All I can say is OH MY GOD!

This has moved RIGHT to the front of my MUST HAVE List!

"We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before -- sync your iPhone with your PC or mac. Visual voicemail -- wouldn't it be great if you didn't have to listen to five of them to list to the sixth? Just like email you can go directly to the voicemails that interest you. iPhone is a quad-band GSM + EDGE phone." No 3G! "We have WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0"

"We have been very lucky to have brought a few revolutionary user interfaces to the market -- the mouse, the click wheel, and now Multi-Touch. Each has made possible a revolutionary product, the Mac, the iPod, and now the iPhone. We're going to build on top of that with software. Software on mobile phones is like baby-software. Today we're going to show you a software breakthrough. Software that's 5-years ahead of what's on any other phone."

"iPhone runs OS X!"

Huge cheers. "Why would we want to run such a sophisticated OS on a mobile device? It's got everything we need. Mulittasking, networking, power management, graphics, security, video, graphics, audio core animation..."

Steve Jobs Keynote

Could this be the standard configuration? 8 Gigabytes of Memory? Makes sense since it uses OSX and will double as a Video ipod! Jesus this blows everything Palm Has, completely out of the water! What will it sell for?

I have watched the rumor mills for months on this. Ironically, one of the first sites to break the news today was Palm Addicts, the flagship site for Palm related news.

While little details are available at the moment, if I am a Palm executive, I am sweating right now. Palm has dominated the Smartphone space for a few years now. While I have been drooling over the prospect of getting my hands on a Treo 680, that device, and the Treo 750, may be too little, too late. Palm has done poorly in recent years in listening to their customers. their NVFS file system has been a disaster, resulting in instability, and frequent crashes on their latest devices. Their Operating System is old and outdated, and has no multitasking. They have steadfastly refused to provide sufficient memory on their smartphone products. They are one of the few high end smartphone manufacturers that have refused to provide Wifi, or even wifi support...And perhaps more telling than anything, they suck when it comes to support.

This new Apple Product, if it comes in at a reasonable price, (And I would pay close to a Grand for what I have seen so far), will DESTROY their high end market position.

1. It is ultra thin, and thus COOL.
2. It appears that it has oodles of memory.
3. It will deliver out of the box Video iPod capability.
4. It's an Apple Product, therefore giving it a certain panache immediately.
5. It has been anticipated for over a year.
6. It does not require a stylus (Yes small point, but significant if you have ever lost one)
7. It's sexy.

The ONLY question I have is with its size, what will the battery life be like? I am refreshing the Apple Site every few minutes to see if and when it will be available on the Apple site. If I can afford it, my Treo will soon be retired...

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Posted by: Chris Short at January 10, 2007 08:40 PM