Apple blows world away with amazing new 'iPhone'

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Wednesday, 10 January 2007 00:27

Your IT - Mobility

The iPhone comes in a 4Gb version for US $499, while an 8Gb version will retail at US $599. Delivery for the US is June, Europe is the fourth quarter while Asia is 2008. Presumably this means Australia, being in the ‘Asian’ region, won’t see the iPhone until 2008.

Steve Jobs did start off by explaining that the iTV is now the Apple TV, with Wi-Fi b/g/n, 40Gb of internal storage, and could stream videos, photos and music from up to 5 PCs or Macs in your house, with a very slick interface very similar to what Steve Jobs previewed last September when he first showed off iTV.

There was no mention of a 12-inch MacBook, or a Mac Tablet. No talk of an 8-core Mac Pro, even though Intel launched an 8-core solution at CES. No Black iMac computers as someone suggested to me yesterday might appear. No demonstrations of Mac OS X 10.5. No word on how Apple came to a deal with Linksys and Cisco to use the iPhone name. And no ‘one more thing’ at the end, either.

But in the end, it didn’t matter. The Apple TV and especially the iPhone simply blew us all away. Competitors ‘smartphones’ don’t look anywhere near as smart as they did yesterday. The iPhone’s touch screen interface looks to be tremendously simple to use, with the iPhone truly taking the mobile everything experience to the next level.

Apple have done it! Steve Jobs has upstaged the world. He's made every competing mobile phone manufacturer wonder how many 10-ton trucks just hit them. And made them all wonder how on earth they can quickly develop technology to at the very least match Apple's 200+ patents and innovations on a phone that has taken Apple years to develop.

To see images and get more details, Apple's website at http://www.apple.com/iphone/ has what you need to know. The just-concluded keynote will be available to watch at http://www.apple.com/iphone/keynote/ later today, no doubt there is a video editing suite in full use as we type to get the keynote up onto the Internet as quickly as possible.

We urge you to look at it, so you can see first hand the world's most amazing digital device ever. It’s only the 9th of January as we type in the US, but already, we can confidently say that the iPhone is not only the gadget of the year or the decade, but so far, it is THE gadget of the 21st century!