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Apple iPhone(January 2007)Apple has announced its iPhone, it is 11.6 mm thin with a 480 x 320 touch screen display with multi touch support and a proximity sensor to turn off the screen. iPhone features a 2-megapixel camera, 4GB or 8GB storage, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and A2DP, WiFi that automatically engages when in range, and quad-band GSM radio with EDGE. It runs on OS X with support for Widgets, Google Maps, and Safari, and iTunes of course. Partnership with Yahoo, this allows all iPhone users to hook up with the IMAP email. Battery life, 5 hours for calls or video and 16 hours in music mode, standby mode has not been announced. The 4GB will be priced $499 while the 8GB priced $599 on two-year contract with Cingular in US. iPhone will be shipped Stateside in June, Europe in fourth quarter and Asia in 2008.Introducing iphoneiPhone combines three products ? a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with deskt

While everyone is sitting around waiting for the acclaimed Apple iPhone to be released months from now, the Chinese company Meizu has come up with a phone that is strikingly similar in appearance to the iPhone - the Meizu M8 PMP/Phone. From the design of the phone, to the style of the user interface, the M8 just screams iPhone wannabe. I guess we shouldn't be surprised though, this was bound to happen sooner or later. Chinese companies are known for ripping of US designs, and often times there is very little that the US company can do to prevent them from profiting off their designs.Some of the major differences the Meizu M8 has from theiPhone is a white case instead of black one, it runs off WinCE 6.0 instead of the Mac platform the iPhone runs off of, and it has a camera (which the iPhone does not). The dimensions of the Meizu M8 are 57x105x11.5mm. It includes a beautiful 3.3-inch (720x480 pixels) display, Bluetooth, a 3-megapixel camera, TV-out, line in/out, and video recording cap

This video is a few months old, but the iPhone isn’t out yet, so I figure it’s still timely. You’ll be amazed by all the uses the new iPhone will have to simplify your life. I had no idea it was a cheese grater or a hand grenade. What will Apple think of next?? Conan’s iPhone Commercial:

Samsung's Ultra Smart F700 mobile phone.SEOUL, South Korea ? Samsung plans to unveil a new mobile phone that features some of the sleek design and functions of Apple's iPhone.Samsung's Ultra Smart F700 will be exhibited at a Barcelona telecommunications show next week, Samsung spokeswoman Sonia Kim said. Mobile phone makers have been scrambling to match the iPhone, introduced last month by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The device, which will be available starting in June, marks the iPod and Macintosh computer maker's entry into the mobile phone business.The ultra-thin iPhone is controlled by touching the screen a large touch screen, plays music, surfs the Internet, and runs a version of the Mac OS X operating system, among other functions.Samsung said its new phone also has a full touch screen as well as a traditional key pad that slides out. The phone can also access the Internet, play music, take pictures, show videos, handle e-mail and share photos, said Samsung officials.Its processor

Rivals take aim at Apple's iPhoneStaff reporterMon, 12 Feb 2007Apple's iPhone hasn't even been launched yet and already rival companies are lining up services it hopes will knock it off its throne.British mobile music company Omnifone is one of the first to take aim at Apple's iPhone before its November release with the introduction of MusicStation, reports The Star Online.Music Station, which will be unveiled on Monday, is a new music service which will allow cellphone users to download new songs from a number of major music labels for a weekly fee of £1.99.Initially the service will only be available in Europe, but Omnifone has set up deals with 23 mobile networks around the world, including South Africa's Vodacom, and plans to bring the service to 690 million subscribers in 40 countries."MusicStation will give users of any music capable mobile phone the ability to legally access, download and enjoy an unlimited amount of music, from a global music catalogue supported by the mus

For most of us, having Steve Jobs' direct attention is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity (well, actually, it's a never-in-a-lifetime event for the overwhelming majority of the populace, but stay with us here). Stephen Colbert got his this week, introducing Viacom CEO Phillipe Dauman via video clip at D5. Jobs was, of course, a big player at D, and Colbert did his best to take advantage by suggesting that a gratis iPhone in his pocket -- followed by a mention on his show -- might be just the trick to spurring sales (notice that he's ogling an imaginary iPhone in this screen grab). We suspect the effort was for naught; iPhones are as scarce now as they've ever been, never mind the fact that the media has generated pretty much all the buzz Apple can handle free of charge. Might we suggest working a company that's a little less stingy with prerelease units, Stephen?read more | digg storyFor more logon to http://tipzntrikz.blogspot.com

Apple's tooting its own horn about some new spec upgrades to its imminent iPhone. No, it's not 3G, GPS or anything crazy like that, but we'll settle for a battery life upgrade anytime, and screen durability doesn't hurt neither. Apple claims that its preliminary estimates of 5 hours of talk time, internet use and video playback were a tad conservative, and the iPhone instead will be boasting of 8 hours of chatting, 6 hours of internet and 7 hours of video. Audio playback has been boosted from 16 to 24 hours, and standby is at a welcome 250 hours. Of course, Apple does have tendency to exaggerate slightly on the battery life front, but these are promising figures, and should manage to provide a day or two's worth of solid use out of the thing. On the screen side, Apple has upgraded the original plastic surface of the phone to some "optical-quality glass" to improve scratch resistance and clarity. Check after the break for a handy battery life chart

With the release of Apple's iPhone on June 29, IT managers are hustling to find ways to support the devices, anticipating the moment when the CEO walks in with one and demands, "Give me my corporate e-mail on this gizmo."Analysts and IT managers say the iPhone will be popular among their workers who buy them for consumer uses, but the devices will certainly challenge businesses because of the needed support for e-mail, iTunes songs and other applications. (For more perspective, read: The Coming War Over the iPhone.)For example, at communications conglomerate ABC in New York, the official policy, for now, is not to support the iPhone at all, but there will be some exceptions for top executives. "At this point, with a few exceptions, the iPhone is not a supported device, but for one or two ABC presidents, we'll make the walls move to allow it because we're in the communications business" and they will want to see iPhone's capabilities, said Jeff Plotkin, an engineer for broadcast ope

It's not just the sky-high expectations that make the iPhone launch such a tremendous risk for Apple. Even without them, the company might have a tough time as a new entrant into a market that consists of giant, entrenched competitors who together sell 1 billion phones a year. That's much different than the MP3 player industry, and when Apple introduced the iPod.Even for Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) , which has thrived on taking risks, the iPhone represents an audacious bet -- possibly its biggest ever.When the new smartphone hits store shelves June 29, the company will have a lot more on the line than the success or failure of one product.With a hit, Apple will revolutionize the mobile phone industry. It will cement its reputation for creating gadgets whose chic designs and ease of use are so compelling that consumers will pay more for them. Oh, and by the way, it will create a third, profitable and fast-growing business to add to the Mac and the iPod.A miss, however, could be catastrophic.

Carlos Gomez could be the recording industry's ideal mobile music customer.His phone is his music player of choice and he spends about $100 a month buying songs for it -- often on impulse after hearing a tune on his car radio.That's why he's not buying an iPhone.It's not that he doesn't want one. The 24-year-old office clerk is mesmerized by the look and feel of Apple Inc.'s uber-sleek new phone that's a combination cell phone, iPod media player and Web-browsing gadget. He particularly likes its touch-screen navigation.But Gomez says he won't buy the handset because users can't use it to buy and download music over a wireless network.Instead, iPhone owners will have to buy music via their computers and then download it to their phones, a process called side-loading."I'm not the type of person that likes to wait until I get home," Gomez said. "If I hear it, I want it there and then."The arrival of the iPhone on Friday has stoked optimism among some music company executives tha

CNET editors' take Heads exploded around the tech world today after Apple CEO Steve Jobs finally announced the long-awaited Apple iPhone during his Macworld 2007 keynote in San Francisco. The iPhone, as Jobs proudly dubbed the device to thunderous applause (take that Linksys), will be three devices in one: a cell phone, a wide-screen iPod with touch controls, and an Internet communications device. AT&T (formerly Cingular Wireless) is the lucky carrier (apparently the companies have patched up their relationship following the Motorola Rokr bust). We haven't gotten to hold an iPhone yet, but we're just as excited as the next person to finally write down our first thoughts, and we won't sleep until we get our hands on one. Check back near the product's June 29 release date for our full review. Availability Both Apple and AT&T stores will sell the phone starting on the release date, and the handset will also be available on Apple's Web site. It will not be sold on AT&T's site for th

The iPhone Matches Most of Its Hype Talk about hype. In the last six months, Apple?s iPhone has been the subject of 11,000 print articles, and it turns up about 69 million hits on Google. Cultists are camping out in front of Apple stores; bloggers call it the ?Jesus phone.? All of this before a single consumer has even touched the thing.As it turns out, much of the hype and some of the criticisms are justified. The iPhone is revolutionary; it?s flawed. It?s substance; it?s style. It does things no phone has ever done before; it lacks features found even on the most basic phones. Unless you?ve been in a sensory-deprivation tank for six months, you already know what the iPhone is: a tiny, gorgeous hand-held computer whose screen is a slab of touch-sensitive glass. The $500 and $600 models have 4 and 8 gigabytes of storage, respectively ? room for about 825 or 1,825 songs. (In each case, 700 megabytes is occupied by the phone?s software.) That?s a lot of money; then again, the price inclu

As several tipsters have pointed out, the recessed iPhone headphone port means that a lot of third party headphones don't work properly: we've tested a few models already (you can see the current list after the break), but maybe you can help us out and let us know which models work / don't work in the comments -- and yes, if you have to press down on the jack to get both channels to play sound, we count that as not working. You'll need to buy a $19 "TTY Adapter" if you want most third party headphones to function correctly, which sounds like a great business plan to us: just break an important device function, and sell the solution for fun and profit. For now, one of the few third party 'phones that do work are the Zune headphones.Read More

iPhone is a multimedia and Internet-enabled mobile phone by Apple, announced by company CEO Steve Jobs during the keynote at the Macworld Conference & Expo on January 9, 2007, that was released on June 29, 2007in the U.S.The iPhone's functions include those of a camera phone, a multimedia player and mobile phone. It also offers Internet services including e-mail, text messaging, web browsing, Visual Voicemail and local "Wi-Fi" connectivity. User input is accomplished via multi-touch screen with virtual keyboard and buttons. The iPhone is a 2.5G quad-band GSM phone, though Jobs mentioned in his keynote that Apple has a "plan to make 3G phones" in the future.According to Jobs, the current version was not designed for 3G due to greater battery consumption, size concerns and AT&T's still immature 3G network.The iPhone is available from the Apple Store and from AT&T Mobility, formerly Cingular Wireless, with a price of US$499 for the 4 GB model and US$599 for the 8 GB model, based on a tw

See I told ya!  It's worthwhile to wait for something hot to cool down, and Iphone is a perfect example.  Plus you never know something new may have a few bugs needed to be iron out before the boat can sail smoothly.  I remembered when the Iphone first came out, peoples were line up to pay 600 bucks for the darn thing, but as I read this article here, it seems the commotion has just begin to die down.