Fresh from AT&T, the company is sending out notification emails to anyone who subscribed to its iPhone news list, further confirming what we already knew. iPhone will be available starting 6:00pm June 29. What the email doesn't disclose is how or where to get one!!! The full contents of the email are enclosed below. iPhone arrives on June 29. iPhone features an amazing mobile...
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes (any man with a hyphenated name must know what he's talking about) over at ZDNET blogs posts his rebuttal to Dvorak's MarketWatch piece asserting that iPhone user will hate the on screen keyboard. Who is right? Find out in this weekend's cage match between Dvorak and Adrian-Evan-Jacob-Jingleheimer-Hughes, err..that other guy. Read
And this year's "things we say that come back to bite us right in the ass" award goes to Palm CEO Ed Colligan, who was interviewed back in November '06 during a Churchil Club event by the New York Time's John Markoff about his thoughts on Apple's secret development of a mobile phone device. Colligan proudly boasted... "PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to...
Wall Street Journal columnist, Walt "Uncle Walty" Mossberg says iPhone beats out the BlackJack and Palm's new Treo 750. High praise indeed coming from such an Apple shill unbiased product reviewer. "...But if you're in the market for a smart phone and can afford $499, you might want to wait until June for the Apple iPhone. The Apple entry is so full of promise that anyone buying a...
Carl Weinschenk from ITBusinessEdge calls the iPhone a "Milestone in Business Mobility". But can Apple really lure corporate customers with what is clearly a consumer play? I don't see that happening. iPhone is, by design, an entertainment device...not a business oriented mobile productivity tool like the Treo or Blackberry. It would be nice to see the IT world embrace such a lavish...
The National Post has published an interesting story about Apple's sudden appearance in the smartphone market, how its presence will impact all major players, notably Palm and RIM. For better or worse iPhone certainly forces both companies to rethink their product strategies and take software more serious, which hasn't been the case for RIM and Palm. Still, that doesn't mean iPhone...
ComputerWorld has posted a list of top questions that remain unanswered about iPhone. Things like...oh, I don't know...whether it will be offered unlocked, or whether battery life will suck. I know these questions are certainly on my mind. Read on. Update: Mike Cane blogged a few questions of his own.