Intermittence

So…Ze Frank’s ending The Show on March 17 and heading to Hollywood, is he?

Keep it real, Ze.

Apple announced the iPhone today, and I want one. Why?

• It’s a widescreen iPod
• It’s a cellular phone
• It runs Mac OS X
  • I suspect we’ll start seeing third-party software for it almost immediately
  • If other people can write software for it, I can write software for it
• It syncs everything from the Mac
  • Contacts
  • Calendar
  • Notes
  • iTunes video and music
• It’ll surf the Internet
• It does e-mail
• It has a 2MP camera
• Just one button—the rest of the face is all touchscreen
• It has widgets—check movie listings, the weather, Google Maps…all without interrupting a call or stopping music playback
• MSRP of $499, undoubtedly less with a commitment to Cingular
• 5 hours of talk time or video playback time
• 16 hours of audio playback
• Sensors to detect rotation of the unit, and automatically rotate whatever’s onscreen into landscape or portrait mode
• Speakerphone
• Ambient light sensor to automatically adjust display brightness

I’m just about speechless. It’s everything I wanted in an Apple cellphone, except about five months later than I’d hoped.