--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 9, 2007, at 4:58 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > >> > >> Steve Job's announced earlier today. > >> > >> The iPhone > >> > >> "This is a day I've been looking forward to for two and a half > >> years," said Jobs. "Every once in a while a revolutionary product > >> comes along that changes everything." > > [snip] > > > > I don't doubt that the iPhone may be a truly great smartphone-class > > handset, but with the vast majority of the people I see using small > > clamshell phones, I just don't see people switching in droves to an > > expensive humongo clunker like that. > > > We'll see. It looks rather svelt to me for what is essentially an > iPod-PDA-phone. It will appeal to people who are into the iPod/vPod > and use a cell phone it would seem. > > I'm more impressed with the incredible new technologies in it. I > still loathe being interrupted by the ring of any phone while driving > or in public. It may be all the rage, but one I can live without. > What I'd really like is the same thing, sans phone, with at last > 10-20 gigs of storage space! IOW all I want an iPod I can surf on, > take pictures with, process them and email them on. It's interesting > to me that technology is already catching up to Star Trek The Next > Generation level technology. This is the best implementation of touch > screen tech I've yet in the market. >
That's what the iPhone IS, excpt it comes with a cell-phone connector AS WELL AS (as far as I can tell) a wifi connector. More accurately, it's a tiny Mac with a custom iTunes interface and a built-in cellphone.
