“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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I already been to the Cingular store and the guy asked if he could help me and I said, No, I’m waiting for June – you know, the iPhone?” He gave me a knowing smile and said, “Yeaaaaaaaahhhh!”
Have no fear, them guys gonna have theirs before you can buy yours.
I visited my local Apple Center today. Chatting a little with one of the staff and iPhone came up (of course!).
He then said they had an actual real waiting list of about 100 people for the iPhone.
And this in a swedish town of about 110 000 which are littered with cell phone stores and only a promise from Steve Jobs of hopefully the iPhone will come at the of end year!!!!
Man the iphone is going to be so cool. I am a t-mobile user i love t-mobile and am very happy with them and cant wait for the iphone i just dont know why apple chose cingular whose customer service is the worst in the business. I have enjoyed t mobile more then any other provider i have had and am not switching so i am hoping there will be an unlocked version. But i am going to have to have a case of some sort because i drop my phone almost daily and i would not want to drop this.
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The iPhone will sell by the bucket load.
Everyone I know wants one and people are delibrately not upgrading until the iPhone comes out.
SO – Up yours windows loving losers!
Drunk Cheney and others…
You can’t take a creativity class. You can’t learn it from a book.
You’re either got it or you don’t.
In this particular case, cell phone designers haven’t been very creative.
What did they do?
In our left hand we have a push button telephone… in our right, a walkie talkie..’
PRESTO… a cellular telephone!
And now for my next trick I will add a tiny, yet nearly useless camera! Voilá!
Engineering skill? Absolutely! Creativity? Nah.