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Heaps of pics here.

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Posted Jan 9th 2007 12:45PM by Chris Ziegler
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Capping literally years of speculation on perhaps the most intensely followed unconfirmed product in Apple's history -- and that's saying a lot -- the iPhone has been announced today. Yeah, we said it: "iPhone," the name the entire free world had all but unanimously christened it from the time it'd been nothing more than a twinkle in Stevie J's eye (comments, Cisco?). Sweet, glorious specs of the 11.6 millimeter device (that's frickin' thin, by the way) include a 3.5-inch 480 x 320 touchscreen display with multi-touch support and a proximity sensor to turn off the sensor when it's close to your face, 2 megapixel cam, 4GB or 8 GB of storage, Bluetooth with EDR and A2DP, WiFi that automatically engages when in range, and quadband GSM radio with EDGE. Perhaps most amazingly, though, it somehow runs OS X with support for Widgets, Google Maps, and Safari, and iTunes (of course) with CoverFlow out of the gate. A partnership with Yahoo will allow all iPhone customers to hook up with free push IMAP email. Apple quotes 5 hours of battery life for talk or video, with a full 16 hours in music mode -- no word on standby time yet. In a twisted way, this is one rumor mill we're almost sad to see grind to a halt; after all, when is the next time we're going to have an opportunity to run this picture? The 4GB iPhone will go out the door in the US as a Cingular exclusive for $499 on a two-year contract, 8GB for $599. Ships Stateside in June, Europe in fourth quarter, Asia in 2008.

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Post by Ben »

The only problem is probably one of the iphones biggest assets, and that's it's big screen.

I wouldn't want to drop that in my pocket along with whatever else I keep in there at the same time, which could be key's/wallet etc
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Post by amba »

Quite the pretty. Looks like we'll be waiting a year, though.

Software, design- all great.

My main concern is it looks too 'delicate' to be my phone. The screen looks a bit like the PSP one and might be a fingerprint/ greasy face magnet.

It will be interesting to see the market- too funky for corporate types who currently use the Treo/ Blackberry; too expensive for teenagers once you add in the phone contract.
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Post by jahooley »

Fuck I want one of these! Now I won't have to get a normal video ipod.
Big ups for OSX and the connectivity to PC's, not just Mac's.
I like the SMS design, how it displays each text in order of being sent and received for each contact like a message window.
2 megapixel camera is decent...not that I use phone cameras often.
The battery life for music/video playback and browsing etc. is also pretty impressive. The standby life must be great.
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It has dethroned the PSP as the best looking piece of hardware ever. :drool:
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Not 3G = :fight
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Post by selfish »

i want this, but am kinda glad we have to wait a year (for both my contract to run out and the 1st gen problems to be well and truly over)

i'm keen, and the coverflow etc looks fucking awesome, check out the apple site about it all, i am keen as mustard for one of these

the only decision is 4 or 8 gb...
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Post by unfnknblvbl »

OK, pros and cons

Pros:
Hugefuckoff screen
OSX
Huge (in comparison) storage space

Cons:
Hugefuckoff screen
Size
no 3G
iTunes

Yeah, if it can only synch with iTunes, it can get fucked, unless Apple releases a version of iTunes that, you know, FUCKING WORKS PROPERLY ON WINDOWS?
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iTunes works properly for me.
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Post by mxlegend99 »

Yeah fuck iTunes. My sister got an iPod and i had to install it to put MP3's on it for her. It was really slow (to the point of feeling buggy and like it would freeze the PC up).

That's my only issue with this. I don't care about 3G, i don't mind the size of it since it is majority screen, the thing looks sexy, has huge amounts of storage space, a gorgeous looking operating system etc.

Wonder what one of these things outright will cost in Australia?
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mech wrote:iTunes works properly for me.
Yes but the majority of people don't enjoy being fucked up the arse.
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Post by mech »

Neither do I, doesn't stop iTunes working properly.

Yes it's slow, no it's not great, but it works.
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Post by selfish »

i used itunes on a pc for ages while i had my 3rd gen ipod and it worked great
a bit slow, but great otherwise
same with 7 on pcs in the house
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Post by unfnknblvbl »

anything that's as slow as iTunes can't be "working properly" PLus, I really really don't like the way it does stuff to my collection without fucking asking me.
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Post by mech »

Well turn that stuff off so that it doesn't mess with anything.

And it's not unusably slow. Runs fine on any machine I chuck it on to. It's certainly not as fast as Winamp, but what is? I've been using it for simplicity's sake with my iPod and I really don't find it that difficult to use. Plus it's got a nifty easy to use automation interface, so I've written an app to do all kinds of funky stuff with it.
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Post by Cardsy »

Another Itunes fan here ... I like it!!

Ipod + Itunes = perfect marriage of hardware and software.

Great cataloging, podcast functionality is great.

Something is seriously fucked up in the world at the moment ... I'm agreeing with Mech waaaay to often.

fOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE RESTORE THE BALANCE!!!
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mech wrote:Yes it's slow, no it's not great, but it works.
I'm amazed that you would settle for something that is inferior.
Many things work, but i want things to work well and fast.
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Post by westical »

mxlegend99 wrote:Wonder what one of these things outright will cost in Australia?
I reckon around a grand unlocked (if they ever sell them without contracts)
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Post by David Carney »

Yep, and I'm not going any lower than 8gig. I'd prefer more considering it'll be playing videos. I guess it would be enough for all of my music library that I listen to on a regular basis and then some. You'd have to be a bit more selective before piling movies on there like I have with my 60gig one.

If it works how it says it does and can eventually get down to a more reasonable price - then apple have most certainly changed the world with the most revolutionary evolution in ipods ever!

I wonder if and how that touch screen will be used for games. DS minus the buttons but developers could have creative work arounds for it. Haha I wonder if the accelerometer will be used for games. :lol:
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I'm waiting for a 2nd gen one with NextG/3G support and 5mp camera......

maybe....

nope but that would be sweet.
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Post by Twiztid Elf »

4th gen iPod and iTunes here. Couldn't be happier.
Never bought any DRM crud off their dumb store.

At first I was a bit uncomfortable because of the lack of control over the system the user has, but once I just let it go and went with the flow, it's been 100% fine.

I don't 'get' the hype over this iPhone business though. I don't want one. Looks stupid. Apple share price rocketing, yada, yada.... it doesn't make any sense to me. The product doesn't look any better than anything out there right now.

The MS info coming out of CES has me way more excited.
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$500 to $600 USD?

$30 contracts ahoy!
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Post by unfnknblvbl »

You'd think so, but that pricepoint is including the contract subsidy!
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Yeah,reading about Iphone today I'm actually more interested in what PocketPC will do.I like having Windows in my pocket.
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Cletus wrote:Yeah,reading about Iphone today I'm actually more interested in what PocketPC will do.I like having Windows in my pocket.
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