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Danny Gorog28 June 2007, 12:25 AM

2 days to go:The American press loves the iPhone, but most are unhappy with the slow 2.5G EDGE connection it comes with.


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iPhone gets rave reviews (well mostly, anyway)

Lots of the leading tech journos have lavished praise on the yet-to-be-released iPhone. There are lots of summaries, but this one over at Valleywag is easy to digest. You know what happens when Walt likes something don't you?

iPhone to cost up to $3566?

According to Apple, a two year contract for the iPhone could cost up to $US3000 ($A3566) in total. Could this stymie the success of iPhone, or is the media just beating things up?

Motorola worried about iPhone as a competitor

Second-largest mobile phone maker Motorola has confessed it is worried about what effect the iPhone will have on its already plunging market share.

Padmasree Warrior, Motorola's chief technology officer, told the Financial Times that she was "worried" about the effect of the US computer maker's offering.

Another day, another video tutorial from Apple

This one, about how the virtual keyboard works is a great demo of the most controversial iPhone feature.

Returns and Cancellation Policy

TUAW has a good summary of the various iPhone cancellation scenarios. If the SIM card is in fact accessible this is certainly food for thought.

iPhone to work with Microsoft Exchange. iPhone does VPN

There are reports circulating that iPhone will sync with MS Exchange. Some of this is based on Walt's comments but John Gruber believes this will be via an IMAP service rather than proprietary exchange support.

So, what's still missing?

This is a good summary of things that the current iPhone is missing. Maybe waiting for version 2.0 is a good idea? And don't forget APC's earlier article: Top 10 reasons to hate the iPhone -- controversial reading, but you'll find it hard to argue with some of the points!


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Anonymous1:

another completely unbiased and well balanced view of an apple product.

29 February 2008, 8:31 PM (2 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Wes:

US$3,000 is the up to price but I wonder what the starting from price is.

29 February 2008, 8:31 PM (2 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Seamus:

Americans are clearly a long way behind Australia in terms of the features they expect from handsets. Unbelievably to an Aussie, it doesn't have:

- MMS
- A2DP (isn't it a MUSIC phone?)
- Standard headphone jack

I was taking MMS as a given! And A2DP? That sounds like the mistake of a new player to the market... oh, wait...

29 February 2008, 8:31 PM (2 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Danny Gorog:

It does have a standard headphone jack (like all other iPods). MMS is a waist of time on a phone with email support (seriously, who actually sends MMS's at $7 dollars a message) and A2DP, would probably drain too much power. Plus, if it works the same as regular bluetooth it probably sucks as well.



29 February 2008, 8:44 PM (2 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

iMarc:

Cost up to $3566? Ummm, really big deal? Go over to Verizon and price a new Blackberry 8830. 2 year plan for 4000 minutes is $169.99/per month, same as one of the Apple/ATT plans. Add the cost of the phone, and you have $4379.75 for 2 years of usage! But very worth it, if you need a mobile phone, and you actually use that many minutes! And also a similar cost to break the contract. (Add another $10 per month for 550 messages a month)

Oh, I forgot the $100 rebate on the phone!

For any of us business users with a big bucket of minutes, the cost of the phone itself isn't a big thing. That's why they often subsidize the phone. Nad going over your monthly allotment of minutes is where the real money is!

29 February 2008, 8:31 PM (2 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

RyanChloe:

LOL .. maddox really good. I say this even though I own an iPhone.

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