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| Wayne Swanson wrote: | Then you're not looking for a "smart phone". The iPhone is not being billed as anything approaching a smart phone. Probably the closest existing phone would be an LG Chocolate; phone, MP3 Player, and email/web in one device. The only thing it iPhone has extra is WiFi and an Apple logo, but is woefully short on WWAN. Cinguar's EDGE technology is second generation stuff ... akin to 1XRTT.
If you can afford one of these way overpriced toys, you can certainly afford Verizon's Early Termination Fee.
Apple's exclusive with Cingular would seem to rule out WiMax. Sprint is the company that dumped 3 Billion into WiMax development, and is rolling out two markets as we speak.
If one can see through the glitz and hype this thing just doesn't measure up. |
Love it when people dismiss a device that doesn't even exist in other than prototype form! 
Did everyone not notice the iCalendar icons, the iChat icon, or the Mail icon, or the iPhoto icon? It'll have word processing software, too. What more would you want/need to make it a "smart" phone?
Guess no one read my post above about Steve Jobs mentioning they're be adding 3G support in the future, or the fact that it has WiFi, so people should be able to use it with a EVDO wireless mobile router? Or the fact that the Cingular 'exclusive' deal is a limited thing, and that Apple will continue development to add more compatibility?
All theoretical, at this point: as I said, the thing is just a prototype right now, and won't ship until June (at the earliest). So the feature set will be changing in the meantime, and it's not like the features won't be evolving after that (much like the various versions of iPods).
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