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mzkhadir

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9:42am - "Well today, we're introducing THREE revolutionary new products. The first one is a widescreen ipod with touch controls" The crowd goes wild. "The second is a revolutinoary new mobile phone."

9:43am - "And the third is a breakthrough internet communications device." Tepid response on that last one, but he almost got a standing ovation on the phone.

"An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator. An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator.... these are NOT three separate devices!"

"And we are calling it iPhone!"
 
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Originally posted by: Kaido
Widescreen iPod and Mobile Phone announced! :D

Yay! It might be time for me to upgrade from my first-gen 10GB iPod!

EDIT: D'oh! I don't want an iPhone - I want a WS touchscreen iPod. Grrrrrrrr . . .
 

Kaido

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Originally posted by: UlricT
gaaah... whats the price??? when we gonna get it?

I know, right? This is like watching "24" when it's airing rather than after the season finishes on DVD...the suspense is killing me! :D
 

dartworth

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9:47am - "The problem is really in the bottom 40% -- keyboards that are there whether you need them or not. They have control buttons that are fixed in plastic. Every app wants a different button. You can't add new buttons. How do you solve this problem? We solved this problem -- we solved it in computers 20 years ago. A bitmap screen that can display anything we want -- with a pointing device."

"So how are we going to take this to a mobile device? Get rid of all the buttons, and just make a giant screen. So how are we going to communicate? We're going to use a stylus -- no. Who wants a stylus?? Yuck!"

9:48am - "So let's not use a stylus, we're going to use the best pointing device in the world -- our fingers. We have invented a new technology called multi-tuch. It works like magic, you don't need a stylus, far more accurate than any interface ever shipped, it ignores touches, mutli-finger gestures, and BOY have we patented it!
 

herkulease

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Originally posted by: UlricT
Originally posted by: herkulease
iphone, didn't cisco already copyright/trademark that?

Linksys brought out an iPhone last month....

Yeah I know that, just that linksys is now owned by cisco. I figure cisco would do the filing. whatever.

isn't that term already owned by someone else?
 

dartworth

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9:52 - "The third thing -- I want to talk a little about design. We've designed something wonderful." 3.5-inch screen, highest resolution screen we've ever shipped, 160ppi. There's only one button, the "home" button.

"It's really thin, thinner than any smartphone. 11.6mm, thinner than the Q and the BlackJack, all of them. Ring and silent, volume up and down."

9:53am - "We have a 2 megapixel camera built right in, let's take a look at the top. A headset jack, 3.5mm, SIM tray, and a sleep-wake switch. Let's look at the bottom, we've got a speaker, mic input, and an iPod connector."
 

ElFenix

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is it wifi only?

edit: nope, gsm

god i hate gsm
 

dartworth

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9:54am - We've also got some stuff you can't see -- 3 advanced sensors. It's got a proximity sensor, bring the iPhone to your ear and your display shuts off and toushccreen shuts down. Ambient light sensor -- adjusts brightness, saves power. Third thing is an accellerometer, it can tell whether you're in landscape and portraid. Let's turn it on."

Cingular.
 

Kaido

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The dude who created Cover Flow must be rolling in it now...in iTunes AND the iPhone...I remember when it was a standalone program.
 

NakaNaka

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Originally posted by: herkulease
Originally posted by: UlricT
Originally posted by: herkulease
iphone, didn't cisco already copyright/trademark that?

Linksys brought out an iPhone last month....

Yeah I know that, just that linksys is now owned by cisco. I figure cisco would do the filing. whatever.

isn't that term already owned by someone else?

Apple's got plenty of lawyers. I'm sure they worked something out.
 

ElFenix

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whoa, beatles. can't get beatles on itunes, can you?



 

dartworth

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9:57am - "Here's the home screen -- simple icons. Push this icon -- boom, I'm in the iPod. How do i scroll through my list of artists? I just take my finger and I just scroll." Loud cheers, people are starting to lose it a little. He's picked the Beatles... a sign of things to come?

9:58am - Everything is totally touch, big shiny icons. "I turn my unit landscape mode, and look what happens! "it goes into coverflow... not the fastest scrolling. We wouldn't exactly say it scrolls like butter -- but close.
 

UlricT

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Originally posted by: ElFenix
is it wifi only?

edit: nope, gsm

god i hate gsm

??? Why??? With this, you can use any service provider....

/EDIT: D'OH! Just read about the cingular thing. Hopefully they unlock it for the rest of the world soon!!