2007 June
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
by William
I’ve made a list of iPhone’s missing feature.
- No memory card slot
- No copy and paste
- No voice dialing
- No search for contacts
- No picture messaging (MMS)
- No sdk and software from 3rd parties
- The Safari on iPhone can’t handle Java or Flash
- No external battery
- Entering text is not as easy as advertised
- No 3G support, only edge
- Only AT&T
- Can’t use the phone as a modem
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
by William
- Bluetooth is ONLY good for connecting a headset. That’s it.
- There is no file browser on the device at all. Data must be organized (if at all) in the appropriate application.
- The camera is a simple application that has ONE button: the shutter. Pictures come out okay on the device, but nothing too fancy on a monitor, especially if it was an attempt at a macro shot.
- SIM card is damn near impossible to open, if at all. I didn’t look into it extensively.
- Web browser is slow, even over WLAN. Even the simple OneList web app that was created takes around 20 seconds to load over WLAN. You can not highlight, cut, copy, or paste and text from a website, and you can not save any images you find from a website either. The only nice thing about it is the tabbed browsing, which crashed on me when I went to Engadget and YouTube on two tabs. This is the only application that allows you to use the keyboard in landscape mode.
- The keyboard sucks. It gets slightly better after the iPhone “learns” you, as the employees said, but even then, it’s not a device you can use with one hand comfortably, much less without looking.
- You can only send one picture at a time in an email.
- No custom ringtones (yet, as we were being told) and the alert tones can not be changed whatsoever.
- The default ringtones are incredibly lame.
- The only form of customization outside of a lame default ringtone is the wallpaper, which you’ll only see when you need to unlock the device or when you get a phone call.
- “Picture pinching” or using two fingers to zoom on any content is certainly fun to play with, but not practical whatsoever. This operation depends solely on using the device with two hands.
- No document editor or native viewer. You can not store documents on the device to be viewed, they can only be viewed as attachments when they’re sent to your in an email.
- Visual voicemail is laggy and reacts about the same way as pushing the fast forward and rewind buttons on traditional voicemail systems. The only advantage is for those that get that many voicemail messages a day that they need to sort them according to priority.
- NO games. None.
- No voice dialing.
- No speed dialing (which can be made up by the “quick list”, but getting to that quick list isn’t as fast as holding a single key on a real keypad).
- No video.
- No MMS.
- It’s still <4GB for $500 and <8GB for $600
- It only takes around 2 hours to explore every menu without any options for expandability except to scrounge around for new web apps that will load slowly and nowhere near as smoothly as the native apps.
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
by William
You can watch watch the iPhone video reviews here.
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
by William
Today, Steve Jobs is going to give a town hall meeting to Apple employees.
From: Steve Jobs
Date: June 27, 2007 1:47:55 PM PDT
To: XXXXXX
Subject: Town Hall Meeting Tomorrow
Team,
We’re launching the most revolutionary and exciting product in Apple’s history this Friday. And given Apple’s legacy of breakthrough products, that’s saying a lot.
I’d like to get together and share my thoughts about this amazing moment for our company. So please join me for a company-wide communications meeting tomorrow, Thursday, at 11:00AM in Town Hall.
This meeting will also be broadcast to other Apple campus locations. Please check XXXXXX for details.
See you there,
Steve
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
by William
The Apple Store released new information:
- All 164 Apple retail stores will close at 2pm and reopen at 6pm until midnight on the 29th.
- 2 iPhone’s per person max.
- First come, first serve basis.
- Free iPhone training workshops will begin Saturday morning at all Apple retail stores.
- Apple’s online store will also begin taking orders at 6pm PDT on the 29th. Free shipping.
- So you don’t get caught out making a disappointing trip, Apple is also providing an on-line tool to check the iPhone availability at your local Apple store. Good thing, we think you’re going to need it.
“Apple retail stores will be closed on June 29 from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. to get ready for the premiere of iPhone. We’ll open the doors again at 6:00 p.m., when you can be one of the first to see, try, and buy the iPhone. Be sure to arrive early — iPhone is available on a first-come, first-served basis.”
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
by William
At&t has limited the iphone to one per person. Read below.
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
by William
This is an updated version of the iPhone specs
Size and weight
- Height: 4.5 inches (115 mm)
- Width: 2.4 inches (61 mm)
- Depth: 0.46 inch (11.6 mm)
- Weight: 4.8 ounces (135 grams)
Dimensions
In the box
- iPhone
- Stereo Headset
- Dock
- Dock Connector to USB Cable
- USB Power Adapter
- Documentation
- Cleaning/polishing cloth
Capacity
Display
- 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen multi-touch display
- 480-by-320-pixel resolution at 160 dpi
- Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously
Operating system
GSM
- Quad-band (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
Wireless data
- Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
- EDGE
- Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
Camera
Audio
- Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
- Audio formats supported: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 1, 2, and 3), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV
Video
- Video formats supported: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 768 Kbps, 320 by 240 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
Headphones
- Stereo earphones with built-in microphone
- Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
- Impedance: 32 ohms
Mac system requirements
- Mac computer with USB 2.0 port
- Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later
- iTunes 7.3 or later
Windows system requirements
- PC with USB 2.0 port
- Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise, or Ultimate Edition; or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later
- iTunes 7.3 or later
Environmental requirements
- Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C)
- Nonoperating temperature: -4° to 113° F (-20° to 45° C)
- Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
- Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)
Input and output
- iPhone
- 30-pin dock connector
- 3.5-mm stereo headphone minijack
- iPhone Dock
- Dock connector
Power and battery
- Built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery
- Talk time: Up to 8 hours2iPhone on Dock
- Standby time: Up to 250 hours3
- Internet use: Up to 6 hours4
- Video playback: Up to 7 hours5
- Audio playback: Up to 24 hours6
All information obtained from Apple.com
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