Apple iPhone

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# Price: $499 4GB. $599 8GB.
# Ships June. Intro’d early because the FCC would’ve intro’d it once they approved the device anyway.
# 2 Year contract. Cingular. Unique partnership because of advanced technologies (like Visual Voicemail), will be selling both through Apple and Cingular stores

10:45 PT. Price: $499 4GB. $599 8GB. Ships June. (He starts by comparing it to other devices.) iPod: $199. Smartphone $299. iPhone: Video, widescreen, multi-touch, wi-fi, Safari, HTML email, Cover Flow - “we thought long and hard about it…”

10:45 PT. Accessories Accessories will include stereo headphones (like those for the iPod) with a tiny microphone built in, a bluetooth headseat (incredibly small), automatically pairs with the iPHone. Battery: 5 hours talk/video browsing, 16 hours playback of audio. It’s all “High Technology-advancing the state of the art.” Low power, OS X miniaturization, advance sensors, desktop class applications, widescreen video iPod. “We’ve been innovating like crazy for the last few years on this,” Apple has 200+ patents. The iPhone: “having your life in your pocket”



Steve Jobs just dropped a bombshell on the audience attending his Macworld Keynote Address. Jobs at first announced the product as three separate products; a widescreen video iPod, a phone, and a mobile internet communicator. This was exciting enough, but I'm sure I'm not the only person who was a bit disappointed to think about carrying three devices. According to Laurie who is listening to the feed from the expo floor, the crowd went absolutely wild at this announcement.

The iPhone will use a revolutionary interface called MultiTouch, first seen in Apple patent filings over a year ago. The iPhone will run OS X, and be capable of running desktop-class applications.

The Nitty Gritty:

• Single front button.
• 3.5 inch widescreen display featuring the highest pixel density ever shipped in a portable device.
• 2 megapixel camera.
• iPod dock.
• Proximity sensor which switches between modes and screen orientation based on how a user holds it.
• 11.6 mm thick.
• Syncs with iTunes
• GSM/EDGE
• Wifi
• Bluetooth
• Cinglar only.
• Visual voicemail - shows a list of your voicemails like you see a list of emails.
• Error correcting on-screen keyboard.
• Gestural interface
• Mail.
• Safari.
• Google Maps.
• Widgets.
• Switches seamlessly between EDGE and WiFi.
• Free Yahoo! IMAP email to all iPhone customs.
• GPS
• 5 hour video battery life.
• 16 hour audio battery life.
  

The 4GB costs $499 and the 8GB $599 (includes a 2 year contract). It is shipping in June.