Comments on: CTIA attendees ponder the iPhone

CTIA organizers devote an entire panel session to a single product from a company brand-new to the mobile phone market that didn't even attend the show: Apple's iPhone.

[technewsjunkie]

iPhone version 2 and 3rd party app.s

Coming soon.

iPhone is not merely a "touch screen", it's MULTI-touch, and it's
beginning.

[raulmot]

Multi-touch

I have an iPhone and love it. But I don't see the big deal about multi-touch as implemented. So you can pinch and expand images, web pages. Who cares. I prefer to double click to portions of a web page I'd like to zoom into on the iPhone. No reason photos can't work the same way. I'd much rather have copy and paste functionality. Now that's something multi-touch could be great for (selecting blocks of text for example). Grant it, they can get there with a software update, but for now, Multi-touch is no big deal.

[rhett121]

Luv'n it!

I've an iPhone as well and it's fantastic! I couldn't wait to dump that
overpriced Sony Ericsson turd I was using before. It's really a great
experience that gets better each time I use it.

Nobody figured it out until now because the TelCo's aren't
interested in making customers happy, they're interested in the
biggest profit for the least amount of effort. Cingular was a good
company and I'm sad AT&T bought them. They (Cingular) deserve
better.

[imacpwr]

Unlocked iPhone to be available in France.

Switzerland's "SonntagsZeitung" reported Sunday (Oct. 20) that
iPhones sold in France through Orange would have to comply with
consumer's rights laws of France by suppling in addition to the
"locked" Orange version an "unlocked" version which would allow
cell phone subscribers to use the cell phone provider of their
choice. This "Naked iPhone" comes at a price though as it's
expected to cost over $1,200.

[jlhudg23]

iPhone has impact?

Let's see: my ATT bill is the same, my Motorola phone is the same.

Where's the alleged "impact"?

[dobeowner]

Yes, it does ...

First of all just let me say that I do not own an iPhone, so this is
not speaking from a loyalty perspective. The impact is not to
you personally or really any individual. The impact comes from
bringing new ideas into a stale market, forcing other
manufacturers to take a new look at their own offerings while
also determining what factors are the most successful for the
iPhone. This is healthy competition that will drive the cell phone
industry beyond its' current business model and into a more
user-focused framework. The iPhone, love it or hate it, is proof
that consumers want device convergence and mobile
computing.

Don't look at this as platform wars (Os X vs. Symbian vs. Linux
vs. WM) but rather look to the whole picture of where cell phone
technology can and will go every time someone comes in and
shakes things up a bit. The iPhone may not be the right choice
for many people for vastly different reasons, but the fact
remains it is having a huge impact on the field and things can
only get better because of this.

[jbelkin]

It's the USER INTERFACE!

Once again (as with iPods), they left the controls to engineers or marketers. Just look at the latest SAmsung phone they are touting as an iphone competitor ... the icons are 1D, 2D & 3D along with another rows of icons that don't tell you what they are - what is an icon without meaning? A tiny phone handle is universally understood as a phone but a phone with two arrows? Is that talk or some sync thing?

Like the iPod, they just don't get it.

http://2aday.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/the-iphone-competition-still-not-so-much/