TY TY..
I went to see the iPhone. Quite impressive. Actually what they
actually plan to do is already technically available the market.
With my iPaq I seldom use the stylus but instead use my fingers to
do the work.
From the looks of the presentation, it seems planned launch is June
2007. I bet I will be one of few suckers rushing to get it when it
gets released. I'm really impressed with the functionality of it.
Indicative price is USD 599 with a 2 year contract. Not exactly
cheap, but still within affordable range. Very competitive. The
slides further indicate partners with this is Yahoo!, Google,
Cingular Wireless AT&T (for the US). So the phone would have
direct programs that interface with Yahoo and Google.
Somehow I think the name iPhone is inappropriate. It is a browser,
camera, organiser, music/video player, phone. 8gig memory easily
allows it to behave as iPod. Somehow they could have kept the iPod
name on it, with a suitable 'ultra' suffix.
However, the important step that Apple needs to do is the
associated PC software to sync with the phone. I'm a given MS fan,
my contacts on my PDA phone seamlessly syncs my appointments and
contacts. Apple has to introduce a very credible outlook-style
program to win over that significant portion of the market.
It provides a very apparent value proposition to future devices
that fixed static buttons are a feature of the past. With
touchscreen LCD and even OLED, we can expect physical buttons with
set locations and functionality to be obsolete.
Some interesting slides (hope the link actually goes
through).
