Macworld 2007 - San Francisco

[Stoo]

yup, Q4 07

10:47 am Europe by Cal4 this year

[Stoo]

Q4 i believe. should be interesting how much it will cost, even on contract.

Yup, I guess that's why Europe is coming later, phone contracts tend to be a bit different over here..

I'd see it coming in £299-399 with a contract

[Stoo]

Technical Specifications
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
GSM Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)
Wireless data Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + 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 / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm
Weight 4.8 ounces / 135 grams

[csl]

a phone to quite literally die for, unfortunately. i'd be scared to use it in public.

[Stoo]

Very slinky isn't it

[DaBeeeenster]

Wonder if it can do OTA exchange syncing?

[Nick F]

Can we expect there to be more phones using OS x and other Apple OS' in future?

[dave87]

I'm looking forwards to the end of my 18month contract - I wonder if I can get something like that

[Tom Scott]

Wonder if it can do OTA exchange syncing?

I highly doubt it, its not as if DirectPush works with anything but WM5. There was speculation of Apple wanting to work with BlackBerry though, so you may see a BlackBerry connect client on it....

[DR]

I will get one as soon as I can

[Tarffie]

Can we expect there to be more phones using OS x and other Apple OS' in future?

Can't imagine their OS licensing for this being any different to the full fat OS X.

Steve mentioned this quote during his speech too:

"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware."

Which to me sounds like he intends for Apple to only use the iPhone OS X on the iPhone.

[Nick F]

Any video online yet of this speech? I would love to see it.

[charleski]

Most ridiculous Stevism of the keynote:

"Photography, these days, is hidef with these amazing digital cameras"
- makes you wonder how Ansel Adams coped with his clunky lowdef gear, doesn't it?

video is here BTW.

[DaBeeeenster]

I highly doubt it, its not as if DirectPush works with anything but WM5. There was speculation of Apple wanting to work with BlackBerry though, so you may see a BlackBerry connect client on it....

The Mail App in OSX connects natively to Exchange Server. Of course you can expose your exchange server with IMAP, but what about contacts and calendar? Maybe directpush is not required, but OTA syncing of calendar and contacts would be a huge boost for this device in the business sector anyway...

[Funkstar]

hey, if it *really* is OSX on there, then surely all you have to do it load on any commercial application that can connect to exchange?

Of course, that is assuming the OSX thing wasn't blown out of proportion *cough*

[dangel]

Meh, no GPS (a must for my next device), no 3g, expensive, stupid touch screen with no hard keys (or slide out keyboard) meaning I have to look at it to answer the phone or hang up/screen needs constant cleaning. Most advanced mobile browser ever? Give me a break - perhaps they've not been to the Opera recently Does it look a big lardy too?

UI looks interesting on the upside but really why are people wetting their pants over this? So much competition in the market now with phones with more features, a more mature platform (symbian/Windows Mobile) etc etc. You could stick an Apple logo on a turd and sell it for 600USD these days

(originally posted elsewhere but more relevant here)