Yep, it's official. At 9:40am Pacific, Apple's Steve Jobs announced the iPhone, and the newest Apple gadget gave it's tiny little polyphonic birth cry.Details are still sketchy but, here's what our feet on the street at TUAW have to say in their live blogging of Jobs keynote. No word yet whether the iPhone really does encompass features of the iPod, but one can only hope.
- "These phones all have keyboards that are there whether you need them or not. And they have buttons and controls that can't change if you want to add an idea to the product six months down the road." i.e. Touchscreen, kiddies.
- Most advanced phones are called "Smart Phones" but they're not so smart, and not so easy to use. We leapfrog with a product that is way smarter and way easier to use with a revolutionary UI with years of research and development behind it. (David adds: "Man! Ryan of Engadget really hit this right on the head.")
- Multi-touch technology "works like magic". (Laurie notes: "I have a draw full of styluses.") It ignores unintended touches, multi-finger gestures and has patents. Or something like that. I think I jumbled things there a little bit. It is built on top of revolutionary interface with software that calls current mobile phones "baby software" and then mocks them. Yes, the iPhone runs OS X, children!!! W00t!
Update 2: Music and more. Coverflow flipbooks, tight iTunes integration, stereo headphones with tiny microphone, 4GB will be $499, 8GB $599. You'll have to wait until June so, put that credit card away.
Update 3: Here's a flickr stream of the whole thing. Like Buttah!
1. $499 4GB, $599 8GB. Save pennies now, it's not available till June.
Posted at 3:28PM on Jan 9th 2007 by Grant Robertson