iPhone First Impressions
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
John Gruber (Daring Fireball) gives us his iPhone First Impressions. Pretty darned good if you ask him. Great news.
I predict that all of the cool features of the iPhone, minus the phone, will be in a future iPod. That will be the Palm killer that we’ve been waiting for. The iPhone is a Palm Treo killer but maybe not a Palm sans-phone killer. I’d love to have a small wifi device that will sync my contacts and calendars back to my computer and browse the web minus the phone. I’d love a phone too but would love a copious iPod (60 gigs) with this kind of UI. This will be what many have called a tablet PC. In fact the iPhone is a tablet PC, just a bit smaller in a different box. The tablet PC makes less sense as a big screen minus the computer (the failed Microsoft model) and more sense as a Palm-like or iPod-like device. It’s coming and it’s what I want.
[via Daring Fireball.]
Hi Richard!
Man I am so excited! Totally gutted though, that we poor English chaps and chapesses cannot have one for a few months! Have you bought one yet!?
Jon
Jon, No, I’m not getting one for a bit, but I certainly want one. We have very poor cell reception here and I’m not getting any cell phone until I can dump our land lines entirely and just use cell. Maybe a year. Maybe less. I love it though and want whatever device they come out with next sans-phone.