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I am pretty excited about the technology involved with this device. I was just watching Steve Jobs at MacWorld give his presentation of their new technology for the year and this thing is slick. Unfortunately Apple partnered with Cingular to bring the phone to market. I refuse to use Cingular because they are AT&T, and frankly I will not support such a monopolistic evil empire. And the prices are bit steep. (4GB = $499 with 2yr contract, 8GB = $599 with 2yr contract) I guess fashion has its price.
You know what I just noticed this phone is missing is a calendar function, and the ability to sync with my calendaring program. Maybe this is a hidden feature or something not discussed on Apple’s website. Give me full syncing with my calendar and I might be interested. Although what is it like to type on. The keyboard on my blackberry is easy (once you get used to it) so maybe the touchscreen is the same once you get the hang of it.
January 9, 2007 at 14:40
Damn thats pretty slick. Pricey but slick. Definitely a leap ahead of the pack.
January 9, 2007 at 16:14
now i want to see how said technology holds up to being banged around in my pocket/bag/briefcase 12 hours a day for a year. in and out, on and off. dropped a few times. how will the screen fair? will it scratch and look like crap?
and here is the best part, now we get to see a flood of crappy/tacky/obnoxious accessories come to market, just like the ipod
January 9, 2007 at 16:54
Yes screens get scratched. The part that pisses me really off are the finger prints. I am no Howard Hughes but I can’t fucking stand a slick glossy finish with a bunch of fingerprints on it. So what do you do…. Put some honking case on it to protect it. But then the cases always look like crap so you now have some crappy looking hightech protected shit with a glossy finish under it all.
How long before Apple makes the move to a fully touch screen iPod?
January 9, 2007 at 16:57
i agree, you take a nice and small ipod device, laden it with protective case and you get something twice the size and looks terrible.
now that their iphone is out i am sure the next iteration of the ipod will be widescreen with touch face. at least that seems like the logical step to me.
January 9, 2007 at 17:31
Boo!
January 9, 2007 at 18:13
Looks like Tomithy needs a web designer for his website; Bagaki give him a call!
January 9, 2007 at 23:26
Wow. Just when I thought my life couldn’t possibly get any better. Now I can browse the “true” internets with my phone! I can listen to music and look at pictures without having my ipod with me! I can conduct business without my pda! Jesus Christ I can watch movies and I don’t even have to be in my car/suv! Now I can conceivably make every necessary public appearance that life requires while successfully avoiding contact with any persons that I do not know. Plus there’s that cool touch screen.
January 10, 2007 at 13:22
well apparently this does have a calendaring function but lacks syncability between common mail applications. Since it is running OSX, it is easily possible to add such functionality, but that would (at this time) need to come from Apple. We’ll see. I say it looks cool and will wow people but maybe sign me up for the second revision. Remember the first iPod and how cool it was, now thing of the 5G iPods and how much better they are.
January 10, 2007 at 14:09
Boo! Slime! Boo!
January 10, 2007 at 17:18
It only took a day and apple is being sued.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/ap_on_hi_te/cisco_apple
January 10, 2007 at 17:46
i knew that was going to happen. cisco announced their iphone last week or two weeks ago. i am sure the lawyers have been salivating over this for some time. there are actually 9 parties that claim trademark of the iphone name. you can bet cisco and apple are the only two with enough money to win the name. i feel bad for the little guy who trademarked the name years ago and is now going to loose it because he doesn’t have millions to fight this in court. honestly who knows if that is even the case, but if it were i side with the little guy/girl. (i must stay PC, remember that Gurt - otherwise its “to bed with force” from the boss again)