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iPhone Guided Tour and Site Redesign

Its a testament to the iPhone that the conversation from the haters has changed. It went from:

"It cant read doc and excel files? It sucks. My Windows Mobiles device could do that 4 years ago"

It supports both now.

"You cant navigate the tracks while the iPhone is in the pocket unlike the iPod"

the microphone piece handles incoming calls, can skip track and go back a track. I will be the type who listens to the iPod all day and will answer calls without taking my phone out.

"full screen video - core animation - wifi = the battery has to suck"

if the battery life is just 50% of what Apple now claims, then im happy.


to the main focus being on the ringtone situation. Job done Apple :D
 
ajhill said:
As a professional photographer at a very large studio here in town I can tell you that some of the cameras that we are currently using (Canon 1-d) are 4MP cameras. These images routinely get blown up to 8x10 and beyond with no degradation in quality.

2MP is fine. Any more and you would be eating too much into the 8GB of storage space.
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thank you. pretty much made my point. pixels does not equal quality. my 6MP point and shoot is nowhere close to my 8MP SLR and that's not because it has an extra 2MP. All the extra pixels do is take up space once you get above what your screen can display unless you plan on printing large prints.
 
I am hoping the space between the top twelve and bottom four applications, is a place to put "terminal.app", god please let there be a terminal.
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Dude, you will NEVER see Apple put a Terminal app on the iPhone. I cant even believe people are entertaining the idea. You will only get one if the thing is opened up to third party developers. This is a consumer phone. What does my cousin or mother want with a terminal?
 
ajhill said:
As a professional photographer at a very large studio here in town I can tell you that some of the cameras that we are currently using (Canon 1-d) are 4MP cameras. These images routinely get blown up to 8x10 and beyond with no degradation in quality.

2MP is fine. Any more and you would be eating too much into the 8GB of storage space.

Incidentally, my first Mac came with 20MB of HD storage space. At the time it seemed like a lot...
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Just adding one for the MP-isn't-everything brigade: I have 5MP on my phone and the coloring(?) is awful.
 
I dont know about you guys but

I AM TOTALLY SOLD !

:D

Hope to get one in Belgium before the end of the year ! With a Proximus data plan
 
ISMPlus said:
Why not? There are already on the iPods? I don't understand how can be so nervous about every thing> get with the time...;)
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i don't want to break such an important device when i drop it.

hard disks are on their way out anyway, especially for small/medium portable devices.

i also think that the iPhone is capable of executing code directly from the flash ram, without having to "load" it, same for data.
 
ISMPlus said:
Can someone tell me why would anyone want to replace the battery on their phone?? :confused: I've had the same phone for 5 years and I've never had to replace it. This isn't my first cell phone either... I've never found the need to replace the battery...
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same here, i never replaced a battery on a phone.
 
neven said:
You might WANT a Terminal on iPhone for your own bizarre reasons, but HOPING for it is like hoping that iPhone comes with a free Mac Pro.
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i want shark, quartz composer and xcode !, i mean it !!!

and python scripts, apache, mysql !
 
TPALTony said:
I think we are seeing WHY they shifted resources from Leopard to iPhone....

Look at the UI on the iPhone - it's CoreAnimation.

Look at the "readers" - it's QuickView

The iPhone runs on ARM processors, so that's updates to XCode (probably not released externally, but leveraging the tool.)

In other words, while the focus was on iPhone, it was still progressing Leopard. Core Animation and Quick View are probably baked now because they had to be ready for the iPhone.

All in all, the more I look at what it can do, the more I want one.

But they may have sparked MORE GPS comments with the driving directions demo. You know, "If it can do all that why not put a GPS chip in there and guide me..."

And lo, the rumors of a navigation system from apple can be fuelled some more.

While you may not like what Apple does sometimes, I myself can always find a method to their madness. Their actions are well thought out, it's just not always publically obvious as to why.

t
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great article.

TPALTony said:
be well

t
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and Be OS.
 
gugy said:
I am sold!
I want an iPhone!!!!:D

I just hope AT&T (Cingular) improved their coverage in San Diego. Bye, bye Verizon!
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thank god i'm in europe, where all phones can use ALL antenna's in ALL countries, on the mont blanc, in a tunnel, in the subway, anywhere.

i had never even heard of a "dropped call" i had no idea what that meant.
 
JGowan said:
I don't know if anyone has noticed (if it's been said in this 300+ post thread, I'm sorry): But ---

WHERE THE "F" ARE THE GAMES!?! Am I the only person who is blown away that GAMES are not on the iPhone!? Why is this? :mad:

EDIT: AJHILL hipped me to the latest rumor that the Big N and Apple are working together. I googled a bit and found that this is something a lot of people are speculating. One site suggests a $29 price tag per game -- WAY too frigging much $$$ if you ask me. I don't think Steve will allow this. However this rumor would explain why games aren't on the iPhone right now. Why else? Apple's selling games now ... I've got 3 games for my 5G iPod now -- why wouldn't you put games on the iPhone unless you were going to reveal some big-time Colab-action with the Big N!? This would be cool.
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People will have games available. You KNOW they will. Hopefully launch day, but soon in any case.

~ CB
 
engelsk said:
Am I right in thinking the iPhone has two microphones, one on the top and one on the bottom?

The one on the bottom is to the left of the iPod slot, and it looks like the speaker to the right of the iPod slot.

The one on the top is a small hole, and it looks like the built-in microphone on my PowerBook.

If I'm right, then the obvious question has to be: Why?

Or if I'm mistaken, then my apologies for wasting your time.
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the one at the top is the proximity detector (an infrared beam, activate when in a conversation)
 
jjd said:
Yeah, but the iPhone won't work with iSync. Does anyone else think that is crazy? Like no MMS. Why on earth not? (And no, "just email" is not an answer re the MMS issue - not everyone carries an email enabled phone and the point of MMS is phone to phone)
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OK.

but, is it completely certain that there is no MMS ?

if there is no MMS, it can be added easily.
 
that was an awesome video.....i think i might watch it again....i really want telstra to get over here in Australia, unfortunately it doesn't look like it will happen because the CEO bagged the crap out of it.....oh well, that was way off-topic, but seriously, awesome video, great way to build the hype even more...i'm sure they have sold many more people!!!
 
I hope to see a office application even if its web based-

In Australia no way will Telstra take it, and if they did I'd think twice about getting one as they are one of the worst companies in Australia to deal with. They also are appalingly run, have politicians meddeing in their day to day runnings and should be broken up.

I think Vodafone will get it. They are the worlds biggest cel phone company, are dynamic and UK owned (a definite plus in my book)-can't see 3 getting it as I don't think they are a dynamic enough company for apple to want to deal with
 
:eek:

What the hect is this?? From the redesigned site:

>>>>>
iTunes Account

To set up your iPhone, you’ll need an account with Apple’s iTunes Store. If you already have an iTunes account, make sure you know your account name and password. If you don’t have an account, you should set one up now to save time later. To set up an account, launch iTunes, select the iTunes Store, and click the Sign In button in the upper right corner of iTunes. Sign in and you’re ready to go.
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I can't use the phone if I don't have an iTunes account? What if I can't open one cause I don't have an american issued credit card?
 
odedia said:
:eek:

What the hect is this?? From the redesigned site:

>>>>>
iTunes Account

To set up your iPhone, you’ll need an account with Apple’s iTunes Store. If you already have an iTunes account, make sure you know your account name and password. If you don’t have an account, you should set one up now to save time later. To set up an account, launch iTunes, select the iTunes Store, and click the Sign In button in the upper right corner of iTunes. Sign in and you’re ready to go.
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I can't use the phone if I don't have an iTunes account? What if I can't open one cause I don't have an american issued credit card?
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you dont need an american credit card to sign up.

i have an itunes account in australia. and given that the phone is only being released in the US, whats the big problem?
 
notebook replacement

If the 17" MacBook Pro is a desktop replacement, then the iPhone could potentially be a notebook replacement. I love the "always connected" feature, but we will have to see how the EDGE network holds up. Expect to see some "insanely great" .mac-iPhone integration coming soon. Upload files from your Mac at home is a very compelling. I wonder how Google docs will hold up over EDGE on this thing. Editing work and excel docs would make it a great mobile computer.

I was originally going to wait for GPS, VoIP/Skype and MS Office document editing support, but this thing is so darn sexy that I don't think I can contain myself. :D
 
1988

Who ever thought that when NeXT released it's first product in 1988, that the OS was essentially a prototype for the next generation phone. :eek: :cool:
 
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