Blah, Blah, Blah iPhone. (not even going to link to it, not going to give free promotion to a company that would sue me if I posted this a week ago)
Don't get me wrong. Yes it is a really cool device but I doubt it will replace my Blackberry 7290 for these reasons:
- The battery on my blackberry lasts a week
- I don’t need to sync it. EVER
- I drop it all the time and I don’t worry about it
Somehow I don’t think that the iPhone will meet these standards. I have considered buying a Sony Mylo, Joanna has one, but I think that the iPhone could be a much better replacement for that.
Wi-Fi, OSX, Safari & plays videos!! Cooool! However, who knows how much this thing would be without a carrier or even if it is possible to buy one without a carrier.
I think what is more interesting about this whole kafuffle is all of the really neat posts that have happened because of the hype.
Slashdot posted a CNN article on how apple kept the project secret for TWO+ Years!! I think that is more impressive then the device :-o
Kottke.org posted some awesome photos of the cardboard prototype they made and then compared it to other devices. This is so great because it shows how fast you can create a prototype to conduct a study on a hardware device. Man making hardware would be cool, software is too insubstantial (1s & 0s), maybe I need to go back to school.
The IxDA list has blown up over this thing. One comment by Robert Barlow-Busch I found was particular insightful and yet obvious.
Lovin' a lot of things about the iPhone. But something I'm sure we'll miss is the tactile feel of buttons under our fingers. Being able to feel the buttons means we don't need to pay *quite* as much attention visually when, say, dialing a number.
I remembered that is completely true because I bought a Bluetooth Keyboard, that I saw on CSI Miami (Windows Media Link), for my Blackberry. This keyboard was a laser projected out of a little obelisk (how ACC 2001).
Now the problem was that even though it was hella cool you were always looking at the keys as you typed, which was even less efficient then using my Blackberry keyboard because at least I had some muscle memory of where they keys were.
I hope that apple or third party vendors come out with a decent keyboard or maybe an iPhone with out the Phone part :-)
[tags]iPhone, Apple, IxD[/tags]
