After listening to the news on iPhone, we convened the SquawkBox to discuss what we had seen. There were some questions still unanswered.
I started off by asking people what they were most impressed with — the price points, the enteprise integration, the applications platform, the new mobileme suite — all of these were cited. We also talked about the push architecture, and the impact that these developments would have on competitors in the market.
Needless to say, people were impressed, both with the software, and with the showmanship of Steve Jobs.
On the call: Jim Courtney, Adam Some, Dan York, Hudson Barton, Martyn Davies, Brad Dixon, Carl Ford, Dameon Welch-Abernathy, Ian Hood, James Body, Mike Pruyn
All weekend long I have been toting around three phones – BlackBerry for email, iPhone for personal calls and the internet, and a Nokia N82, with it’s 5 megapixel camera and xenon flash, for photos. We already know that iPhone 2.0 will feature native Microsoft Exchange integration. Driving back, I commented to Janice that if Apple today were to augment the new iPhone with a decent camera, then I could probably go to a single device.
Lo and behold, just hours ahead of the Apple announcements, Samsung has unveiled the i900 Omnia – an iPhone look-a-like running Windows Mobile 6.1, with a 5 megapixel camera. Just yesterday, the details of the BlackBerry Thunder, another iPhone look-a-like, also leaked out. You can bet it will have great email support, although camera quality is anybody’s guess at this point.
Yesterday’s weekend of driving was bonkers – 17 hours in total. When I arrived home last night, I was looking forward to a relaxing wind-down with a glass of wine, and catching up on the latest BattleStar Galactica, which the DVR had recorded for me Friday night. The promo trailers had been promising “all will [...]
The bright sparks at the MPAA have asked the FCC to permit them to use technology to block the home-based recording of recently released movies on DVRs. They say that they want to allow recent releases to go to television faster, but to protect against the possibility of illegal distribution of DVDs created from those [...]
