More about the iPhone

Ok, so we have seen and heard in the past days how beautiful, how cool, how gorgeous Apple's brand new iPhone is. Well, here's something to balance that. Newlaunches.com gives us 5 reasons why the iPhone might not fair as well as some other smartphones out there.

1) Non Removable battery
2) No 3G, only EDGE and Wi-Fi
3) No Expansion slot
4) Only 5 Hour Talktime
5) 2 Megapixel camera

Click here to read more.

Well, nobody said it was perfect, but it certainly has given us enough to drool about! What about those who don't care to pay for an integrated device and just want their 80Gb widescreen video iPod? Well, I guess we just have to wait and see if Apple decides to roll that one out at all, though I doubt they will do it soon since it would very likely hurt sales of the iPhone.

More on the history of the development of the iPhone. This is a great article at Time.com which gives you a but more background on how the iPhone evolved to what it is today.


Here's an excerpt:

Cell phones are perfect because even Grandma has one: consumers bought nearly a billion of them last year. Break off just 1% of that and you can buy yourself a lot of black turtlenecks. Cell phones do all kinds of stuff—calling, text messaging, Web browsing, contact management, music playback, photos and video—but they do it very badly, by forcing you to press lots of tiny buttons, navigate diverse heterogeneous interfaces and squint at a tiny screen. “Everybody hates their phone,” Jobs says, “and that's not a good thing. And there's an opportunity there.”

I think, Apple has done many things right this time round. Think about it, mobile phones have more less become an indispensable part of our existence. Not everyone needs an mp3 player. But a mobile phone? Even primary school kids carry them nowadays. Makes me wonder how I used to survive with none of these hi-tech entrapments before. I got myself a pager only when I was 19 and my first mobile during 2nd semester of my first year at university.

Back to what I was saying, the convergence of the mobile phone and mp3 player is something that had already started happening since last year. It was only a matter of time before Apple began to lose sales in it's lower end iPods. But with the iPhone? Who knows? Would there be an iPhone Mini (less frills but cheaper) to target a greater audience? When the first iPod came out, nobody considered it affordable. It was a luxury item! But look at how Apple changed the mp3 player industry single-handedly with it?

The iPhone might not make that huge waves in the mobile phone industry, but it certainly will change the way people expect to use their phones. And with OS X built-in to each iPhone, Apple has basically just rolled out it's largest advertising campaign for Mac Computers till date. Who wouldn't want a Mac after you have experienced the fun and ease of Apple's user-friendly graphical user-interface on your phone? Especially when you are used to doing it the Apple way on your phone!

Well, am I glad that amidst all these, consumers are the biggest winners here. Let's just hope that by the time the iPhone reach our shores, there will be great tie-ups with the mobile phone companies to bring down the price a bit.

Finally, this is a great blog that I came across just. Gems Sty is a selective archive of interesting posts and issues online, relating to the bizarre, interesting, inspirational, fresh, clever ideas and happenings. Check out the post on 3D Face Morphing. Truly unbelievable. Enjoy!