iPhone fever fever fever… is it the next BlackBerry killer?
For those who haven’t heard yet, the new Apple iPhone was announced at MacWorld today. Imagine jaws dropping, tongues hanging out, eyeballs poppin outta peoples heads! It was totally justified as this little device packs quite a punch. It features a 3.5 inch touchscreen with a virtual keyboard, a 2 megapixel camera, is WIFI enabled and runs OSX. Its offered in the 4 GB and 8 GB models and costs $499 and $599, respectively.
Now the question is, will it be a Blackberry Killer? How does the iPhone expect to compete against the Blackberry’s continuous email access for the hordes of business men leashed to the device already? For pure business use, BB is in a class of their own. Clearly the iPhone is aimed at a different audience… the masses. A few years back, we prayed that one day, all devices can be fused into one unit. We had to cope with the backbreaking task of lugging around our phone, iPod, camera and PDA separately. Devices quickly converged and they became Jack of all trades, masters of none. Apple has raised the bar again and pushed the boundaries. It’s answered our prayers and the day has come. Um sorry, the only thing is, we’ll have to wait until a day in June ‘07 to get one. I know I’ll be drooling… um… i mean dreaming until then.
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“There are a lot of issues with iPhone as others have deftly pointed out, not the least of which are the facts that it doesn’t have a removable battery, it’s locked to a carrier, it’s wicked expensive (when you consider that Apple’s getting a ~US$100 kickback from Cingular on each unit sold) and the list goes on. But what may sink the iPhone is its lack of international roaming support.”
As per Jason D. O’Grady’s Apple blog post, What may sink the iPhone
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?cat=91
* No 3G. We know you know, but still, it hurts man.
* No over the air iTunes Store downloads or WiFi syncing to your host machine.
* No expandable memory.
* No removable battery.
* No Exchange or Office support.