US iPhone sales go ballistic in July

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Tuesday, 04 September 2007 21:32

Your IT - Mobility

For competitors, the time is now to take bold moves into creating innovative handheld devices with breakthrough features, usability, battery life, high speed connectivity, video, photo and GPS capability and more, making the mobile Internet and all that a mobile do-it-all digital device the device that is your portal into the rest of the connected world – with the highest focus possible on ultra reliable, ultra fast and ultra smooth operation – just like the iPhone.

After all, for better or worse, it has created a new base standard by which all other handheld technologies are now being measured, and there can be no mistake that there are plenty of technologies out there that are now looking decidedly late 20th century, as opposed to the absolutely impossible to ignore 21st century nature of technologies like the iPhone, the Surface Computer and other cool stuff like the electric car.

The great thing is that all the competing cell phone makers now only know this too well, and are working overtime to craft their own innovative models to offer consumers, leveraging many advanced new features of late along with their powerful brand names.

Consumers are set to be treated to the most advanced, yet most usable, useful and totally connected mobile devices ever seen outside of the pages of sci-fi novels, both classic and new, making today’s iPhone and other phones look like early primitive models.

But that’s all in our not-too-distant future. For now, the figures show that the iPhone’s where all the action is at, with the iPhone’s new touch interface clearly one of the most important factors.

We haven’t yet invented true teleportation, but at least with touch technology finally getting a lot smarter than ever before, along with ever more advanced voice recognition systems and technologies such as Nuance’s Dragon NaturallySpeaking and also ever better Tablet PC designs has seen the shift toward more natural interaction with computers than we've ever seen, and for all these advances, it’s still only the beginning.

I wish you could beam me up, Scotty, but for now, I’m more than satisfied with my iPhone for my sci-fi technology to sci-fact fix, and plenty of other people are too… at least for now! :-)