No presales for the iPhone
Apple iPhone
(Credit: CNET Networks)The Boy Genius got his hands on a Cingular/AT&T sales brief for the upcoming Apple iPhone. Though we don't know for sure if the document is legit, it doesn't have any red flags that would denote it as a fake. And while it doesn't answer the biggest iPhone question (the release date), it predicts the handset's software will be five years ahead of any cell phone.
According to the document, presales of the iPhone will not be allowed, and there will be no waiting lists for interested customers. The document then repeats the prices for the phone ($499 for 4GB, $599 for 8GB) and warns that there should not be any additional speculation/discussion about pricing. It also cautions against providing specific release dates to customers and repeats that we'll see it "sometime in June." One step forward, two steps back.
Kent German is a senior editor for cell phone reviews at CNET. When he's not testing the newest handsets on the market, he's blogging about cell phone news for Crave. In his On Call column, he answers reader questions and gives his take on the rapidly changing mobile industry. E-mail Kent.
While i don't own anything apple, i'd buy one for wife if Sprint carried it in a heartbeat. As it is, the main concern is cost of plan and whether the device does what apple says it will.
But even then, it still won't be capable of what a Treo can do. Or even the new Helio Ocean. So much for 5 years ahead. IMO, it starts out behind.
- Everything it can do, I've been doing with Windows Mobile for a while. Plus EV-DO is 3G.
- it might have a great music/video player, but the battery power is awful. I can go 3 days with lots of usage, before having to charge my HTC P4000.
- its an Apple product, so very little to no 3rd party apps, a price tag 3 times the price it should cost and you'll have to use itunes to sync
It is confirmed, Apple is officially drinking it's own kool-aid. As we all know, the iPhone is being released with technology that was brand new...a year ago. Apple marketing is the only one who believes this BS about the iPhone being "the most advanced phone available." What a joke.
everything. They will sell out in a day and the back orders will last 6 months.
Apple is way too conservative with an estimate of 10 million by the end of the
year. 25 million is more like it. I'm getting one - are you?
But saying it's 5 years ahead of anything is absolutely mad. If you think back to the state of mobile devices 5 years ago, we would barely have predicted what yould be around now, and I'm certainly expecting more from my communications device 5 years from now.
I like to own all the new cell phones, smartphones and PDAs.
The MAJOR issue I see with this phone is going to be battery life. On any smartphone or pda phone battery life has been horrible. I've had the Treo, Q and a few others. The Q was horrible. End of a 8 hour work day it was dead and needed to be charged before going out at night. This was with very little use, mostly 30 txt msg daily and no internet usage. I will not stand for any device like this. It needs to get me through one entire day without charging.
I would go out and change carriers and buy the iPhone in a heartbeat, although I expect battery life to be horrible, which is a total killer for me.
Not many people use the voice command, certainly not all numbers in the phonebook would be programmed in such way. That's just a lot of memory to handle by the phone.
Manual dialing on a tactiless phone = looking at the display. Less looking out = more likely chance to be involved in an accident.
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I could see it coming down over time, assuming Apple gets a reasonable share of the back-end service contract. Any guesses what this share might be?
- Whoa, no one has mentioned voice dialing??????
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by ikjadoon
May 20, 2007 1:49 PM PDT
- IT DOESN'T HAVE VOICE DIALING. *** was Apple thinking?
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