CIOs pooh-pooh the iPhone
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'It's no Blackberry' Four out for four CIOs agree: the iPhone is no match for the Blackberry. Last night, at an event hosted by Silicon Valley's tech-happy Churchill Club, four high-profile CIOs - representing Google, Hasbro, Levi Strauss, and health care giant McKesson Corp - were asked if they'd carry an iPhone for business purposes, and all four said "No."â¦
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Saying that iPhone âchanged the way we think about how mobile media devices should look, feel and perform,â Time Magazine put iPhone at the top of its list of âTop 10 Gadgets.â iPhoneâs design, Time says, âis exceptional inside and out: Itâs got a slick glass-and-stainless steel case and an elegant touch screen loaded with eye candy. Itâs an iPod and a 2-megapixel camera. Images and video clips display vertically or horizontallyâthey reorient themselves depending on how you hold the thing. When the phone detects a wireless network within rangeâyour own home wi-fi set up or somebody elseâsâit lets you tap once to connect, and then proceed with your Web surfing, Google mapping, emailing and other activities.â
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Blog: When the iPhone freezes it's not the blue screen of death. It's the black screen...of death.
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Blog: The iPhone has landed in the real world and at my house it's been more of a thud than a revelation. Find out how everyone's tech fantasy is squaring with one busy family's reality.
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As developers gather in San Francisco, they've got two big things on their minds: the iPhone and the Leopard OS.
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Developers will get to write applications for the iPhone. Sort of.
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Blog: Verizon plans its own party on the iPhone luanch day.
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âSteve Jobs has said, repeatedly, that this is the best iPod that Apple has ever made, and it is. Itâs also the best phone that anybody has ever made,â says Lev Gossman. âThe user interface,â Grossman marvels, âis crammed with smart little touches â every moment of user interaction has been quietly stage-managed and orchestrated, with such overwhelming attention to detail that when the history of digital interface design is written, whoever managed this project at Apple will be hailed as a Michelangelo, and the iPhone his or her Sistine Chapel.â
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âThe iPhone makes me mad,â proclaims Peter Svesson (AP Technology Writer). âNot, mind you, at the iPhone itself, but mad at cell-phone manufacturers who have saddled us for years with interfaces that lure us into labyrinths of menus.â Unlike cell phones with buttons that âcan mean âBackâ on one screen, âCancelâ on another, [and] âExitâ on a third,â iPhone âhas one button on its face. It always does the same thing: takes you to the top menu, where icons representing all functions of the phoneâmusic player, Internet browser and moreâare laid out in a clear manner. Wham, youâre out of the labyrinth.â That, Svensson laments, is âthe way it always should have been done.â
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Blog: Playing with the iPhone box in CNET's NYC office.
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For the newbie iPhone owner, or those hoping to be one someday, here's a rundown on some of the lesser-known tips for using the popular new smart phone.
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(InfoWorld) - The iPhone has arrived, but not from Apple Computer. Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems, introduced two VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) handsets adding to five others the company already offers. The group of phones is now part of a Linksys family of products called iPhone. The Linksys iPhones aren't quite what some people may have been expecting.Â Apple is rumored to be working onÂ a combined cell phone and digital music player and the mythical device has been dubbed the iPhone, after the popular iPod digital music player, by Apple enthusiasts. Linksys' newest iPhones include the CIT400, a cordless phone with a base station that attaches directly via Ethernet to a network and comes preloaded with VOIP software from eBay's Skype Internet telephony service. The phone allows users to make and receive Skype calls without having to turn on and use their computers. The WIP320 also comes loaded with Skype software and is compatible with Wi-Fi so that users can make and receive calls on the phone from anywhere they can connect to a wireless access point. Users can check their Skype contact list on the phones to see if someone they want to call is available. The devices support SkypeOut and SkypeIn, the services that allow users to make and receive calls with landline phones for a fee. The WIP320 costs $199.99 and the CIT400 retails for $179.99. Both are available in North America and are expected to become available in Europe, Asia and Latin America during the first quarter next year. If Apple is indeed developing a combined mobile phone and music player, fans will have to adjust their expectations that the device will likely not be called an iPhone. According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Cisco holds the registration for the "iPhone" trademark.
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âAfter all the ink thatâs been spilled describing, previewing and hyping the Apple iPhone, does it deserve the attention? Iâd have to say yes,â reports Ryan Kim (San Francisco Chronicle). âThe lure of the iPhone is that it makes you want to use it. Itâs actually fun. Do we say that about any phones? Hardly. Itâs not really the physical design, which is a marvel of simplicity. Itâs what happens when you pick it up and use it. There is nothing intimidating about it. Rather, itâs inviting.â âThe cell phone, the most personal of technology devices,â Kim concludes, âhas just gotten a whole lot more personal.â
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Next-generation gadgets like the iPhone are turning your mouse into a dinosaur and introducing hands-on computing
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Here&#39;s our list of things Apple did right with the iPhone--and things that could use some work.
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As Apple's new gadget debuts, some start-ups are looking to reinvent mobile-phone service
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By Joe Kirby  That ringing in your ears is the deafening buzz starting to again surround the biggest technology story of the summer: the release of the iPhone.