Saving My Money
January 9th, 2007Apple 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.
January 9th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
And $300 more than we ever planned.
January 10th, 2007 at 7:47 am
Well, there is that, isn’t there?
Like I said last night, I’ll likely never have one. It’s not bad to want, though, is it?
January 10th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
I think you must have been an Apple in your past life. Not a fruit apple. One of those big Apple computers that someone threw away in 1971…or um, was it 1978?
January 11th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
I think I’ve now decided to wait until the next model comes out in a couple of years. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Apple integrates a bunch of the technologies from the iPhone (wide screen, touch controls, etc.) into the iPod line. I’ll gladly upgrade to a new iPod…
January 12th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
I’ve no doubt.
January 17th, 2007 at 1:55 am
Purrrrrrrr, and with cell and web browsing, comes GPS navigation, weather, trafic, etc… soon we’ll be OS dual booting, and taking it to the extreme… and then it will happen. We will wake, bow our heads as so many are already doing with their phones or MP3 players and plug into our pods until our (or our pod’s batteries) become in need of charging. We’ll grab a Monster® or Starbucks® and continue on. What happened to silence? Sitting on a park bench, standing in an elevator, driving, eating a meal, must we always play some game on our phone or a movie in our ipods? Did no one ever see the first Matrix??? I don’t want one of those jelly bubbles and a tube down my throat!
On second review of the iphone…
Sweet, where can you buy an iphone? (by the way, I typed this while streaming XM through the PC, bluetooth headset connected to my crackberry on one ear expecting a call about a Webinar, a Monster® AND a Starbucks® sitting on my desk, at work at 1AM in downtown Houston, watching the weather radar in one corner of my screen, surfing your site and trying to find that blasted 11.14 Ze Frank episode you didn’t laugh at!)
Love you Chris, thanks for introducing me to Red Hat so, so many years ago!
January 17th, 2007 at 7:26 am
My pleasure!
January 31st, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Now you know I can’t resist and I’ll buy the first generation iphone and you’ll inherit it my Treo 650 and then when I buy the second generation iPhone, you’ll get my first unless your most excellent wife has already caved and agreed you should have one even thought it’s far too expensive, and then I’ll be sorry I spent all that money, but oh well that’s what it’s for – better than letting you inherit the money itself.
Very poorly edited sentence, that, but I’m very nearly spinning with delight at the thought of having one of those (nice mental image, right?) and we all know I have no self-control when it comes to Apple products.
Are you going to help me buy the iTV when you visit in March?
February 2nd, 2007 at 3:12 pm
If you’d like. I’m waiting for the first review to show up, so we know what they’re really capable of.