A lot of people were really puzzled about the iPhone not having 3G as of presstime. However, being a Mac observer since 2002, I can safely say this is another Apple "strategy". Apple is very fond of creating its own niche market by looking for that elusive "killer app" that sets its products apart from all the rest. Sure, 3G is basically a standard in recent phone units from various manufacturers. It might have done away with 3G in favor of WiFi perhaps because target users will hook it up to their existing Mac PCs anyway using Bluetooth and/or download content directly from the internet using WiFi via Apple's Airport or any other available wireless access points. Perhaps they thought having 3G is redundant enough. Media file support? I think I can safely say that any media file that OS X supports is supported within iPhone.
The killer features would be its embedded OS X, gargantuan storage (8Gb) by mobile standards, the Safari browser inside the phone unit (you can view websites like you view it on a desktop) , the super clear hi-res display, and of course the Multi-Touch technology of the touch screen which is intelligent enough to discern random touches versus deliberate finger stroke commands. And aside from that, it is ultra-slim. On 1/11/07, Zhadd La Plana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
too bad it aint got 3G, cant do over-the-air downloads from its iTunes store...
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