Apple have announced the iPhone at MacWorld - engadget have coverage with a bunch of photos of Steve Jobs presenting the very cool looking device.

i have been waiting for the day i'd see this post...

self awaking is all thats left for apple, i for one welcome our new iOverlords

looks interesting... you wouldn't wanna drop it though:O What are they going to do in the way of protective casings??

edit: scrap that, looks decent

hadn't seen 'decent' photo's of it before.

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What are they going to do in the way of protective casings??

Well given the massive range of offerings available for the ipod I don't think that'll be a problem

yeh but iPods aren't touch screen...

sex in a phone/mp3 player form! The only porblem could be the battery life imo

Apple quotes 5 hours of battery life for talk or video, with a full 16 hours in music mode -- no word on standby time yet.

I rekon it might be 5 hours for video and 16 for music.

whaddya rekon?

sif read articles, just look at purdy images

I need one.. now.

Looks awesome, but I hear it will be US$500 for 4gb and US$600 for 8gb which I can't afford :(

should be a fair cheaper on a plan tho ($_$)

i can't wait for this we probably wont get it until 2008 sometime tho

Hey thats not bad at all.. Maybe its time to replace my T610

I rekon it might be 5 hours for video and 16 for music.

Yeah, but they also say the Nano gets about 16 hours or something but a few months down the track the battery wont last nearly that long anymore. You dont want a phone that is going to die on you in the afternoon because you where listening to some mp3s that morning on the bus.

those f***ing arseholes. absolute pricks.

how do they expect me to wait until 2008?

:(

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That will (mark my words) be the next mobile phone I buy. I'm not into the whole mobile phone fashion thing but that thing is awesome.

Expect it on Telstra guys. I of course have nothing to back this up, other than the fact that Telstra runs Australia's only EDGE network. Furthermore, Cingular and Telstra are fairly chummy. Finally, the second-gen iPhone will no doubt be 3G and HSDPA capable. Cingular (like Telstra) are pioneering a HSDPA 850MHz 3G network - the same as NextG.

I'll be waiting for the HSDPA version kthx, mainly cause GPRS is slow :(

If there's one thing I've learned from Apple, if you like a product, wait a year and there'll be something 10x better.

Looks great. I'll buy one because it will be like having 3 devices in one.

About the battery life:

Surely this iPhone will have a replaceable battery system? Every mobile phone on the planet has this feature... the iPod does not!?

Damn that looks nice.

What exactly is an EDGE network anyway?

looks f***ing sick
only bad thing is everyone on earth will have one.
I spose that's also a good thing tho.

cant wait to get one in my sweaty little hands and put prints all over that sexy touch screen.

What exactly is an EDGE network anyway?

Compression of GPRS data, basically means that 3x the amount of data can be sent per communication. Result to the end user is that their data transmission is 3x as fast. ~115kbps rather than GPRS' 38.4kbps. Wikipedia link.

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QFT that person who said its their next phone

**drools** uuuugghhhhh

I watched the keynote. The phone is typically Apple in that everything seems nicely integrated. It's a killer app for the telcos as it looks like it may actually make data services useful on a mobile device. I bet singular are drooling just thinking about all those new revenue streams. I bet Telstra will subsidize the hell out of it when it gets here :)

very true that it would be smarter waiting for gen2 iphones, but i seriously dont think i will be able to hold out. infact, i think i will be camping out front of a telstra shop at launch.

i am a total mobile phone noob... haven't had a mobile since they were analog & you could use your phone as a club :P so i'm wondering... what do you guys do with your old phones when you get a new one? is there trade-in deals & wotnot or what's the go?
i wanna get a mobile soonish & am prolly gonna start on some pre-paid dealie so i was looking to buy a cheap 2nd hand phone.

holy s*** that looks cool.

Very, very hot. Another toy for the wishlist.

what do you guys do with your old phones when you get a new one? is there trade-in deals & wotnot or what's the go?

My path is to check if the gf wants it, if not it's off to mum, if not it's to my siblings then down to my nieces/nephews.

i wanna get a mobile soonish & am prolly gonna start on some pre-paid dealie so i was looking to buy a cheap 2nd hand phone.

most pre-paid plans these days come with cheap phones anyway

My path is to check if the gf wants it, if not it's off to mum, if not it's to my siblings then down to my nieces/nephews.

Yeh - second hand mobile phones are generally so worthless you might as well just give them away to anyone that will use them.

If you can't find anyone that wants it, I've seen mobile phone recycling thingos at some phone stores (maybe the Telstra Shops?) that are a good idea too.

Looks pretty sweet. I think their experience with the iPod helps this to start out as a pretty good package, the near future upgrades I see this getting are faster network and larger capacity. The screen looks pretty sweet though.

Do you think the next gen iPod will take those features for the people who don't want the phone also or do you see the iPod dying off and Apple forcing customers to iPhone?

I mean, the phone looks cool for what it does, but if you don't really care about the phone, an 80GB version that's music/photo/video with the same interface would be awesome.

If you can't find anyone that wants it, I've seen mobile phone recycling thingos at some phone stores (maybe the Telstra Shops?) that are a good idea too.

To be honest it'd be more fun to burn it/throw it at something than recycle it for free.

It looks like it s***s from on high on my PPC phone. I'd snap one up in a tick provided they don't break the AUS$1500 mark here outright which i suspect that it will since it's US$700 on a plan for the 8GB version.

They've basically taken everything i like about my PPC and given it a non-clunky interface, sexied up the features somewhat and made it all integrate together. The slightly longer and wider frame is made up for with its thinness.

Just need to confirm it has GPS like suggested in the transcript on CNN ("determines its location using global positioning satellites"), and get confirmation that 'EDGE' is 3G or wait for the 3G version.

Looks like a bit of a brick.

and get confirmation that 'EDGE' is 3G or wait for the 3G version.

Pretty sure it's not 3G

where has steve Jobs hair gone ffs ... now on topic i must have one looks friggin Cool

i thought some other company poached the "iPhone" name before apple got it? what happened there? smart prick whoever stole it...

I have a touch screen remote and although I love its ability to control everything on the planet having to actually look at it to find the keys gets annoying. With this touch screen phone how am I supposed to SMS people while I'm driving? I refuse to buy such technology.

i thought some other company poached the "iPhone" name before apple got it? what happened there? smart prick whoever stole it...

CISCO announced today that they are assuming that Apple accepted their most recent last minute offer on resolving the iPhone trademark issues since Apple didn't cancel the iphone announcement at the apple keynote yesterday.

I refuse to buy such technology.

I guess apple just lost themselves a customer.

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If Term endorses it, then I definitely won't be getting it :P (Did Steve pay you to say that?)

It looks pretty sweet, but I'll wait till I can touch one before I pass judgement... Apple Newton anyone? ;)

With this touch screen phone how am I supposed to SMS people while I'm driving? I refuse to buy such technology.

You're not supposed to SMS people while you're driving

awww it's only out in the states in June, I am there in March :/

Good news is, it's out in Europe before Asian, so I will get it before you guys :p

Can't wait for the threads that come after that heardy....


OH NOES I SCRATCHED MY IPODPHONE ON A LEPRECHAUN PLEASE HELP QGL PLEASE!

:p

LAWL!!

you know it ;)

Looks nice, my next phone come 2008

HEY TROG LOOK OVER HERE - I FOUND THE OBVIOUS!!!

The Apple iPhone contains accelerometers that detects the phone rotation and change the display orientation. It is also used to switch between phone and player mode.

thats a nifty feature

What if the accelerometers are on a treadmill?

is it just me or is Steve Jobs in a skivvy on stage just the ultimate in uber-geekness?

Cisco sues Apple over iPhone

ps. anyone got the full vid of apple's keynote?

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/1/10/6559

the phone supports EDGE which is 2.5G I believe.

Keynote can be found on the apple front page (bottom left) - you'll need quicktime 7 to stream it though.

Steve Jobs wearing a black turtleneck and blue jeans when he delivers a keynote? No! You've gotta be kidding me! :loleyes:

Microsawft releases competing phone.

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1132459

iTV looks not to bad... i would probably consider buying it as i have one like that at the moment and its awesome!!

Microsawft releases competing phone.

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1132459

I lol'd

http://www.ohmibod.com/

Saw this elsewhere :) kinda NWS I guess...