Meer: Apple iPhone's German Deal Is With T-Mobile | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | PaidContent.org | 2007-09-20 02:34:59
Today, the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) train made a stop in Berlin, where CEO Steve Jobs and T-Mobile executives officially announced what everyone had already expected: T-Mobile will be the exclusive distributor for the iPhone in Germany. As with the UK, the phone will come out on November 9; it will be priced at 399 euros including taxes. In today's exchange rates, this works out to $557, even more expensive than the UK price of 269 pounds ($536). There had been reports T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), would distribute the iPhone in four other markets in its 11-country footprint: Austria, Hungary, the Netherlands, and Hungary. This was not confirmed or denied today.
Steve Jobs reiterated Apple wants to sell 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008. But there is some skepticism about how Apple will fare in Europe, where a number of other strong handset brands are launching their newest devices. Wing-Yen Choi, an Amsterdam-based analyst at Theodoor Gilissen, speaking to Bloomberg: "IPhone is coming up against some strong European brands. Whether iPhone will succeed or not will depend a lot on how it's doing in Europe. I don't see Europeans sleeping in the streets to queue up for the phone.'' If the speculators get their hat trick right, Thursday will have an announcement from Orange and Apple covering distribution in France.
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Meer: Microsoft CEO Claims iPhone Will Be Bust | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Slashdot | 2007-05-01 18:18:17
Theaetetus writes "In an interview with USA Today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer claimed there is no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. The article also deals with Microsoft's friction with the Justice Department, friction with Google, and the profitability of MSN. 'No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get. In the case of music, Apple got out early. They were the first to really recognize that you couldn't just think about the device and all the pieces separately. Bravo. Credit that to Steve (Jobs) and Apple. They did a nice job. But it's not like we're at the end of the line of innovation that's going to come in the way people listen to music, watch videos, etc. I'll bet our ads will be less edgy. But my 85-year-old uncle probably will never own an iPod, and I hope we'll get him to own a Zune.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Meer: Apple iPhone: The Specs & Official Press Release | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Gizmodo | 2007-01-10 04:50:05
The full specs:
Screen size: 3.5 inches
Screen resolution: 320 by 480 at 160 ppi
Input method: Multi-touch
Operating system: OS X
Storage: 4GB or 8GB
html">GSM: Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)
Wireless data: Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + html">Bluetooth 2.0
Camera: 2.0 megapixels
Battery: Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing, Up to 16 hours Audio playback
Dimensions: 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches
Weight: 4.8 ounces / 135 grams
See the press release after the jumpApple Reinvents the Phone with iPhone
html">Apple Reinvents the Phone with iPhone
MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCOJanuary 9, 2007html">Apple® today introduced iPhone, combining three productsa revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod® with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, searching and mapsinto one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting users control iPhone with just their fingers. iPhone also ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, which completely redefines what users can do on their mobile phones.
iPhone is a revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone, said Steve Jobs, html">Apples CEO. We are all born with the ultimate pointing deviceour fingersand iPhone uses them to create the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse.
iPhone is a Revolutionary Mobile Phone
iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows users to make calls by simply pointing at a name or number. iPhone syncs all of your contacts from your PC, Mac® or Internet service such as Yahoo!, so that you always have your full list of up-to-date contacts with you. In addition, you can easily construct a favorites list for your most frequently made calls, and easily merge calls together to create conference calls.
iPhones pioneering Visual Voicemail, an industry first, lets users look at a listing of their voicemails, decide which messages to listen to, then go directly to those messages without listening to the prior messages. Just like email, iPhones Visual Voicemail enables users to immediately randomly access those messages that interest them most.
iPhone includes an SMS application with a full QWERTY soft keyboard to easily send and receive SMS messages in multiple sessions. When users need to type, iPhone presents them with an elegant touch keyboard which is predictive to prevent and correct mistakes, making it much easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones. iPhone also includes a calendar application that allows calendars to be automatically synced with your PC or Mac.
iPhone features a 2 megapixel camera and a photo management application that is far beyond anything on a phone today. Users can browse their photo library, which can be easily synced from their PC or Mac,
with just a flick of a finger and easily choose a photo for their wallpaper or to include in an email.
iPhone is a quad-band html">GSM phone which also features EDGE and Wi-Fi wireless technologies for data networking. html">Apple has chosen Cingular, the best and most popular carrier in the US with over 58 million subscribers, to be html">Apples exclusive carrier partner for iPhone in the US.
iPhone is a Widescreen iPod
iPhone is a widescreen iPod with touch controls that lets music lovers touch their music by easily scrolling through entire lists of songs, artists, albums and playlists with just a flick of a finger. Album artwork is stunningly presented on iPhones large and vibrant display.
iPhone also features Cover Flow, html">Apples amazing way to browse your music library by album cover artwork, for the first time on an iPod. When navigating your music library on iPhone, you are automatically switched into Cover Flow by simply rotating iPhone into its landscape position.
iPhones stunning 3.5-inch widescreen display offers the ultimate way to watch TV shows and movies on a pocketable device, with touch controls for play-pause, chapter forward-backward and volume. iPhone plays the same videos purchased from the online iTunes® Store that users enjoy watching on their computers and iPods, and will soon enjoy watching on their widescreen televisions using the new html">AppleTV". The iTunes Store now offers over 350 television shows, over 250 feature films and over 5,000 music videos.
iPhone lets users enjoy all their iPod content, including music, audiobooks, audio podcasts, video podcasts, music videos, television shows and movies. iPhone syncs content from a users iTunes library on their PC or Mac, and can play any music or video content they have purchased from the online iTunes store.
iPhone is a Breakthrough Internet Communications Device
iPhone features a rich HTML email client which fetches your email in the background from most POP3 or IMAP mail services and displays photos and graphics right along with the text. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can be reading a web page while downloading your email in the background.
Yahoo! Mail, the worlds largest email service with over 250 million users, is offering a new free push IMAP email service to all iPhone users that automatically pushes new email to a users iPhone, and can be set up by simply entering your Yahoo! name and password. iPhone will also work with most industry standard IMAP and POP based email services, such as Microsoft Exchange, html">Apple .Mac Mail, AOL Mail, html">Google Gmail and most ISP mail services.
iPhone also features the most advanced and fun-to-use web browser on a portable device with a version of its award-winning Safari" web browser for iPhone. Users can see any web page the way it was designed to be seen, and then easily zoom in to expand any section by simply tapping on iPhones multi-touch display with their finger. Users can surf the web from just about anywhere over Wi-Fi or EDGE, and can automatically sync their bookmarks from their PC or Mac. iPhones Safari web browser also includes built-in html">Google Search and Yahoo! Search so users can instantly search for information on their iPhone just like they do on their computer.
iPhone also includes html">Google Maps, featuring html">Googles groundbreaking maps service and iPhones amazing maps application, offering the best maps experience by far on any pocket device. Users can view maps, satellite images, traffic information and get directions, all from iPhones remarkable and easy-to-use touch interface.
iPhones Advanced Sensors
iPhone employs advanced built-in sensorsan accelerometer, a proximity sensor and an ambient light sensorthat automatically enhance the user experience and extend battery life. iPhones built-in accelerometer detects when the user has rotated the device from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display accordingly, with users immediately seeing the entire width of a web page, or a photo in its proper landscape aspect ratio.
iPhones built-in proximity sensor detects when you lift iPhone to your ear and immediately turns off the display to save power and prevent inadvertent touches until iPhone is moved away. iPhones built-in ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the displays brightness to the appropriate level for the current ambient light, thereby enhancing the user experience and saving power at the same time.
Pricing & Availability
iPhone will be available in the US in June 2007, Europe in late 2007, and Asia in 2008, in a 4GB model for $499 (US) and an 8GB model for $599 (US), and will work with either a PC or Mac. iPhone will be sold in the US through html">Apples retail and online stores, and through Cingulars retail and online stores. Several iPhone accessories will also be available in June, including html">Apples new remarkably compact html">Bluetooth headset.– Jason Chen
Product Page [html">Apple]
iPhone includes support for quad-band html">GSM, EDGE, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and html">Bluetooth 2.0 EDR wireless technologies.
iPhone requires a Mac with a USB 2.0 port, Mac OS® X v10.4.8 or later and iTunes 7; or a Windows PC with a USB 2.0 port and Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4), Windows XP Home or Professional (Service Pack 2). Internet access is required and a broadband connection is recommended. html">Apple and Cingular will announce service plans for iPhone before it begins shipping in June.
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Meer: Apple iPhone further details emerge - Sad news for CDMA users | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Software Headlines :: Index | 2006-12-16 09:08:43
There are strong rumours floating that Apple is going to officially announce the iPhone on Monday (Dec 18) and as the presumed release date gets closer so do the specs on the iPhone. Sources report that the iPhone will bs a GSM/EDGE (2.5G) phone and not a UMTS (3G) device thus it wont work on CDMA networks like Sprint, Verizon or Alltel. Apple's decision to go with 2.5G lies in the technology's advantages over 3G: physically smaller components and more reliable communication. The iPhone will be offered at the same price by all carriers as Apple does not want carriers to subsidize the cost of iPhone. It would be more accurate to think of the device as an iPod with phone capabilities, rather than a phone with iPod functionality. The iPhone will most likely ship in two versions with 4GB and 8GB of Nand Flash, however pricing will be higher than a similar iPod and if Kevin Rose of Digg is to be believed the iPhone will ship in a 4GB version for $249 and an 8GB version for $449, representing a $50 and $200 premium, respectively, over the iPod Nano.SourceSource: http://www.newlaunches.com/archives/apple_iphone_further_details_emerge_sad_news_for_cdma_users.php http://www.softwareheadlines.com/modules/planet/view.article.php/77151
Meer: Apple iPhone Will Come in All Colors of the Rainbow | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Gizmodo | 2006-12-15 02:40:32
It seems like Kevin Rose isn't the only person with "insider" knowledge of the iPhone. Morgan Stanley analyst, Rebecca Runkle, has come forth with further details on the infamous phone. (How she got the info is anyone's guess). Unlike Rose, Runkle says the phone will cost $599 for the 4GB model and a whopping $649 for the 8GB version. She also claims it'll be wider than an iPod Nano, but narrower than the 5G iPod. It'll have a nice 3.5-inch display and will come in multi-colored aluminum shells like the Nano. As always, I'd take the news with a grain of salt. I especially hope she's wrong about the pricing. – Louis Ramirez
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Meer: Jobs: 2007 Apple products will be most exciting ever | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | SlashPhone | 2006-10-21 09:26:20
Apple boss Steve Jobs is just about guaranteed to get the gadget hounds baying when he says something along the lines of "2007 will be the most exciting year ever for new products", and the rumours, speculation and unadulterated, desperate lust is slopping around the internet like cheap rum on a hen-night. The scent of investment always brings the money-men running, and this time it's Prudential Equity Group analyst Jesse Tortora who has all of a sudden all the inside gossip on just what Apple will be bringing out of its electronic hat. http://www.slashphone.com/70/5605.html
Meer: Apple iPhone - To Be, or Not to Be? | rss feed | toevoegen | e-mail nieuwsalarm | Slashdot | 2006-08-05 04:02:02
An anonymous reader writes "With the Apple WWDC looming on Monday, the internet once again beats itself silly over what Steve Jobs has in store. At the most fanciful end of the scale, there's talk of the Apple iPhone, to which CNET says, 'keep on dreaming', and Gizmodo says, 'no visible evidence'. The only solid evidence of an iPhone, beyond the endless mocked-up images, is the discovery of hidden phone-related code in a recent iPod updater. Macrumors has some info on what the keynote may contain -- and there's no mention of an iPhone. So, as the rumor mill continues to grind over the weekend, let the predictions begin. Is there an Apple iPhone, or is there not?"
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