Mobile web! Mobile web! Cute little mobile applications! Cute little mobile WEB applications are on their way! Finally. Perhaps I am a bit single-minded right now.
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Matt Hoult
My favorite part feature is probably the visual voicemail. Don’t be confused by my spelling, I’m from the UK and we have the longest messages to go through before we hear the voicemail (”Welcome to the [carrier] answerphone, you have [#] new messages, to listen to the first message, press 1. The first message was left on Wednesday, January 20th at 11:14 PM, by telephone number 0…7…BEEEP!”) which is costly, slow and annoying.
Sadly it’s unknown at this time if the UK carriers will support this feature as it’s not just the device (viz. handset), but “server-side” also.
When Google finally provides free, “every-square-inch-of-the-plant”, wireless, high-speed internet access via any medium for everyone I guess Brits will start to find the web apps normal, otherwise it’s still looking like I’ll have to move to the US permanently just to use my phone. Don’t suppose you know anyone with a vacancy do you Leah?
Tal Aviram
Although it looks cooler than the PPC “smartphones” (Windows Mobile…)
and even though the webpages demonstrated looks really well compared to what I’ve seen so far, It is kinda “apple” limited/capped.
- Mobile Web?
Correct me if I’m wrong but it doesn’t support Flash or Javascript.
- Mobile (web) Applications?
Again, all the cool web 2.0 features are based on some user code / some server code.
so it’s very limited…
- Applications?
Apple confirmed… only Apple apps. so no skype. no IM services, no nice apps from small developer. it might be more reliable phones - but much more featureless.
- Apple Product Capping
Batteries: We can live with that but some extensive user would like to have 2 batteries on the road. making internal battery isn’t that good for cell phone.
Memory: Imagine the future, the year is 2010, suddenly there are 16GB flash chips (and even 32GB) the “all new” iPod videonano with 32GB is out. all the other Smartphone users bought an MicroSD or other flash card with 16GB. and you…
Limited by soldered 8GB chip.
I know nothing is future proof but it seems the future designs are based on upgrading all the time instead of keeping our reliable products.
2 off-topics:
- My Nokia 3200. it’s not that modern. it has no BT, but….
It has a flashlight!!!! the greatest thing I had on a phone ever (imagine you going down-stairs and suddenly the lights goes down)
- My (ahmm my father’s) iPod 3G.
I had it until I went with 8GB nano (I use it while running on the shore) it is 4 years old. 30GB and… it works GREAT! my father loves it. just need to get a new battery pack for it… (it’s very weak those days)
Leah Culver
Matt,
Yes, the voicemail part is sweet. Oh, trust me, the voicemail thing is just as slow in the US. It seems so odd that people can talk faster than they can write but they read faster than others can speak.
And the word from San Francisco is that Google isn’t doing any all-over wifi anytime soon.
Tal,
I remember when web browsers on desktop computers didn’t support Flash or JavaScript. I was even a web designer then (I’m older than I look). I agree that the iPhone is not the end-all of phones. The idea is that it’s increasing the awareness that mobile is a viable platform for software developers, independent of the hardware manufacturers.
And quite offtopic, my keychain has a flashlight and a bottle opener. I probably use the bottle opener more. I wish my phone had a bottle opener.
John Doe
Every phone comes with a flashlight now; it’s called the screen. It has saved me from blackouts and ghosts many a time (You know, because ghosts don’t like light). I bet Jobs is already working on a fourth gen iPhone for next month, which will come with the iBooze bottle opener. As for upgrading Apple products, I will not upgrade my third gen iPod until it falls apart or they make a video iPod that I can hook up to my TV and works like a portable DVR.
Malcolm
When is the iphone coming out? I am really excited to try it and see how it stacks up. I am really excited to use it and see how functional it is, especially for web browsing on the go. Does anyone know if the are releasing different sized iphones? Will there be an iphone 80gb? I am hoping that there is, and if not, that some one far more clever than I will figure out how to pop it open and throw in a mondo mega huge capacity micro drive.
MikeCa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone
http://www.apple.com/iphone/
Allan Drake
I was hoping for it to be a PSP killer. Then I could have my snacks & eat them too.