Hands on the iPhone, and History of iPhone?
When they showed him the screen they came up with, he got excited. So excited that he thought he had the beginnings of a new product.
And so, the iPhone was born. What is interesting is that around this time, rumors of an Apple tablet had reemerged. Whispers of an Apple Tablet project began to resurface in late 2002 and peaked prior to Macworld SF 2003. No tablet came, but the description was an 8-inch multimedia device running Mac OS X. It appears that these rumors were likely true and based on this project.
Time's author as well as David Pogue had some one-on-one time with the device, and provides these additional details and observations:
- Can't download songs directly from iTunes Store
- Can't sync iPhone with a computer wirelessly.
- "Web speed was OKnot great, but OK."
- "Apple went through numerous iterations of the glass surface, trying to find one thats not too slick or too rough, or that shows grease and fingerprints too much. "
- "It feels amazing in your hand"
- "Typing is difficult"
According to Engadget, the iPhone is not open to 3rd party development at this time. Only Apple is providing (built-in) applications for the device.
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Anyone else feel no wireless syncing is a letdown?
Interesting. Apple is a truly enigmatic company, I wonder where they'll go with iPhone in a few years time.
Anyone else feel no wireless syncing is a letdown?
I think they could always enable wireless synching later on -- maybe just for phone/contacts/calendar. 8GB of music over Bluetooth would take forever!!
Difficult to type doesn't sound promising. I suppose I could say the same of my Treo.
"Web speed was OK—not great, but OK."
I noticed this during the keynote, too. Does anyone else think that it loaded the web sites slower than they should over broadband internet?
Interesting. Apple is a truly enigmatic company, I wonder where they'll go with iPhone in a few years time.
Anyone else feel no wireless syncing is a letdown?
Indeed, I thought .mac integration would be THE highlight.
It's still leaps better than the other smartphones out as far as usability goes I would imagine...
Plus, typing on my E62 OR my treo, wasn't what I would call easy. and it takes some getting use to each device.
We'll see in 5 months, they have some time to tweak things.
I think they could always enable wireless synching later on -- maybe just for phone/contacts/calendar. 8GB of music over Bluetooth would take forever!!
Yeah, so it is a good think it has WiFi ;)
I noticed this during the keynote, too. Does anyone else think that it loaded the web sites slower than they should over broadband internet?
Perhaps the pipes were saturated by the audience trying to get live updates out of the auditorium. :p
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I noticed this during the keynote, too. Does anyone else think that it loaded the websites slower than it should over broadband internet?
It only has EDGE which would be a reason for slower speeds.
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