waits patiently for five uniterrupted minutes)
Different Cing. sales person comes out:
Cing.: Can I help you?
Cust.: I was just wanting to have a look at the new Apple iPhone since my contract is up for renewal.
Cing.: I don’t think we have any of those in stock at the moment.
Cust.: When do you expect them?
Cing.: We haven’t heard anything from Apple recently but the last I heard they’re back ordered.
Cust.: For how long?
Cing.: We just don’t know – Have you seen the new LG phone that came out about the same time the Apple phone came out?
Cust.: Yes…
Cing.: That’s basically the same thing, and with a two year contract it’ll only cost you $100 bucks. Its really a great deal and we can send you out today with a brand new full featured phone. You know, this is Apple’s first cell phone and we really don’t expect to sell that many of them, and the first ones to hit the shelves are probably going to be full of bugs. So about that LG…
Isn’t preverberation a word that sounds dirty but isn’t like mastication and angina?
now this is really quaint, “slide up along a different track to expose a full typewriter keyboard.” A typewriter keyboard? Am I the only who thinks a cellphone with a typewriter keyboard will be really big and really really clunky?
When are they going to have a cellphone keyboard with hammers like those really old typewriters?
Or an IBM Selectric?
That would be cool.
Dot matrix phones? Come on, Microsoft. Innovate!
I’m holding out for a phone with a pen and paper accessory, Steve Ballmer told me if a cellphone hasn’t got a pen and paper holder, it’s not worth buying.
@ elHobi,
My grandmother was Canarian, but she only spoke drunkenese.
The iPhone will rock-
And the rest will sing the blues….
OR
The iPhones soul
will make the others a classic…
Hmmm…..
MW:progress!
@ Mr. Peabody
I think it’s going to go more like this…
AT&T_employee_1: ARE THEY STILL OUT THERE?
AT&T_employee_2: {looks through cracks in plywood} Yeah, one of them has a crow bar.
AT&T_employee_1: Shit! Do we have anything else to block the doors with?
AT&T_employee_2: We have an LG Chocolate display…
AT&T_employee_1: USE IT!!! Like we’re ever going to nee that again.
AT&T_employee_2: Oh hell, they have an SUV, I think they’re gonna ram the door…
AT&T_employee_1: {into bullhorn} I REPEAT, WE ARE OUT OF STOCK OF THE NEW APPLE IPHONE. PLEASE DISPERSE AT ONCE OR WE WILL…
AT&T_employee_2: We will what?
AT&T_employee_1: I DON’T KNOW!!!! We’re out of ammo!!!
AT&T_employee_2: That’s it. They do NOT pay me enough for this, I’m going back to Olive Garden.
{outside, sounds of engines revving…}
=)
-c
MW: ‘few’ (employees will know what hit them)
@ChrissyOne
LOL
“Preverberations”?
I love it when you get a chick to do that! Wait. What was that article about again?