Comments on: iPhone

By: Duncan

Duncan — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:09:58 +0000

# Closed - no SDK for 3rd party development.

Well as it runs OSX I would expect that one can (eventually) run small aps on it.

# In the US, a 2 year Cingular contract will be required.

I haven't seen any good phones recently that don't require a contract. The Cingular exclusive may be more of a bore than the contract length for some. (I really couldn't care less.)

# Camera is only 2 megapixels.

Thats fine for a phone. My present (1 year old) phone only has 0.8 Megapixels which is ok for snapshots. Unless you are seriously thinking of having a phone replace a camera? The other points are valid.

By: David Warde-Farley

David Warde-Farley — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:26:20 +0000

I wouldn’t so much mind if they required third party apps to live in a sandbox. But no third-party apps whatsoever? Pfffft.

The whole touchscreen-with-precision thing looks like an HCI marvel, but I’m not going to shell out $500 USD for something that won’t run my code if I want it to. Granted, most phone SDKs only run on Windows, which is a big hassle.

No Wi-Fi syncing? What the hell CAN you do with it’s Wi-Fi, then?

By: Papuass

Papuass — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:37:18 +0000

Add “no GPS support” to that list.

By: dimitris

dimitris — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:18:39 +0000

The UI looks like (and will probably be) impressive. However, I detest closed platforms, and when it comes to my personal communications, a closed platform is pure poison. The lack of UMTS doesn't bother me that much. Data plans are ridiculous anyway, so I'd much rather condition myself on only using data-intensive apps when in WiFi coverage. On the other hand, on board GPS is sweet, so the phone I'm really waiting for is the OpenMoko (or, more likely, the WiFi-enabled model that's sure to follow). Fully open Linux phone, that's more like it. I can live without Jobs' and Cingular's eye-candy-shaped shackles.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:52:17 +0000

So there’s no iTunes store? Well, with only EDGE, downloading songs would be a pain anyway. But just thinking about this, couldn’t FairPlay be ported to Windows Mobile? That would effectively make any WM phone an instant iPhone too.

By: Stojance Dimitrovski

Stojance Dimitrovski — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:52:48 +0000

I was just looking forward to buy that phone. Darn! I guess I wont be wanting it any more!

By: mos8ball

mos8ball — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:08:01 +0000

Also, no built-in GPS. And uses Apple’s proprietary cable. A usb cable would be able to charge and connect to a computer just fine.

It does have a standard headphone jack which is cool though.

When a later version comes with 3G, I hope you can stream your media from the appleTV. Also, it would be nice if it had an isight on the front to make video calls.

By: flowolf

flowolf — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:42:18 +0000

apple can’t develop a phone that everyone would wish for. no one can.
there is no perfect phone or device.

i don’t think the internetdevice part is meant to be used with edge. i think therefore you should use the built in wifi.
to send mail with photos in it is not quite funny either over gsm or edge.

and yes i can’t wait to get my hand on one either. and i have to wait untill the end of the year.

greets from austria

By: jonass

jonass — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:22:26 +0000

although courrently i am not using it currently, my next (smart-)phone should have umts. afaik iPhone is not a umts device

By: Sören Nils 'chucker' Kuklau

Sören Nils 'chucker' Kuklau — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:13:15 +0000

It should be noted that the amount of Megapixels hardly says anything about the actual resulting photos. A 2 Megapixel camera with a good lens can easily beat a 5 Megapixel one with a mediocre lens.

I really hope they’ll reconsider on the lack of SDK.