As everyone knows the Apple iPhone was released yesterday at participating stores near you. You can stand in line to pick from two choices of iPhones that offer 4gb or 8gb of storage space. I have only the information on the web and other media resources I use to have any understanding of what the iPhone is capable of doing. It is certainly a beautiful product that Apple always manages to pull off. If money was not an issue for a product I really have no need for, I would love to go out to the store and pick one up. It has such an interesting interface that you can't help to want to get your hands on one. Rate plans on At&t are actually quite reasonable compared to my Blackberry through Alltel. Perhaps this will help drive competition with other companies. Two reporters on the local station here in Punta Gorda, Florida where showing off there iPhones on the morning broadcast. If this isn't the perfect example of hype, what else could get this type of play. The biggest excitement this new phone from Apple brings to me is a chance to see a new upcoming iPod. The iPhone offers the perfect interface for a large storage wide screen iPod. I don't need a new phone, but I would love to have a new iPod. I will be in line for the release of a new iPod, which I hope to see before the holiday season.
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iHype! How does Apple do it? Can you imagine introducing a product that even gets covered on local channels as "news." What great free advertising! But I think we sometimes lose perspective. I had to go to the AT&T store on June 29 on other business. When I got back to the office and mentioned the line for the iPhone at the store, both my secretary and my associate said, "iWhat? What's that?" I guess not everyone is a technerd.
PC World did an article in the 10 things they did right and the 10 things tey did wrong. Here are the wrongs :
1. We want our AOL Instant Messaging--and Yahoo and MSN IM clients, too. What about MMS support for sending picture mail?
2. There's no voice recording and, more importantly, no voice dialing support. How are you supposed to use an iPhone with a hands-free car kit?
3. It's the most locked-down phone we've ever seen. You can't swap out the AT&T SIM card for one from another network; in fact, you can't even swap it out for another AT&T SIM card.
4. AT&T is building out its mobile broadband network, but iPhone users are stuck with the company's older EDGE technology--or with battery-consuming Wi-Fi.
5. You know those great headphones you already own? They won't fit the iPhones headset jack, so your first iPhone accessory will have to be a bulky, ugly $10 adapter.
6. The software keyboard invites typos--and when you're entering passwords, there's no way of telling whether you've got them right until tyou get an "access denied" prompt.
7. It's great that the iPhone can reorient pages in Safari, CoverFlow, and the photo album, but why not extend that capability to other apps such as e-mail? Some messages would benefit from a wide-screen display. And even when the device does reorient, it doesn't always follow through with all the attendant features: CoverFlow loses access to the volume slider, for example.
8. There's no support for custom ringtones--surprising in a music phone.
9. The camera is rudimentary, with no audio/video or even a zoom capability.
10. You don't get to-do list support, a basic in most calendar applications.
Personally, I think these are significant "wrongs".....
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