Who is Ready for MACWORLD?

[dartworth]

10:25am - "I hope you never really know how incredible this is... it's bad out there. This is a revolution of the first order. I'm going to load stock information off the web, and right onto the phone here." Apple's shares up over $2.50. Ha.


LOL

 

[NakaNaka]

NO WAP VERSIONS. Full web pages.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: NakaNaka
Wow. It takes phone numbers from Google Maps and allows you to call w. one tap.

My Blackberry does that

 

[cheezy321]

If its 500 or less, I am buying it today

 

[James3shin]

Originally posted by: NakaNaka
NO WAP VERSIONS. Full web pages.

Oh DAYUM! That put a dent in my WM05 phone

 

[NakaNaka]

LOL Apple's stock up 3 points in the last hour.

 

[eits]

that was from september...

 

[dartworth]

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/01/dsc_0210.jpg

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/01/dsc_0212.jpg

 

[NakaNaka]

Originally posted by: cheezy321
If its 500 or less, I am buying it today

Me too.

 

[NakaNaka]

So if I'm somewhere w. no access to WiFi, I can access this through Cingular's internet/GSM network or whatever its called? I've never had internet on a phone before.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: James3shin

Originally posted by: NakaNaka
NO WAP VERSIONS. Full web pages.

Oh DAYUM! That put a dent in my WM05 phone

Uh...use Opera. Plus, full webpages put the hurt on EDGE connections.

Anyways, looks nice for a basic smartphone. I don't care what kind of touchscreen tech they come up with, nothing beats a builtin qwerty keyboard. Just about everything he's gone over has been done on WM smartphones for quite a while. I am definitely jealous of the builtin 8GB though.

 

[bigrash]

Originally posted by: dartworth
10:18am - "It connects to any POP3 or IMAP email -- Yahoo Mail, MS Exchange, Mac Mail... POP3: Gmail, AOL mail, and most ISPs... let's highlight one, Yahoo mail. Today we are announcing Yahoo will offer free push-IMAP email to iPhone customers. This isn't just IMAP, this is push-email, same as a BlackBerry."

push email with yahoo? damn i wanted to get one before, and that just seals the deal

 

[Kermy]

Lol, knowing Cingular it'll be $500 after 2 year agreement with rebates.

Wonder what the battery life will be.

 

[dartworth]

10:26am - "I can go look at the weather, let's see what it's like outside... 49 degrees, but we'll just stay in here until it warms up." Showing various time zones, scrolling left and right. "Now, to conclude with the internet device section, I want to show you google Maps on iPhone -- it comes up and I'm going to go to Moscone West. And here we are, boom, I'm going to want a cup of coffee afterwards, so I'm going to search for StarBucks." Shows Gmaps POI info including number and address, which drops right into the dialer. He's calling StarBucks.

"Yes, I'd like to order 4000 lattes to go please. Sorry, wrong number thank you!" Huge laughs, huge applause.
"Pinch if I want to, or I can double-tap to zoom in. Let's go somewhere else..." People are rapt, everyone is actually literally leaning forward and on the edge of their seat. We've never seen a presentation like this before.

 

[cheezy321]

Originally posted by: NakaNaka
So if I'm somewhere w. no access to WiFi, I can access this through Cingular's internet/GSM network or whatever its called? I've never had internet on a phone before.

Yes, You have to pay a monthly fee to access the internet though (29.99 a month i believe)

I have a hack workaround on my MDA right now that uses t-mobiles t-zones to get my internet. Its slow but its only 7 bucks a month!

 

[dartworth]

10:29am - "Pinch if I want to, or I can double-tap to zoom in. Let's go somewhere else..." People are rapt, everyone is actually literally leaning forward and on the edge of their seat. We've never seen a presentation like this before.
"Isn't that incredible? Right on my PHONE! Look at this, the Eiffel tower -- isn't that incredible? Here's the last one, the colliseum in Rome."

10:30am - "All these amazing things -- this is a breakthrough internet communicator built right into iPhone." Reviewing the features... "Incredible new technology for entering text, a real browser on the phone, we can zoom in, Google maps, Widgets... it's the internet in your pocket for the first time ever. You can't really think about the internet without thinking about google."

10:31am - "From google what we have on the phone is google search built right into the browser and google maps. We've been working closely with them.. it's my pleaseure now to introduce Dr. Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO."

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/01/dsc_0216.jpg

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/01/dsc_0213.jpg

 

[mzkhadir]

Apple + Google working together

 

[dartworth]

cingular media net is $20/month unlimited...

 

[NakaNaka]

Apple shares up 2 points in the last 10 minutes.

 

[dartworth]

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/01/dsc_0217.jpg

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10:32am - Eric: "I've had the privilege of joining the board and there's a lot of relationships... if we merge the companies we can call it Applegoo -- but I'm not a marketing guy. You can actually merge without merging. Each company should do the absolutely best thing they can do every time, and he's shown it today." Huge applause, again.

10:33am - "We can take the enormous brain trust of the Apple team and the open protocols of companies like google and put them in an environment for end users. From a gooogle perspective we've pushed very hard to partner with Apple and working with many many different data service, -- Steve showed a little bit. It comes together seamlessly. This is the first of a whole new generation..."

 

[NakaNaka]

Originally posted by: dartworth
cingular media net is $20/month unlimited...

Thanks.

 

[dartworth]

"Steve, my congratulations to you, this product is going to be HOT."

10:34am - "As a board member you'll get one of the first ones!" Har. "You also can't think about the internet without thinking about Yahoo. We've got Yahoo search built right in, and we've got Yahoo IMAP email services. So it's my great pleasure to introduce Jerry Yang, co-founder and Chief Yahoo!"

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: dartworth
Verizon would charge $30/month to use Google Maps...lol

i've had full google maps functionality for months on sprint

 

[dartworth]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: dartworth
Verizon would charge $30/month to use Google Maps...lol

i've had full google maps functionality for months on sprint

 

[dartworth]

10:35am - Jerry's up on stage, "Thank you Steve. I'm not a board member of Apple, but I'd love to have one of these too. We're really proud of Yahoo to be partnering with Apple. One of the things we're going to be doing is launching some of our new services , Yahoo Go and One Search on this phone. Mail is a killer app on the phone, Yahoo is trying to redesign the web and email experience on mobile devices. The best spam protection, address books, and calendar when you're on yahoo -- It's like BlackBerry without an Exchange Server."