09 January 2007

Apple announce crippled iPhone The buzz at Macworld is the new apple iPhone. Featuring touch screen, slick user interface, 802.11b/g/n, bluetooth, quadband the handheld looks very nice. Pitty it won't work in New Zealand any time soon. It's pricey at US$499 on a 2 year contract with Cingular Wireless - one of the US's largest telcos. It's major drawback: it won't run non-apple software. Most americans have a similar attitude to Cingular as New Zealanders do to Telecom. They were the monopoly until 12 years ago, and they've steadily worked their way back to near-monopoly status with a recent merger with AT&T. The iPhone runs OS X, has gesture based controls (good for scrolling and scaling) and desktop quality applications. I can't wait to run Linux on it. Related external news Wikinews, 17 Jan 2007: [concerned with iPhone icons' alleged misuse|Apple concerned with iPhone icons' alleged misuse] Wikinews, 12 Jan 2007: [sues Apple for iPhone trademark|Cisco sues Apple for iPhone trademark] Wikinews, 10 Jan 2007: [introduces iPhone and Apple TV|Apple introduces iPhone and Apple TV]