the email rocks!

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/j47d52oo/event/

The email is slick. Very much, if not exactly like, OS X Mail. Right down to the little red circles with numbers showing new mail on the Mail icon. It looks like SMS is tied into iChat somehow, too.

According to Pogue's NYT blog, some apps on the iPhone aren't ready yet, so that's likely why they aren't letting people play with them. Too much chance of coming across an unimplemented feature and crashing the phone or something, perhaps.

I hope to spawn an iPhone in my house come June or August.

Web browsing (and dowloading mail) by phone is prohibitively expensive - to do so with the iPhone (due to its graphic nature) means you will have to have the "unlimited" data plan costing $45 to $60 per month (yes thats $550 t0 $700 per year). That plus the cost of this phone and the fact it is only going to be available to GSM carriers means this phone will have a tough time catching up to Blackberry and TREO much less beating them.

If you surf only on wifi you pay no data bills. Where I live wifi is almost every where.

Perhaps, but I wonder if the Wi-Fi features will allow people to use Wi-Fi for free.

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Web browsing (and dowloading mail) by phone is prohibitively expensive - to do so with the iPhone (due to its graphic nature) means you will have to have the "unlimited" data plan costing $45 to $60 per month (yes thats $550 t0 $700 per year). That plus the cost of this phone and the fact it is only going to be available to GSM carriers means this phone will have a tough time catching up to Blackberry and TREO much less beating them.

I attended the show today and was very impressed both with the features of the iPhone and the physical dimensions of the display model. It is much thinner than I thought it would be.

I would have to change cell service, I will wait a while and see if other services join in

The show was packed, lots of people, lots of vendors.

Edison Carter

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Web browsing (and dowloading mail) by phone is prohibitively expensive - to do so with the iPhone (due to its graphic nature) means you will have to have the "unlimited" data plan costing $45 to $60 per month (yes thats $550 t0 $700 per year). That plus the cost of this phone and the fact it is only going to be available to GSM carriers means this phone will have a tough time catching up to Blackberry and TREO much less beating them.

How? The Treo costs the same per month. Remember that they're not aiming for the great majority of cell phone users, but the top 5% or less. For those people, $600+ per year is another business expense. It's less than a single business trip.

Another thing to consider is what this will do to the other manufacturers. The upper end users will no longer be satisfied with the user interface of the Treo and its clones. In the same way, Ford was forced to offer hybrid cars--it had to license the technology from Toyota, as it had none of its own.

Last, think about the iPod. The original 5GB iPod was $399 in 2001. At 3% average inflation, that would be $462 in current dollars. Sort of puts things in perspective, doesn't it?

Cingular has flexibility with their mobiole data plans and will likely be offering it at a modified iphone rate once these phones hit the marketplace. I left Cingular last year to get a MS Smartphone offered by Sprint. When I told them that the unlimited EVDO data from Sprint was only $15.00/month, they offered to match it. It is likely that inorder to coax over customers, they will do a special pricing deal for the iPhone customers...but time will tell. Either way, I will likely be purchasing one once the Rev B units ship. I DO wish they were offering it on Sprint's CDMA/EVDO network...MUCH faster than EDGE.

iPhones are like women’s breasts: Revealing just a little bit, but generally keeping them put away and untouchable by the average Joe, is titillating and elevates them as objects of desire.

Boy, you really need to get laid.

Who else but Apple could release an electronic gadget that has people talking about women's breasts, spawning, and getting laid?

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Who else but Apple could release an electronic gadget that has people talking about women's breasts, spawning, and getting laid?

HP, IBM, Sony, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Dell... just to name a few....

but that goofy looking guy with the dumbfounded expression directly behind the iPhone....that's me.... my buddy Chuck is to the left (my right).

I didn't even realize my picture was being taken, truth is we were so much in awe that camera flashes were the least noticed thing that day. The jaw-drop expression could be found on almost every face surrounding that display. Looking back at this (a month later) I am still blown away by the iPhone. It truly is an object of desire...