Can Apple Best the Phone Competition?

[Zuntar]

Apple's iPhone combines the wizardry of smartphones with the music- and movie-playing features of the iPod; the iPhone offers a large, 3.5-inch touchscreen, a 2-megapixel camera, and integration with Apple's iTunes music store. By creating the iPhone, even with such an ambitious set of features, Apple could be facing its toughest competition yet

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[kryyst]

This thing is much more then a phone though it's a portable computer. With wifi hopping you could setup VoIP at home and use the internet to make phone calls through your VoIP account whenever you had an internet connection. It's really a fantastic little machine and the interface is super slick. I want one, I want one bad. My only annoyance with it is the poor battery life. At 5 hours combined use I can see needing to always have a car charger with you and having it plugged in most of the time.

[rapture]

The none removable battery and already outdated phone tech worries me, I wouldnt accept a 2g phone with a 2mp camera as a free upgrade now never mind pay apple's extortinate price tag in the future.

Thing is huge too, portable computer is the right label for it. Not what I would want in a phone at all really...

[Loki047]

Err as far as i can tell its a Treo without a keyboard but with wifi.... Im guessing whoever supports this fone will stop VoIP

[kryyst]

Correct voip isn't going to be an option on this phone. It's all 1st person software only so no 3rd party hacks. Officially the iPhone is a cool toy but not the geek crowd wet dream people were initially hoping it'll be. It'll still sell like mad though. Here's to hoping iPhone v2 will be geek friendly.