“We’ve gotten copies of the full iPhone Training manual provided to AT&T employees that gives us a few more details about Apple’s iPhone,” arn reports for Mac Rumors.
The training manual is broken down into features of the iPhone and Mac Rumors has provided a list of highlights and links to the actual scans of the workbook.
A few points to whet your appetite:
• GPS is not part of the iPhone feature set
• Users can have a voice conversation whilst browsing the web “when Wi-Fi access is available”
• Media Net, MobiTV, or Cellular Video are not available on iPhone
• iPhone users will not be able to conduct IM conversations with instant messaging users
• iPhone features vibrate mode
Full article here.
I think cindynjgirl79 is not going to be working for AT&T much longer…
GPS is not part of the iPhone feature set”
look hhow it’s written – they could have said : It does not have GPS –
I think the Iphone can have gps as a plug in (think Nike +) or as bluetooth car kit
NO IM?
WTF
Dear cindynjgirl79@aol.com,
Loose lips sink ships!!
much love,
Steve J.
ps: and I thought it was strange when ships only leaked from the top down…
IM – it’ll have wifi and web, so meebo will work, right?
Please start count your days until you are terminated by AT T.
iPhone users will not be able to conduct IM conversations with instant messaging users
Uhh, if I can iChat from my Mac to any cell phone today, why would the iPhone be any different?
“iPhone users will not be able to conduct IM conversations with instant messaging users”
Google’s GMail does chat with a web interface. Unfortunately, it’s IE/Firefox only. (JavaScript issues perhaps?)
In principle if Apple can’t put iChat on there, or AT & T won’t agree to that, you could still do it by means of a web app, like GMail … providing the web app worked with Safari.
Calling Shannigans SHANNIGANS… Your tell me that ATT let these people keep that manual B.S No way they had a meeting and the manager took them back after. This is some really good B.S. No one can get there hands on any Iphone stuff, but this person does. Oh yeah and you can send messages with pictures. It’s actually on the Apple Website, an Jobs did that during his last WWDC presentation. Still calling this is a real good fake. Oh yeah what about a Voice Recorder. I use mine alot on my palm. Good Feature but does the iphone have that??
brian
Really? No IM?? I’d think iChat on the iPhone would be a killer app for it. That’s truly disappointing if true
@realnbk
Nike+ does not use GPS. It uses information about your steps to determine how far you run. This is why it works on a treadmill.
They said the chat was SMS and there was no ichat from day one.
What is the big deal with GPS. I never lost enough to need GPS, it is merely a cool looking feature when it works. A map is nice and as long as I have an elegant map then I am fine. If I need GPS to go on a date, then I dont need to be on that date. GPS is a battery draining, peformance draining feature best left to the stand alone GPS devices offered in many car stereos or Tom Toms and Garmins.
hellobeebo: “They said the chat was SMS and there was no ichat from day one.”
Umm… no they didn’t, they never confirmed or denied if there would be an IM client. This is the first time we’ve had a complete list of shipping apps.
Does the iPhone support voice recognition? I’d hate to think the only way I could make a phone call in my car was to use the user interface of the iPhone. When I’m driving, I’d rather just speak the name of the person I want to call.
I guess its pretty reasonable to think there won’t be VOIP? Must make voice calls only through AT&T’s network.
I stand corrected on the VIBRATE option, but alas other deficiencies surface. Not good.
File this under wishful thinking, but remember that hte iPhone is really a small computer. If the iPhone does not have iChat from day 1, there is no reason that it cant be added later. Same with the GPS… (well.. not GPS per se) but ATT already can do tower based location finding, it just needs to be able to pass that information back to the phone. I’m certain this is something that Apple is looking into adding in the future. Thats the beauty of software.
Apple have said that both the iPhone and AppleTV are going to be updated via software as time goes on. That means functions like IM will turn up later.
As for GPS, basic location finding can be done with the cell towers. This may not be able give you turn by turn direction finding but will certainly be able to tell you where you are. Again good software may improve performance.
For the first time, the first adopters may not lose out with next generation products sine Apple will be enhancing the units as time goes on.
DogGone
“That means functions like IM will turn up later.”
No DogGone, it means that in theory ‘could” turn up later only a word difference but a hell of a word anyway
Mole hunt.
No IM, please.
I don’t care about GPS. I have GPS in both vehicles–Mine and my wife’s.
iChat would be nice, but not having it is not a deal killer for me. Although, it is possible to iChat with cell phone users–You just don’t enter the screen name for initiation–you enter ‘+’, and the phone number including area code. I’m not sure about initiating the chat from the iPhone though…
Again though, as others have stated, software updates will add new goodies as time progresses.
I’m sold already on the iPhone based on the features that have been demoed. I’m not counting on some mystery app that may or may not be included, depending on which rumor is accurate.
My current contract expired last month, and my service now is lousy. I’m ripe for iPhone.
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If there were to be more Apps for the iPhone, they’d definetly be on the home screen, and I think that’s the reason they only put 11 icons on it in the first place.
I don’t know what all the complainign about iChat is about though. I know for a fact that AIM & MSN both allow you to send text messages directly to cell phones. All that matters is that the SMS interface looks like iChat, even if it is using SMS, you’ll effectively be testing between an IM screen name and a phone. I will grant that for this to work, an AIM user or MSN user has to text you first. It works perfectly for me on both AIM and MSN.
Try it now if you don’t believe me… type your cell phone number into AIM as a simple SN, and see if it works. Use this format: +1***####### [where the *** is your area code ant the # symbol represents the 7 digits of your US Cell Phone number.
Example: +15559876543 if the phone number is (555) 987-6543
WARNING: Standard text fees will apply, just as if you recieved a message from someone elses phone.
I beat you to it Kevin. :p
How do the following things “whet” my appetite?
1) GPS is not part of the iPhone feature set.
2) Media Net, MobiTV, or Cellular Video are not available on iPhone.
I was hoping for live video camera capabilites so I can see others live as they are conversing with me.