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Re: iPhone version 2 coming.

Alex — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:07:33 GMT

Too 'Vista' for me, although I did have it for a few hours. Got sick of it though!

Re: iPhone version 2 coming.

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:13:37 GMT

I'm looking forward to Leopard too, I have the grass wallpaper on my Mac already.

Re: iPhone version 2 coming.

Alex — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:29:35 GMT

I agree with Flappo. It's way out of my price range (as much as I would absolutely love one), and I'm far more interested in Leopard.

I friend has downloaded it and says it's still DEFINITELY a Beta with the way it runs. Time Machine is slow graphically and it just generally doesn't seem very finished considering they gave us a beta a year ago. Cover Flow is nice though apparently, although a lot of apps still have small BMP based graphics rather than nice new PDF ones. PhotoBooth backdrops is still very glitchy though, even though it seemed to work well in the keynote.

Re: iPhone version 2 coming.

soundproof — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:41:00 GMT

I suspect it's going to be a phenomenal AV-media control device, though ...

Re: iPhone version 2 coming.

Flappo The Grate — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:53:26 GMT

it's a shame that apple are using all their resources on this bloomin iphone rather than on making new mac pros etc i'll be glad when the damn thing's out and we can get on to something interesting , personally i detest mobile phones and the loud mouthed morons that seem to use them

iPhone version 2 coming.

soundproof — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:28:43 GMT

Those of us living in Europe should count ourselves lucky. By the time the iPhone hits the continent, it will already have been upgraded.

Apple Planning V2 iPhone For Macworld San Francisco

David Richards - Sunday, 24 June 2007

The new Apple iPhone could be obsolete by the time Macworld San Francisco comes around in January 2008 insiders have said.

Apple has already spoken to their manufacturing partners in Asia about the next generation of the iPhone with SmartOffice being told that major software and hardware changes are expected to be introduced to cater for non US markets such as Europe, Asia and Australia.

Among the new capabilities will be GPS and expanded WiFi capability as well as the ability to sync with email servers. Apple research and development executives are according to sources in Taiwan trying to overcome a lack of expanded media support for Flash memory.

In Australia there is also concern that the phone in it's present configuration will not be fast enough to handle the Telstra G Network which is described as the world's fastest mobile phone network in the world.

With the planned debut of Apple's iPhone, The President of the Consumer Electronics Association Gary Shapiro asked four senior executives their opinions of the introduction and if it is, as some have claimed, the most important introduction in CE of the past 20 years.
Ron Garriques, president/CEO of Dell Global Consumer Group, Stan Glasgow, president/COO of Sony Electronics, Stewart Muller, president/CEO of Philips Consumer Electronics, and Joseph Taylor, a Vice President at Panasonic were members of the panel that were asked the question by Gary Shapiro, president at the annual CE Presidents Summit.

Ron Garriques, president/CEO of Dell Global Consumer Group, said, "If you can reset in the consumers' minds that cell phones can be priced at $499 to $699, instead of the thinking that it is just $1, that's good." He echoed the view of his colleagues that "the marketing and hype surrounding iPhone is good," and said that even if iPhone isn't all that it is supposed to be "you know that they are working on iPhone2, iPhone3 and 4 versions."