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With an iPhone here and an iPhone there
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
All together now, kids, "Old McSteve Jobs had a farm, e-i-e-i-o. And on his farm he had an...iPhone?" How's that again? I thought we already had an iPhone.
I guess the market is going to support two iPhones, because the people who own the trademark "iPhone" aren't taking legal action for trademark infringement. In point of fact, they seem pretty confident that their people and Apple's people are on the verge of hashing out a shared custody agreement that everyone can live with. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
Especially in light of the conspicuous non-mention of voip internet phone support. Some people think Apple's betting that if their product is sufficiently different from the original iPhone, there won't be any quibble over trademark infringement.
At any rate, Apple's version of the iPhone looks to be nearly everything the competition was afraid of; let's just hope voip's not the odd man out, here:
- Supports multiple wireless protocols, including GSM, 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 and EDGE (Cingular's proprietary data network).
- 2.0 megapixel camera
- 4 or 8 GB capacity
- Big screen iPod
- Safari web browser that displays web pages as they were meant to be seen
- Google Maps
- Helpful phone-top widgets that give one-touch access to weather info, stocks and more
- An Enterprise worthy touch screen user interface
- Full QWERTY "smartware" keyboard that automatically corrects common errors
- OS X
In keeping with the bleeding edge futuristic theme, they've also put some really cool sensors in the phone that you don't exactly need but they really make for a seamless experience:
- Accelerometer: it tells when you've turned the phone from portrait to landscape mode and it will rotate the display accordingly.
- Proximity sensor: When you put the iPhone to your ear, it automagically puts the display/user interface into standby mode, so you don't accidentally face dial the inlaws.
- Light sensor: automagically adjusts the display, relative to the ambient lighting.
While I wasn't lucky enough to actually touch one in real life, I did browse around Apple's promo material and I have to admit...i can't wait till this thing hits the shelves. All I want to know is--does this phone make me look like a fanboy? No wait--don't answer that; I don't even want to know.
