iPhone on the way
The iPhone lets you surf actual Web pages.
(Credit: CNET Networks)If you read any of the Mac news sites, you probably already know the official release date for the iPhone is June 29. With the release only three weeks away, Apple has been ramping up the hype with three new commercials showing more of the iPhone's features.
I have to admit, for my part, the hype is doing its job. The latest group of ads show off the versatility of the iPhone using a number of its features together. My favorite is the one entitled "Watered Down." In this ad, you get a brief look into what it's like to surf the Internet using Safari on the iPhone. The point of the ad is to show how the iPhone doesn't give you a watered-down version of the Internet like other devices; you get to browse actual Web pages, zooming in on the stories you want to read. Like all the iPhone ads, at the end we're delivered back to reality with an incoming call--lest we forget, it's still a phone.
With the World Wide Developers Conference starting next week, we are sure to hear (and see) more about the iPhone. There are also plenty of rumors that more Mac OS X Leopard details will be let out of the cage at the conference. Maybe I'm too much of an Apple (and iPhone) fan, but I can't help but be excited at the new technology.
What do you think? Is the iPhone hype working its magic on you? Are you going to buy the iPhone when it comes out? Are you going to wait and see what it's really like before passing judgment? Let me know in the comments!
So take my advise DONT buy the iphone till AFTER Apple decide to release the version it wanted to in the first place (thus wait till they release the version that will work in Europe and the rest of the world on the 3G or 3.5 G networks not the crappy EDGE that only the USA uses.
(never could figure out why the USA insist on being the backwater in cell phone tech.?)
hooked me, and I will likely pony up the bucks for the big boy version June 29.
My only "except" to going iPhone: I am a BlackBerry user and use email a lot on
my PDA. I am concerned about how well the touchscreen on the iPhone will work
for fast typing emails. I notice none of the commercials show anyone typing,
except for the one time the guy uses one finger to type in one word looking for
seafood. Who uses one finger to type emails or SMS? So I think I am in, except...
- I hate the Hype
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by mlt658
June 26, 2007 9:35 AM PDT
- This was a vision for me 3-4 years ago. Glad to get the last item using windows,
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(4 Comments)"MY CELL PHONE" . I have been using computers going back to the early "70". In
those days I would hear what do you need a computer for? It was also my vision.
I got tired of the windows around me breaking and and getting cuts from the
shards of glass. So I switched to APPLE. Ever had a broken window in your house
ever broken a window. The answer is yes. When was the last time you went to
the kitchen a broke an apple........think about it..........