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Mayor John F. Street was among the first to get a coveted iPhone on Friday, waiting in line, on and off, for almost 15 hours and forced to defend the effort when a passer-by asked about the city's skyrocketing murder rate.
Hundreds of people who lined up to be among the first to get their hands on Apple Inc.'s coveted iPhone are now the braggarts and guinea pigs for the latest must-have, cutting-edge piece of techno-wizardry. The doors of Apple and AT&T; stores opened promptly at 6 p.m. EDT with cheers from employees and eager customers.
On the eve of the day of reckoning for the most-hyped gadget in recent memory, eager customers lined up Thursday, a few even braving torrential rain, to be among the first to get their hands on the coveted new cell phone from Apple Inc.
Among consumers, the excitement around Apple Inc.'s iPhone, launching on Friday, centers on its cool looks and innovative interface. In the cell phone industry, the iPhone will be closely watched because it breaks several conventions governing the relationships between handset manufacturers, carriers and consumers. If successful, Apple could end up changing the way phones and the industry work.
The most eagerly awaited cell phone ever is upon us Friday. Should you resist the iPhone's breathless hype, or take the plunge? Unless you're already standing in line outside an Apple or AT&T; store, or are prepared to mug one of the first customers to come out after the 6 p.m. launch, the answer, at least for now, will have to be "let me think about it for a week or two."
For Jessica Rodriguez, waiting four days for an iPhone is nothing when the prize is "the next big thing."
Carlos Gomez could be the recording industry's ideal mobile music customer. His phone is his music player of choice and he spends about $100 a month buying songs for it — often on impulse after hearing a tune on his car radio. That's why he's not buying an iPhone.
As the Friday launch of the Apple iPhone neared and anxious customers formed lines to grab one, AT&T; Inc. announced Tuesday that service plans for the hotly anticipated smart phone will start at $59.99 per month.
Even for a company that's mastered the art of product-launch hoopla, Apple Inc. appears to have pulled out all the stops to propel iPhone hysteria into the stratosphere.
There's hype. There's hysteria. And there's history. The hype around Apple Inc.'s upcoming iPhone is abundantly clear. So is the hysteria. But how the iPhone will leave its historical mark after Friday's launch is to be seen.
Customers clamoring to get their hands on Apple Inc.'s highly anticipated iPhone better make sure they're at the right store.
Apple Inc.'s highly anticipated iPhone will be available June 29, according to both TV commercials broadcast Sunday night and a company spokesman.
Apple Inc. received the required approval Thursday from the Federal Communications Commission for its upcoming iPhone, the company said.
Samsung Electronics Co. has unveiled a new mobile phone that features some of the sleek design and functions of Apple Inc.'s much-hyped iPhone.
Pablo Gonzalez, a Prada shoe-wearing cell phone connoisseur who jumps from one new handset to the next, is ready to ditch his $1,000 touch-screen cell phone for Apple's iPhone when it becomes available in June.
Apple Inc. will have plenty of room to eventually reduce the retail price of its upcoming iPhone, according to preliminary gross margin estimates by a market research company.
South Korea's LG Electronics Co. said Thursday it will start selling next month a new mobile phone that incorporates a buttonless touch-screen resembling the much-hyped iPhone from Apple Inc.
The iPhone has arrived, but it's not made by Apple Computer Inc., which was widely rumored to be working a cell phone-iPod combination of the same name.
Apple launched iphone this year with the hopes of repeating ipod history. But will history repeat itself or the iphone will just be hyped launch and nothing else apart from a reason for apple's losses. I think it will not live up to the hype
Google is set on Wednesday to launch a new feature in its Google Maps for Mobile program that automatically sets your location even in phones that lack a global positioning system (GPS) device.
A new version of Google Maps introduced this week includes a beta feature dubbed My Location that was designed to simulate the GPS experience on mobile phones and handheld devices that do not include GPS hardware, like Apple's iPhone.
iPhone is now on the streets of Europe. Apple is giving certain developers an early version of the iPhone SDK and plans on selling third-party iPhone apps through iTunes next year.
Verizon Wireless plans to give customers more choice in what phones they can use on its network.
In the first half of our 2007 Readers' Survey, you told us which vendors rock (or rankle) the world of desktops, notebooks, and printers. Now find out which companies will push you around and which will save your camera, MP3 player, cell phone, and more when trouble strikes.
In a major shift for the mobile phone industry, Verizon Wireless now plans to give customers more choice in what phones they can use on its network and how they use them.
Apple launched iphone this year with the hopes of repeating ipod history. But will history repeat itself or the iphone will just be hyped launch and nothing else apart from a reason for apple's losses. I think it will not live up to the hype it has created.
Some developers are gaining early access to Apple's iPhone and iPod touch software developer kit, according to reliable sources speaking to Electronista.
Though I still don't have an iPhone (waiting on 3G), I'm drooling for one even more after seeing a demo of wPhone, a fantastic WordPress plug-in that allows really intuitive, full-featured blogging on the iPhone (and even some crappier ones, like my old school Blackberry)
Some people use it to play music. Others marvel at the photo-browsing interface, and some of its users just want to look cool. I don't care about any of those things when I look at the iPhone. What I see is the breakout of the next major enterprise computing platform.
A Chinese company that is making an I-Phone clone is using my work to promote and advertise. more here: [link] here's a link to the company info: [link] It even appears they have used the image of Apnea for a theme - if not a mockup for advertising and promotion.
"The user experience has been a disaster," says Tony Davis, managing partner of Brightspark, a Toronto venture capital firm that has invested in two mobile Web companies.
iPhone made its German debut under T-Mobile exclusivity, competitor Vodafone cried foul. The rival service provider brought T-Mobile to court, and claimed that T-Mobile's bundling of a 2-year contract with each iPhone was a violation of German law.
The AT&T; Tilt is being called an iPhone killer (but what other PDA phone with a touch screen hasn't?), but in truth it isn't. Not because it has less features (it has more), and not because it is less functional (its more functional).
Apple's iPhone marketing has been a smash success at home, but it is running into stumbling blocks in Europe, where the touch-screen handset and music player is making its debut this month.
Why does Amazon.com think they can succeed where so many have failed?
In that spirit, Ars is offering up a list of events and developments in 2007 that we think fellow geeks should be thankful for. What are you most thankful for? For me, 2007 is all about the iPhone.
Deutsche Telekom, whose exclusive rights for the Apple iPhone in Germany are contested by the Vodafone Group, said yesterday that it would change some terms and let the handset operate on rival networks.
I've seen several bloggers write today about how T-Mobile in Germany is selling an unlocked version of the Apple iPhone for an outrageously high price of $1,477 (or 999 euros).
"If the passenger with the IPhone would be kind enough to use it to check the weather at our alternate, calculate our fuel burn due to being rerouted around the storms, call the dispatcher to arrange our release, and then make a phone call to the nearest Air Traffic Control cente …
I am an iPhone owner. I bought one .. oh about 3-4 months ago. Right before they dropped the price ... those bastards. Anyway, one of the things I was looking forward to was consolidating my podcasts and some music onto the iPhone. That way, I would not need two devices in my car.
Consumer gift list poll by the Wall Street Journal; 31.000+ votes and counting, and the iPhone (now adjusted to read "iPhone or iPod") is leading with a mindblowing 71% of all votes.
Amazon's Kindle reading device looks to hold a lot of promise. Though the media format and rights are being debated quite of bit, I think it's a lot more interesting to talk about the hardware.
When computer company Apple announced that they were planning to make a phone, most pundits felt sure that Apple would produce something a bit different from the crowd. An Apple phone would have to be a plush, prestige unit and the product of a thoughtful design process.
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