iPhone

mahdoum

For those of you that didn't know, the consumer electronics show (CES) has been going on for about 3 days now in Las Vegas. Lots of new and innovative products from various companies large and small have been showcased at the show.

Only a few hours ago Steve Job finally announced the iPhone. An all apple brand touchscreen only phone, ie the whole phone is a touch screen. From what the phone can do and how it looks it really looks amazing, just have to wait and see actual reviews of people using them.

Few key features
-Runs OSx
-2 megapixel camera
-wifi, bluetooth
-4GB model and 8GB model

Check out the below links for more information on the product

http://www.apple.com/iphone/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-apple-iphone/

rolf

This is the cell phone I have been looking for :)

mahdoum

rolf wroteThis is the cell phone I have been looking for :)

seconded

mir

599 $ right ?

oh!

i am starting to save :D

battikh

3anjad apple are such great designers. all the things they do is so aesthetic, enno kharj yen7atto decoration bil salon
bass anyways, it seems it has some few problems. it's not 3G compatible (who cares for that, we need 20 more years to have 3G in lebanon), u cant remove the battery, u cant install new softwares

ana what i considered getting is teh sony ericsson bluetooth watch ( http://www.sonyericsson.com/bluetoothwatch/ , http://www.mobiledia.com/news/51784.html )

bass anyways, for the iPhone, really cool, really nice looking, bass i'll wait for some reviews first. it's getting out in june in teh USA?

rolf

battikh wroteu cant install new softwares

what?!

mahdoum

yes that is true, the iPhone does not fall under the category of smartphones, therefore extra apps cannot be easily installed. On the other hand any geek who has a phone like that will not let that stop them, i'm sure you'll find linux on the phone soon :P

karim-soubra

cisco suing apple
claiming iphone is theire's

battikh

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apples-jobs-more-iphone-apps-coming-before-launch/9320

that's for the problem about installing softwares. but as mahdoum said, there will probably be ways to go around this.
and mahdoum, in a way, it's already running unix as it runs mac osx.

mahdoum

Heres a few more interesting stuff,

When the iPhone was announced at the CES, people directly started talking about cisco suing apple for their 7 year old patent. But cisco said that there have been talks between them and Apple and that by tomorrow they would come to an agreement. Turns out that Cisco didn't want money, they wanted some rights of the phone ie be able to re-create some parts of it. But Apple seems to have refused and so now Cisco are sueing Apple.

the iPhone runs on a samsung processer and not an intel processer, although the reason seems to be to keep the slim factor like many samsung phones

rolf

battikh wrotehttp://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apples-jobs-more-iphone-apps-coming-before-launch/9320

that's for the problem about installing softwares. but as mahdoum said, there will probably be ways to go around this.
and mahdoum, in a way, it's already running unix as it runs mac osx.

I read the article.
If the phone OS is well designed, then applications shouldnt pose a danger for the stability of the device. Maybe there are sales motives behind this decision to restrict applications, so that apple has the monopoly on selling apps.

karim

The iPhone trademark belongs to Cisco, their using it on their linksys range of wifi phones if i'm not mistaken.

I wonder how the sue happy american ppl at Cisco didn't attack apple yet.. :P

LebaneseChiphead

I thought I read some where today that both Cisco and Apple agreed on sharing that name :)

mahdoum

lol yeah they agreed to both use the name but cisco get to mingle and know more about how the iPhone actually functions, which is supposedly what cisco asked for in the first place

Chris

http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/iphone-facts-from-the-first-reviews/

Wow, they really screwed sh*^ up.

WizaRd

oops posted in the wrong topic