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And I just hope to god it isn't them or orange who get this in the UK. Though it deffo won't be 3 (with it not being a 3G handset, which is cool as 3 customer service is awful!)]]>Jan 10th 2007 5:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/
Palm refuses to slim their phones down and add Wi-Fi.

Apple will shake this shit up!
Dinosaurs be ware.
Thank god.]]>Jan 9th 2007 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/
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Responding to questions from New York Times correspondent John Markoff at a Churchill Club breakfast gathering Thursday morning, Colligan laughed off the idea that any company — including the wildly popular Apple Computer — could easily win customers in the finicky smart-phone sector.

“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”
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....I'll still be buying one ASAP. ]]>Jan 9th 2007 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/Jan 9th 2007 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/
Waiting for real reviews now. If its as easy and seemless as it looks, its just awesome...

but still pricey, and that's with a two year contract...

How much for an unlocked one, I wonder....



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I'm curious about just how scratch resistant this thing will end up being though, lord knows the iPod was already a disaster if left unprotected, and that didn't involve you putting your hands all over the screen.]]>Jan 10th 2007 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/
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Palm, on the other hand, is screwed. They've had years to innovate and chose to basically do nothing.

Anyone want to buy my GSM Treo 650 in June?]]>Jan 9th 2007 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/
"We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone," he said. "PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in".
--Ed Colligan, CEO of Palm. (Mercury News, Nov. 2006)

(from http://daringfireball.net/2006/11/colligan_head_stuck )]]>Jan 9th 2007 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/Jan 9th 2007 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/

data plans and phones are sold to enterprise users and we NEED our documents. That's the whole point. If Apple can't do that, then this is all going to be too expensive for the average Joe and not deliver core features to corporate america.]]>Jan 9th 2007 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/Jan 9th 2007 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/]]>Jun 19th 2007 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/Jan 9th 2007 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/
Apple is going to own the high-end consumer space, which RIM was picking up. If the iPhone wasn't announced, I would have purchased one. Palm, while still going, is in need of a consumer tie-in. This may simply mean more involvement with Microsoft. I can't see the Palm platform being extended. They don't have the resources.

If Apple created a messaging platform, or if Google created a licensable back-end system that IT folks could route through, things could get interesting. We're a bit overdue for some messaging/email innovation.]]>Jan 9th 2007 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/
All the major players will be in on the act (Flash, PDF viewers, "office document" viewers, RSS feed clients etc.)]]>Jan 9th 2007 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/Jan 9th 2007 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/Jan 10th 2007 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/
It should be obvious that this is a version of OS X specifically tailored for the phone. Call it "OS X mobile" if you will.

Hopefully they will release mobile office apps for OS X mobile, but they didnt say anything about it yet...

For one thing, everything is touch screen driven, so all the interfaces would probably have to be redesigned (unless you want some half-assed apps)
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i was looking so forward to this, but the $600 + no physical keyboard + no 3g + CINGULAR (which does in fact support 3g....) + lack of actual smartphoneyness(ability to install 3rd party apps like on wm5/palm)...
don't get me wrong, if there is a 2nd gen cheaper model and some homebrew from people, and DEFINATELY a price drop of some sort, i would be all for it.]]>Jan 10th 2007 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/Jan 9th 2007 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/
And I just don't see how they are going to deliver on battery life. ]]>Jan 9th 2007 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/
The most interesting thing to me is the fact that Apple has implicitly shelved the Mac OS on a PC for an OS that will run on phones/small devices. Image how much more money they could make if they licensed the OS on phones rather than PC's. 900+ million phones and growing by leaps and bounds. if they take just 1% of that jobs noted. What about 20%?]]>Jan 9th 2007 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/
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Around 12:21 eastern, somebody sold 1.67 Million shares of AAPL at 85.28, bumping the price down about 2.50. Talk about panic selling. AAPL then began to rise and is right now just below 92. Nervous Nellie is so eating $8 Million on that smart move.]]>Jan 9th 2007 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/Jan 9th 2007 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/
Motorola, Nokia and Samsung are all YAWNING.]]>Jan 9th 2007 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/Price point must be why Apple is trailing in the DAP market, and why they won't be able to do the same thing in the mobile market.

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try to think a bit further ...
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It runs OS X! With that type of developer base, this unit is fairly unstoppable...msoffice shouldn't be much of an issue at all.
Except for a)build quality issues on 1st gen, b)unlockability (fer us t-mo folks), and c)blackberry pearl resale market!]]>Jan 9th 2007 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/Jan 9th 2007 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/Touchscreen, QWERTY, 3G data, a decent form factor, good Windows integration, and a huge developer community... Yeah.

Who wants to bet Apple doesn't license OS X Mobile out to anyone else? pfft...]]>Jan 9th 2007 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/Jan 9th 2007 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/Jan 9th 2007 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/Jan 9th 2007 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/Jan 9th 2007 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/Jan 9th 2007 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/Jan 9th 2007 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/
Anyone using a smartphone with a keyboard isn't gonna ditch their Blackberry/Treo/Wizard for this. Seriously. The keyboard is what defines these things.

Right now, I think SE and Nokia should be more worried than RIM/Palm...]]>Jan 9th 2007 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/Jan 9th 2007 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-game-has-changed/
that's like saying osu will win the bcs game after watching the first 15 seconds of last nights game. you have no idea what's going to happen in the future. this is just the first few hours of the first day.]]>Jan 9th 2007 4:10PM