iPhone: Minority report meets major bills
10 Jan 07 Filed in: Phones
Just wow, Mr Jobs, that iPhone is one gadget to make you drool into your cornflakes. It will also make us all work harder! Why so? How else are we going to pay for surfing online 18 hours a day with this Minority Report era gadget. Hopefully, Apple have done a sweet deal with Cingular and the first 17 hours a day will be free?
This latest Apple creation is a phone, right? Right and wrong! For marketing purposes, the $300 device formerly known as iPod has morphed into a $500 multi-purpose mobile device. In the makeover, Apple have moved from the MP3 domain into the realms of a cell phone market where 1 billion units a year get sold.
At last, a 1% market share will have a re-branded Apple Inc salivating. This must be a welcome change from the defensive line taken by Apple Computers, who until yesterday were the apologists for their niche 2-3% of the PC market.
The Cupertino kids have broken the constant need to buy a new cell phone every year! Apple's physical format for a "phone" is timeless and user-friendly . No cell can possibly be bigger overall, unless Microsoft have something to say, of course! And any smaller and even the girlies will be complaining of key size.
To make sure the "phone" remains uptodate in terms of features, Apple have dropped in a proper operating system. This means they can offer us punters software updates to download ad infinitem. The iPhone is long term cheap even at the relatively high upfront price.
Think about it. Because the Blackberry is a glorified phone, it has overall size limits. They presumably can't copy Apple, so the case of any new Blackberry incarnation is going to be roughly the size of what you have now with more of the same "old" look With each new Blackberry generation, comes the need to spend hundreds, just for a different key and screen layout and a little bit of new software inside.
Apple's iPhone on the other hand has a physical format that will last for years and you just upgrade the internal features to meet the latest hi-tech requirements, presumably via a simple download. Cool beans, Jobsy.
It will take several posts to get across what it can do, but physically, in a nutshell, it is a blank black tablet with the brains to change into a phone, an iPod, a video player, photo displayer, an internet surfer, a homemaking bundle of American joy. It doesn't adopt Microsoft technology and weigh in at 3lbs. Far from it, the iPhone is small and light, and has a good battery life. Although, if you ask me, 5 hours continuous talk time on a phone seems way too long for the good of your health.
It is spookily clever too. If you make a phone call, when you hold it to your ear, it recognizes the side of your sweaty face and shuts off all buttons in disgust. Unfortunately that button-free feature makes it impossible to accidentally cut-off a difficult phone call, but oh well, such is the cost of new technology! It also has clever graphics and can auto swivel video and photos from portrait mode into widescreen mode, at will. It also lets your fingers stretch and shrink photos on-screen, and it makes the tea. All-in-all a wonderful gadget.
It is simplicity itself. Not even a pisstaker can screw this phone up. Roughly the size of your blackberry, (but less than 12mm thin), it has one button, Home. Glory glory. One fricking button. Thankyou god Jobs. No silly buttons, no accidental mis-dialing. And inside it has the brains to work out when to display any keypad or menu format you want.
On this point alone, even as someone who never gets out the basement, I now see the need for a mobile phone. The iPhone is our new flexible friend, and we will be raping another flexible friend later this summer in order to buy it when it comes out. And when we get over the excitement and hype, we will tell you in detail why it is a neat bit of kit, and you will see why you should consider selling your kids' teeth if you are short of cash or credit at buy time.
So what is all the fuss about?
This latest Apple creation is a phone, right? Right and wrong! For marketing purposes, the $300 device formerly known as iPod has morphed into a $500 multi-purpose mobile device. In the makeover, Apple have moved from the MP3 domain into the realms of a cell phone market where 1 billion units a year get sold.
At last, a 1% market share will have a re-branded Apple Inc salivating. This must be a welcome change from the defensive line taken by Apple Computers, who until yesterday were the apologists for their niche 2-3% of the PC market.
The killer move from Apple
The Cupertino kids have broken the constant need to buy a new cell phone every year! Apple's physical format for a "phone" is timeless and user-friendly . No cell can possibly be bigger overall, unless Microsoft have something to say, of course! And any smaller and even the girlies will be complaining of key size.
To make sure the "phone" remains uptodate in terms of features, Apple have dropped in a proper operating system. This means they can offer us punters software updates to download ad infinitem. The iPhone is long term cheap even at the relatively high upfront price.
iPhone is the Blackberry business model killer
Think about it. Because the Blackberry is a glorified phone, it has overall size limits. They presumably can't copy Apple, so the case of any new Blackberry incarnation is going to be roughly the size of what you have now with more of the same "old" look With each new Blackberry generation, comes the need to spend hundreds, just for a different key and screen layout and a little bit of new software inside.
Apple's iPhone on the other hand has a physical format that will last for years and you just upgrade the internal features to meet the latest hi-tech requirements, presumably via a simple download. Cool beans, Jobsy.
The look of iPhone
It will take several posts to get across what it can do, but physically, in a nutshell, it is a blank black tablet with the brains to change into a phone, an iPod, a video player, photo displayer, an internet surfer, a homemaking bundle of American joy. It doesn't adopt Microsoft technology and weigh in at 3lbs. Far from it, the iPhone is small and light, and has a good battery life. Although, if you ask me, 5 hours continuous talk time on a phone seems way too long for the good of your health.
iPhone sensory perception
It is spookily clever too. If you make a phone call, when you hold it to your ear, it recognizes the side of your sweaty face and shuts off all buttons in disgust. Unfortunately that button-free feature makes it impossible to accidentally cut-off a difficult phone call, but oh well, such is the cost of new technology! It also has clever graphics and can auto swivel video and photos from portrait mode into widescreen mode, at will. It also lets your fingers stretch and shrink photos on-screen, and it makes the tea. All-in-all a wonderful gadget.
The iPhone beats all cell phones out there.
It is simplicity itself. Not even a pisstaker can screw this phone up. Roughly the size of your blackberry, (but less than 12mm thin), it has one button, Home. Glory glory. One fricking button. Thankyou god Jobs. No silly buttons, no accidental mis-dialing. And inside it has the brains to work out when to display any keypad or menu format you want.
On this point alone, even as someone who never gets out the basement, I now see the need for a mobile phone. The iPhone is our new flexible friend, and we will be raping another flexible friend later this summer in order to buy it when it comes out. And when we get over the excitement and hype, we will tell you in detail why it is a neat bit of kit, and you will see why you should consider selling your kids' teeth if you are short of cash or credit at buy time.
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