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4 Responses to “The Aye Phone?”

1. on 15 Jan 2007 at 7:06 am1 Alan coady

   iRight!

   
   
2. on 15 Jan 2007 at 9:38 am2 John Connell

   Alan beat me to it! The ‘Aye Right’ Phone might be closer given its price.

   
   
3. on 15 Jan 2007 at 10:37 am3 David Gilmour

   It’s not just the price: John Naughton makes these points in his Networker column in yesterday’s Observer::

   Will its screen scratch as easily as the iPod Nano’s does? Will it be as unreliable as the iPod range appears to be? (I speak from bitter experience.) Why does it have a built-in battery, just like the iPods? Will users have to send their phones back to Apple when the batteries give up the ghost? How robust is the mobile version of OS X - the phone’s operating system? Why is the mobile connectivity not 3G? And how did Apple come to overlook the awkward fact that the ‘iPhone’ name belongs to Cisco?

   And in the same paper Armando Iannucci reveals some innovative features of the new iPhone that most reviews of the launch event didn’t even get round to mentioning!

   
   
4. on 15 Jan 2007 at 1:48 pm4 SalVal

   Love the Ianucci article - I was truly gobsmacked at the avalanche of adulation from Mac fanboys/girls (on the net and within the media) following the Jobs keynote. I’m just glad that finally some of the criticism is finally coming through over the usual Apple flaws - ie, it’s expensive, crippled through DRM, and locked out to third party developers.

   
   

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