I WAS excited by the Iphone, I am due a new phone and having experienced the frustrations (and potential expense ) of trying to sync Nokia's and Sony Ericsson's to a Mac, something that is designed for with that in mind as a primary function, should have me salivating. And it did... but then I started reading round the specs.
- GSM connection not GPRS - so this baby is going to be SLOW and nightmarish if updates are done over the network.
- Closed system - ok mixed reports on this but it does seem despite (like the MAC) being essentially Unix based, developers are being kept out. There are some good reasons for this but I am not entirely sure this is going to help the phone.
- 2 Megapixel camera and no video - thats pretty rubbish for Mac which positions itself as multimedia player.
I could go on but won't for now.
Ok there a lots of good things - like gorgeous design, however, I can see usability issues with the design and problems with broken screens.
It is still an interesting concept but a bit over hyped. I think this is probably the first smartphone that is aimed at the leisure market and so probably has a higher chance than normal of ending up i the pockets of students.
But lets for a minute think about the MAC business model $400 - $500 in the States for Mac usually means £400 - £500 in sterling. Thats a lot money for a piece of kit that is still limited.
Assuming Apple get over these issues then it a year or two it might be something desirable.
However, given that they stuck an 'i' on the front of it, it'll probably be a storming success
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