Will you remember where you were and what you were doing on June 29, 2007 at 6 p.m.? Will you be mowing the grass, eating dinner with your family, adding another riveting post on your blog, or will you be standing in line for your iPhone?
Yes the wait is over, the time has come, the pigs are flying, the campers are already in front of the stores, and apple is releasing their long awaited cell phone.
But will the iPhone live up to its expectations? I am going to say yes, for most people. For us techies, the phone may fall short, but for your normal, iPod using public, it could be the most amazing phone ever. Below is a short list of features, and I sure more features will be known with the phone is actually released.
iPod – The 3.5 inch wide screen will be amazing, much better than the iPod’s small screen. When you play a video clip, the orientation automatically changes to landscape. The visual album display will be much more fun to use then the standard list. I hope Apple will take some of the new iPod technology from the phone, to create actual next-generation iPods. The downside – no wireless downloads from iTunes.
Visual Voicemail — I really love this feature. Now you can view a listing of your voicemail messages and choose the ones you want to listen to, instead of listening to all 25 message to get to the one you really care about.
Wi-Fi — this always makes things better, why use At&T’s, no so hot, internet connection, when high-speed broadband can be use via wi-fi, at Krystals. Yumm, I want my double-cheese Krystal and my fantasy football. Now I am getting hungry.
Battery Life — Talk Time: Up to 8 hours; Standby time: Up to 250 hours; Internet Use: Up to 6 hours; Video playback: Up to 7 hours; Audio playback: Up to 24 hours — That sounds great, but who knows once you start doing these things at the same time how long will the battery really last?
Internet — I do like what I have seen about the Internet on the iPhone. It looks like the Internet is suppose to look like, not some crappy scaled-down text version. Al Gore will be so proud. And what about the streaming YouTube ability? Who doesn’t love a good YouTube video?
Business Applications – I keep hearing people complain that the iPhone will not be business-friendly like the blackberry, or their pda. My answer; Apple is not targeting the business community with the iPhone. I think their target is going to be the iPod users; moms, college students, high school students, non-technical people. It will be more for entertainment, then calculating stocks or keeping inventory.
In closing, the iPhone is about to make cell phone history. It has raised the bar for the simple flip phones. I hate that the iPhone will only be available with At&t, because I have Verizon, dang Verizon, but maybe the second-generation iPhones will be opened to other networks. Or maybe Apple will launch an iPod / PDA device, an iPhone without the phone (I would buy that..).
For more info on the iPhone check out Apples website at www.apple.com/iphone/
The show “Free Stuff” on G4TV will be giving away 6 iPhones on Friday. Go to www.g4tv.com/freestuff/ for more details.
