Steve Jobs announced the new, highly anticipated Apple iPhone during his keynote this morning at Macworld 2007. It’s a touch controlled smart phone, combined with widescreen iPod (music, video & photos) and it is wi-fi enabled, running Mac OS X. The carrier is Cingular and they will start shipping it in June.
What can I say, that is one badass phone.
iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.
UPDATE 1: Right after the keynote ended Niall Kennedy shot a bunch of photos of the new iPhone that was on display at the Macworld expo.
UPDATE 2: A video of the iPhone introduction during the keynote is now available on Apple’s website.
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Don’t see anything special here, except it is thin.
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I love the new iPhone but the Apple TV doesn’t do much for me. The phone has some cool features that could make this the phone to have. Plus the phone could be the model for future advanced phones such as real time video phones seen in science fiction movies. Maybe not soon, but evehtually.
Um, maybe I’m too old school, but – how in the heck do you make a phone call on that thing?
Scott Beale, I don’t have a website. My friends are looking at this phone and saying well what is new. We have been doing this for years. There are several touch screens for smart phones. The OSX OS is not very compatibale and is harder to program for compared to Windows CE.
Dang, I wondered what the Newton has been up to all of these years.
-K
*hehehe*
This very sedate thread reminds me of the more vociferous thread going on over at Metafilter.
Someone there linked back to the original iPod release thread at Slashdot, which was highly amusing since you could basically cut and past iPhone into the iPod slots for the criticisms leveled at the original iPod.
“We have been doing this for years.” – Yes, you have, but joe phone buyer has not, and that is the market they are shooting for.
Sure, great gadget, fun TOY, lots of ‘features’. I’d buy one except for the one thing nobody is talking about – MONTHLY FEES! I’m willing to bet that basic service plus ‘options’ which will allow one to use those ‘features’ will be higher than the cost of maintaining my BMW Z3 (and I get a lot more ‘Bang-for-the Buck’ from the car). I’ll stick with my laptop with Slingbox, stand-alone GPS, a REAL camera and an expendable phone and laugh at the folks who’ll pay for such inane nonsense as ‘ring-tones’, etc.
It’s really not about phones. It’s about screens.
iPhone is available with Cingular ONLY!? And what if I am stuck under contract with a carrier OTHER than Cingular but still want a iPhone?
Well, the only solution I could fine was http://www.Cellswapper.com – they get you out of any cell phone contract!
I just don’t see the iPhone really hitting it big with “hardcore” cell phone users beacuse cell phones go out of date within 3 months nowadays. iPhone users are most likely going to be the people buying it for style over utility.