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iPhone Details Leaked

by Tom Samiljan on June 11, 2007 at 10:14 AM




The first 15 pages of the supposed sales training manual for the iPhone made the rounds of the tech blogs over the weekend. While the details revealed may or may not be based in reality, they certainly made for fun discussions. Here are some of the highlights:
  • No GPS or TeleNav applications found on BlackBerry 8800 and other AT&T smartphones.
  • No MMS (multimedia messaging), though users can e-mail pictures and videos to other email addresses.
  • No IM.
  • Users can simultaneously talk on the phone and Web browse when using Wi-Fi.
  • No one-touch dialing.
  • Vibrate mode is a go.
Now, GPS we can live without, since it isn't a standard feature on most other competing smart phones (yet), but the lack multimedia capability or access to AT&T MediaNet (email, movie listings, online video and music, ringtone and wallpaper downloads) are omissions found on almost no other AT&T phones (even cheap ones) these days.

We've already accepted the lousy 8-gigabytes of onboard memory (and no expandable memory), meaning the iPhone can hold only about as many songs as a Nano, but these latest drawbacks make us wonder whether you should seriously hold off until a second-generation iPhone comes out.

That said, the make-or-break-feature on the iPhone is the touchscreen keyboard. Tech industry veteran John Dvorak says he's got inside information that the iPhone keyboard isn't quite up to snuff. If they keyboard doesn't live up to the hype delivered by Steve Jobs back in January, then users staying with their keyboard-covered BlackBerrys, at least until iPhone 2 comes out. (Let's not forget that, compared to Apple, BlackBerry-maker RIM has been at the smart phone game for quite a while now.)

Stay tuned for details from today's Steve Jobs keynote, in which he may reveal more details about the iPhone, as well as a myriad of other alluring possibilities.

From Engadget.


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