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iPhone?. Transcript This is Leo Notenboom for askleo.info. Unless you've been living under a rock of late, you know that Apple's new iPhone is set to be released this week. Let me tell you why I think it's incredibly cool. And why I'm not going to get one. The iPhone is the next logical step in an evolution that's turning the lowly telephone into the center of your wireless digital life. True to Apple's strengths, the design is cool and the user interface - at least as shown in the demonstrations - is stunning. The iPhone could perhaps be the closest thing we've seen yet to a mainstream computer in your pocket. With a full featured web browser, email, widgets, and a bunch of other doodads I'm sure, it's clearly going to be an incredibly lucrative device. But I'm not getting one. There are a couple of deal killers for me:
In the mean time, the good news is that the iPhone is bound to stimulate the market: Apple's innovations aren't going to go unanswered. I expect to see some exciting new phones from the traditional major mobile phone makers. In fact, I believe that may already have begun. Maybe they'll let me use my current carrier. And maybe they'll let me use my phone as a modem for my laptop. I'd love to hear what you think. Visit askleo.info and enter 11614 in the go to article number box to access the show notes, the transcript and to leave me a comment. While you're there, browse over 1,200 technical questions and answers on the site. Till next time, I'm Leo Notenboom, for askleo.info. • Recent Comments
I totally agree about using your phone to connect to the Internet. My first plan (Verizon) allowed that. My second plan (Cingular/ATT) makes it much more expensive. I end up borrowing a Sprint card for my laptop when I travel. This just seems wrong. Posted by: Don Colton at June 23, 2007 08:47 PMHow about reasons number 4 and 5... 4: It's amazingly expensive. The difference in price between it and a Blackberry or Palm device is enough to pay for that extra data plan for a year. 5: Forgetting that AT&T has one of the worst levels of high speed data coverage (compared to Verizon, T-Mobile, or Sprint), even if you're in an area where their high speed service is available, the iPhone can't use it. So it displays web pages really well, but downloads them really slow. - Greg I'm sure that once you break that touch screen or it gets scratched to hell, protector or no protector, it will cost an arm and a leg to replace the screen. Posted by: Aaron at June 25, 2007 08:42 PMJust perfect! Thank you Posted by: Behnam at June 29, 2007 02:57 AM6: It looks like one-hand operation would be all but impossible. All the views in the ads show a hand holding it while another hand is scrolling, or it's simply floating in mid-air while doing the scrolling. Posted by: tom7601 at June 30, 2007 07:20 AMThis overpriced, inadequate piece of "technology" seems to be designed for teenagers or those just out of that age range. I LOVE technology, but the cell phone giants still can't get me decent cell phone connections, (at home, where I am, sometimes), 6 miles off the expressway an hour from Detroit, MI. Posted by: Ilona Stewart at July 1, 2007 08:39 AMWhile there we're people standing in line and camping out-strange people- the next day there were no lines and people just walked in and bought one. Post a comment on "All hail ... the iPhone?":
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