New iPhone Has Everybody BuzzingThe new iPhone debuts June 29 and the buzz surrounding it is nothing short of astonishing.
On Monday, Mike Elgan Framingham of ComputerWorld.com pointed out six facts everybody needs to know about the iPhone before purchasing one.
1. The iPhone is a communications mixed bag, with support for IMAP, POP3 and Yahoo Push email.
2. When you're watching a video on the iPhone and a call comes in, the video will automatically pause while you take the call, then resume when you hang up.
3. The iPhone does not offer Global Positioning System capability.
4. Third-party applications will be allowed only as web-based applications loaded from the internet on the iPhone's Safari web browser.
5. In order to use an iPhone, buyers will be required to first set up an account with the iTunes store using their credit cards, even if they have no intention of buying anything there.
6. We already knew that iTunes would provide sync capability between iPhone and email, contacts, calendar, photos and other data on both PCs and Macs.
From EnGadget.com:
Apple's tooting its own horn about some new spec upgrades to its imminent iPhone. No, it's not 3G, GPS or anything crazy like that, but we'll settle for a battery life upgrade anytime, and screen durability doesn't hurt neither. Apple claims that its preliminary estimates of 5 hours of talk time, internet use and video playback were a tad conservative, and the iPhone instead will be boasting of 8 hours of chatting, 6 hours of internet and 7 hours of video. Audio playback has been boosted from 16 to 24 hours, and standby is at a welcome 250 hours. Of course, Apple does have tendency to exaggerate slightly on the battery life front, but these are promising figures, and should manage to provide a day or two's worth of solid use out of the thing. On the screen side, Apple has upgraded the original plastic surface of the phone to some "optical-quality glass" to improve scratch resistance and clarity. Check after the break for a handy battery life chart.
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