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I'd be very suprised if 3rd party widgets weren't allowed. The OS is still OS X and Apple have encouraged a lot of 3rd party developers to add to the list of widgets available to the home market.

I say watch this space, it isn't even available yet. If you're like me, in Australia, you have to wait until 2008!! Hopefully by then Apple will have 3G (possibly 4G in Australia by then) and built in camera capable of video too.

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2387

I like Apple's rhetoric better.

best regards,
Jerry

there will be lots of reasons the iPhone won't be perfect for a lot of people; just like the iPod; but I think it will sell a ton;

Jerry - I'm guessing Apple will make a new version of the iPhone without the phone feature, but all of the other and sell it as a widescreen iPod with touch - control;
Look for this later this year with a virtual click wheel in the interface, IMHO;

I'm in for 2 of these phones - I think they are major leap compared to current offerings; Of course, I'm already on Cingular which makes a big difference...


ken

Could the iPhone be controlled via comms? As in iPhone<->VDock<->G91A? That would be nice...

check out the human-machine interface technology Apple purchased last year; think of the Apple monitor and other devices we are likely to see with this; Talk about a new Mconfig interface!!
http://multi-touchscreen.com
http://multi-touchscreen.com/iphone.html

ken

HELP.. this damn iPhone is addictive; I can't stop playing with it...
Geezz this thing is so cool...

ken

Ken, please give us a little more of a review! Kudos on the new toy.

best regards,
Jerry

Ken, do you have an airport express or extreme?
If the answer is yes : my haunting for weeks,

Can you send it audio from the iPhone?

thx

juno

my sincere apologies for the lead-in comment; I had planned to write more immediately after, but just couldn't get away from it; Got one for the wife as well and she's been mesmerized...

Here some additional:
This thing is just freakin' awesome; So addictive; The wife is totally entranced and she is the furthest thing from techy you can get.

Showed it to some neighbors and their kids last night (they 'hate' techy stuff) - they used it off the bat and were pretty much just drooling... I've never experienced quite this level of integration ease-of-use; Interestingly, I brought it home, activated/set-up in a few minutes (via iTunes); Sync with contacts, e-mail, calendar, music, movies , and TV shows - took about 15 minutes to initially copy/sync it all; then lit out to the neighbors as we were late; Without ever even using it - I was able to show all of the above features and hand it over for immediate use.

The multi-touch screen interface makes it so intuitive - we were watching North By Northwest - call came in - paused, answered the cal, hung up, back to the movie where I left off;

Google maps is amazing - you zoom by using the 2 finger stretch motion...

From Browsing music albums, watching movies/tv shows, browsing FULL internet (and google maps), looking at some of our photos, and making phones calls - all just easy and slick;

It automatically picks up our home WIFI and connects to the internet that way;
Setup was via iTunes, only took a few minutes (including selecting the AT&T plan and activating phone);

I know some will find nit-picks and no doubt improvements will be made, but this definitely raises the field several pegs; It acts more like a computer in your hand with an elegant interface. The touch control and integration is so addictive.

Juno - I have an ATV and an Airport Extreme hub; I gave my express to the kids; I was wondering the same thing - I'll check that out and see if I can.. report back on that one...

ken

ok - browsing and entering this post using the iPhone. Turned it sidewase and the gyro sensors automatically detected and switched the screen and virtual keyboard to widescreen. Using thumbs on keyboard. The software automatically analyzes partial words and predicts the next letter, then increases the touch-target size for that letter allowing faster typing.

Don't see a way yet to stream to AE. Not hopeful but haven't given up. Cool just noticed it automatically capitalizes the first word in each sentence.

Browsing cover art and pictures is amazing using the touchscreen momentum scrolling -

Somebody really needs to write a remote control app for this thing. AV control would be amazing!!!!!

All done with this first ever iPhone post!!!

ooops - spoke too soon; somebody already developing a Safari based A/V remote controller :
http://www.blargsoft.com/tonberry/

ken

When Meridian and other companies get lambasted for the supposedly “buggy” products that they release, all this iPhone over-hype hysteria is genuinely hard to take.

See link below which describes the iPhone as (and there are many other similar reviews)

• “the iPhone is the best iPod ever - ironic for something not even called an iPod!

• But it's just a plain lousy phone

• And although it makes some exciting advances in handheld Web browsing, it's not the Internet in your pocket.”

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2082361,00.asp

I`m sure that when they release the same device as the 6G iPod (without phone functions) it will start to make a lot more sense. By the time they get to the 3G iPhone, it may even have caught up with Nokia, Windows Mobile and Blackberry and be usable as a Phone, Text, Email and Comms device!!!

Given its name and the fact that it costs a Minimum of $1,300 in the first year to own, these lapses are hard to understand or accept