I *HATE* devices with hard drives, because an HDD is a mechanical device with a motor, and it eats energy VERY FAST! Flash memory is a MUCH BETTER solution, because it has no mechanics, and doesn’t eat much energy. You will have to recharge this device once per week or two.

Amen to that, brother. I have fortunately been spared this horror, but I have friends with iPods where the hard drive mysteriously collapsed. Battery life is also, as you said, much better with flash memory. Case in point: an iPod has 20 hours of battery life, a nano has 24, and the iPod’s battery is much larger! Another similar case, but with optical media instead, is the PSP. My friend hacked one so that he could play PS1 games on it (off the Memory Stick) without buying them, and the battery life is twice as much as when playing games on UMDs!

Jack of all Trades wrote:

they still need to replace the flash with either a Hard drive (like samsung i believe) or to give more flash

I *HATE* devices with hard drives, because HDD is a mechanic device with motor, and it is eating energy VERY FAST! Flash memory is MUCH BETTER solution, because it have no mechanics, and doesn’t eat much energy, you will have to recharge this device once per week or two.

not to mention it can crash, especially in a movable device like a cell phone.
well, they can always wait for the new flash HD that Sandisk started to sell as a replacement for the laptop drive. they just need to be a bit smaller.

they still need to replace the flash with either a Hard drive (like samsung i believe) or to give more flash

I *HATE* devices with hard drives, because HDD is a mechanic device with motor, and it is eating energy VERY FAST! Flash memory is MUCH BETTER solution, because it have no mechanics, and doesn’t eat much energy, you will have to recharge this device once per week or two.

1. Apple did not announce a widescreen iPod, they were talking about the iPhone.
2. Mac OSX Mini is not the full OSX, but does use the actual OSX kernel. It can not use OSX apps, or vice-versa.

A couple things I want to point out:

1. Since it can run Dashboard widgets as apps, it would be almost effortless to program your own iPhone app with some basic functionality.
2. If they could cut the price and (eventually) pick up some other networks, this could easily become the most popular phone ever.
3. The real purpose of the iPhone is to stop PDAs and phones from taking precious iPod market share.
4. In see cell phones separating into four classes: basic (those crappy flip-phones with 1-MP cameras), upscaled (RAZR-type-things, but with at least semi-decent technology), high-end consumer (iPhone, Q, Blackjack), and business (Blackberry). Upscaled and high-end consumer would be similar, but high-end would be much more smartphone-like.

P.S. I wonder how much Cingular had to pay to get exclusivity?

CoryC: I agree, there are a lot of great features with this iPhone. Seeing as this does run a real operating system, it could go beyond where current PDA’s and Pocket PC’s can go right now. All around it’s raising the bar for a lot of companies.

Now, whether or not I’m willing to pay for it is another story. And Cingular isn’t exactly who I’d want to sign my life away with for 2 years.

well, this is it. the beginning of the end.
it was just a matter of time when a single device will be able to operate as a communication device and a multimedia device. and this phone is the first to offer both.

they still need to replace the flash with either a Hard drive (like samsung i believe) or to give more flash and an expansion slot, and shove in one of those 7mp camera with big zoom that i also believe samsung is offering.
then all we need is some sort of central location to hold all our files, bookmarks and so one (some1 said google-something?) and it will b it.

the next stage will be to use some sort of a foldable screen (e-ink), which should take about 2-5 years in my opinion, and have a more robust input options – AKA true voice and hand write recognition.a fuelcell or a motion based recharger (just announced this month).

but the best thing to do is to dump that illogical combo with singular and sell this baby worldwide.
go Apple!!!

Now, whether or not I’m willing to pay for it is another story. And Cingular isn’t exactly who I’d want to sign my life away with for 2 years.