OneAndOneIs2

Fri, Jun 29, 2007

Oh well, never mind, eh?

The USA has been behind Europe in terms of mobile/cell phones pretty much from the start. I'm told it's because pagers caught on in a big way there and delayed people buying phones, or some such.

It seemed like they might at last catch up with us when the iPhone was launched, with an array of new features promised to revolutionize the whole phone experience.

It comes out today. People have been queueing outside Apple shops for the last few days, I'm told.

I've heard from a number of sources that the European version of the iPhone will be announced on Monday.

Unlike the American version, which has only a single carrier and uses 2G technology, the European phone will be multi-carrier and use the more-advanced 3G.

Ah well. America gets a few months of bragging rights, I guess - let's hope they enjoy it while it lasts :o)

(I should perhaps add that I personally find most 'advances' in phone technology lately to be worthless and annoying rather than grounds for boasting - my own phone is the cheapest Nokia available in the store and doesn't even have a camera. But there ARE people out there who seem to genuinely care about these things. Hey ho...)

5 comments • Categories: Omni, Technology

Comments:

Comment from: hari [Member]

· http://hari.literaryforums.org

My Nokia is also the most basic model. What's the big deal about camera phones anyway? Regular cameras take much better pictures than mobile phones.

Permalink 29/06/07 @ 18:36

Comment from: alison [Member] · http://www.creativehedghog.com

Except I forget to take my camera with me (even to special events, like a friend's hens night) and it is ingrained that I have my phone with me, always... maybe it's a girl security thing. A camera phone still seems a bit excessive when you have a perfectly working voice/text machine and another perfectly working picture machine (forgetting user error, of course)

Iphone? meh. not interested.

Permalink 30/06/07 @ 05:33

Comment from: Ray [Visitor]

· http://lostaddress.org

My own Nokia is a few years old. It has a camera and a radio because that was the most basic model when I finally broke down and bought one. I frightened the spod behind the desk when I bought it: I said "I want a phone" and he started spouting all the goodies and I said "no. I want a *phone*, I already have a computer" and it went downhill from there :)

Permalink 30/06/07 @ 13:46

Comment from: oneandoneis2 [Member] · http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/

See, THIS is why people are more interested in the iPhone than in Windows mobile. People want a phone to be A PHONE. Not a general purpose device shaped like a phone.

The iPhone might be (Hell, the iPhone IS) expensive. The iPhone might be (Hard to say from this country) over-hyped.

But at least the iPhone has been designed to be good at being A PHONE.

Permalink 30/06/07 @ 18:01

Comment from: sinn3r [Member]

· http://sinn3r.org/

I do not want to have an iPhone. I like my Motorola C18, a phone like a brick :D

But the real reason is, what can the iPhone for the 500€. What makes it so special?

I don't think it is the innovation, they called it.
A report in TV about the iPhone says, "use can controll it completly with your fingers". Woohoo :D
Great and new feature ;)

Permalink 01/07/07 @ 02:18