Category: iPhone

iPhone Watch

~ rbonini

Lets see what iPhone news I can find this morning.

Although Jobs announced that no SDK would be release for the iPhone, thee are a number of web applications that have been announced.

Don Farber points out that Etelos has made sure that its CRM App runs on the iPhone.

Don says:

the ideal use for the iPhone and Etelos is “listening to iTunes while sending out a group message to your prospects while riding a ferry across Puget Sound.”

Ajaxian points us to a list of iPhone Apps that is already exhaustive.

Mary  Jo Foley has the scoop that Exchange and the iPhone will play nicely. This is an obvious move for Microsoft as it wants to ensure the widest  possible distribution of Exchange ( Even if Mitch Kapor doesn’t like it and is building a replacement 🙂 , but I digress)

Continuing the speculation over iPhone licensing, Don MacAskill complains loudly that there are no corporate licensing terms for the iPhone.

He says:

I’m so bummed. We’ve got our sleeping bags ready to go so we can get iPhones for the SmugMuggers. We even have SmugMuggers who flew in from out of town so they could join the party on University Avenue (click that link, it’s worth it). Like most companies, we have a corporate plan with AT&T so we can share minutes, save money, etc etc.

They won’t sell us iPhones. Not one phone, not twenty phones. For any price. At all. Neither will Apple.

 

Which is really strange. Apple and AT&T should be trying to get as many people as possible to get an iPhone. On the other hand, as one of Don’s commenters points out,  AT&T could be waiting for the semi-religious demand to die down before coming out with a business offering. It make sense to get the phone out to the masses.

Talking of an iPhone SDK, Simon Brocklehurst says :

As I’ve said before,  iPhone will be an incredible device to develop applications for; and, Apple simply won’t be able to develop all the great new applications themsleves.  Neither will Apple have the bandwidth to build one-to-one relationships with many software development companies in ways that make the economics work.   So, Apple will need to come up with ways of helping any developer to build great native applications for iPhone.

Scoble comments in Don’s post and asks if anyone is brings a generator to charge everyone’s devices  while they wait in line 🙂

This is the smallest subset of iPhone news available. Just a few things I found interesting. More as the news comes in.

iPhone Addiction Help

~ rbonini

Steve Rubel passes on this hilarious collection of advice for people with iPhone-on-the-brain .

Get a black light poster of Mr. Jobs. Put it up in your bedroom. Close your eyes and chant softly: “Oh Steve, all-powerful maker of the most beautiful iPhone, please send me my wonderful gadget. Please send it, Steve. Please send it now.”

If the poster actually responds, you’re in deep trouble. If your room remains silent, you know you have the mental health to wait at least one more day.

Since I’m in the UK, I’ve given up all hope of even seeing the iPhone until late next year.

ET iPhone Home

~ rbonini

 I’ve been wondering exactly what Apple have been thinking. Yep, another smart phone to look at. I’ve no doubt that people will look due to the  iPod halo around Apple. And I’ve no doubt when it comes to quality owing, to the reputation of his Steveness.

There are however a few disturbing things about it. Robert Scoble:

I was much more excited about the iPhone yesterday than I am today. Why? Cause reality is setting in. This thing is not as good as it seems. Paul Kedrosky has the details. He forgot a few things (he lists five):

6) Battery is only two hours up to five hours and is not replaceable (if you play video). UPDATE: sorry for getting that wrong, but tons of people, including some Mac journalists told me it’d only get two hours in video playback mode. Watch a video and your battery is dead. Now your cell phone is dead too. So, you won’t want to watch a video on a plane flight with this thing like you would with your iPod.
7) It’s Cingular only and GSM. That automatically keeps more than half of Americans from considering this and for the rest of the world? They are laughing about the iPhone now.
8) The camera sucks. It’s a 2megapixel device without flash, without zoom. Nokia’s newest cameras blow this one away.
9) No GPS. For a $600 device that really, really, really sucks.

Scobe is right about the Nokia phones being way better. I just got a Nokia N73. And it really rocks. Its tons better than the iPhone, from what I’ve heard about it.  The touchpad? Please. I mean I’d rather have keys that you can actually touch rather than a touchpad any day of the week.

Steve’s joy might be premature after Cisco sued Apple for trademark infringment.  Yep, another blog to add to my blogroll. The issue is one of principle. Not that principle is a very common thing in business.  It seems that what apple did is the business version of pie in the face, except that nobody is laughing. Can Apple shrug this one off? Possibly. Trademark cases can take quite a while.

One gets the impression that Apple is trying to  cash in as much as possible on the popularity of the iPod. Cue European Competition Comission  involvment and 600 million euro fines.