Apple iPhone

**Stuart** · 09-01-07

Hi People,

Well I kind of new it was coming from the research I do in my day job - I wonder when it will hit the shops in the UK

http://www.apple.com/iphone

What are peoples first thoughts?

Regards
Stuart

**getvisible** · 09-01-07

Looks like I better stop faffing with my new security system and start building a site around the iphone domain I bought last year - grrr too much to do!

Does look neat though!

**spatny** · 09-01-07

Hi,

They say it will be available in Europe around the last quarter of 2007. Its going to be hot at Christmas

Peter

**krush** · 09-01-07

£350 i heard

**preventx** · 09-01-07

I want one! not sure if I can hold off not getting a upgrade till quarter 4

**reveroom** · 09-01-07

Oct 2007 is apparently when it will be available. Personally, although it looks fantastic, I'm disappointed they didn't go with the 'sim free only' route that was rumoured. I think that is likely to hit them a bit in terms of wide-scale takeup.

Overall, the keynote was disappointing really - Macworld without anything to do with the Mac. And here I was sat with credit card in hand :-(

**renegade** · 09-01-07

I like it when Apple announce products and have them in-store straight away. Having to wait until Q4 is going to be torture and it all depends which UK network they do a deal with - although I'll still get one anyway if I'm honest with myself. Looks super, the Apple chief designer was born in Essex don't ya know

**accelerator** · 10-01-07

Blogged it:

http://navito.blogspot.com/2007/01/a...-launched.html

I wonder if the touch sensitive screen will make it difficult to dial one-handed.

Rgds

Accelerator

**skywalker** · 10-01-07

Apple have done it again - no guesses as to which phone we will all want... - the Keynote address is well worth a watch - compulsive viewing (its 2:30am amd i'm still watching....)

click here for the "Keynote address"

ps: interestingly enough this is the first url to come up in Google for "iPhone" - appleiphone.blogspot.com

pps: Apple shares rose 700 today! nice if you had a spread bet on it lol

**shyguy0507** · 10-01-07

Heard about this this morning

Going to be looking it up later for more info but from what i've heard it sounds good, an iPod and a phone

**rob.co.uk** · 10-01-07

The 'slide to unlock' feature is just brilliant. It will be interesting to see how the touchscreen works long term if being used for finger taps rather than stylus taps.

**jklondon** · 10-01-07

what I am really expecting to happen now is that the other handset manufactures will get their R&D guys working absolute overtime now to come up with potential range of competing handsets towards the end of the year (but there a great chance they knew about this before us!) Theres no doubt apple seem to have done it again but I dont expect the other manufactures (nokia,motorola, SE) to take this lying down and hopefully the consumer should benefit from this....

**Frostie** · 10-01-07

£300 +
4Gb Memory
2 year Contract
Available only on one network

Why would I want one when I can use a PDA thats cheap, available on different networks, can hold just as much music, has a stylus (so no greasy finger marks on screen), and with a switch of memory card, can run TomTom amongst other things.

Complete let down IMHO

**Gavinio** · 10-01-07

Why would you want an iPod when you've got a walkman/mini disc player/generic Mp3 player?

**Frostie** · 10-01-07

walkman.... Cos I dont want to carry 10,000 casettes around with me
mini disc.... Cos I dont want to have to pay for a new disc everytime I want to purchase an album
generic Mp3 player.... I have no idea