Thread: An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator.

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"Well today, we're introducing THREE revolutionary new products. The first one is a widescreen ipod with touch controls"
"The second is a revolutinoary new mobile phone."





"An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator.... these are NOT three separate devices!"



"And we are calling it iPhone!"



"The problem is really in the bottom 40% -- keyboards that are there whether you need them or not. They have control buttons that are fixed in plastic. Every app wants a different button. You can't add new buttons. How do you solve this problem? We solved this problem -- we solved it in computers 20 years ago. A bitmap screen that can display anything we want -- with a pointing device."

"So how are we going to take this to a mobile device? Get rid of all the buttons, and just make a giant screen. So how are we going to communicate? We're going to use a stylus -- no. Who wants a stylus?? Yuck!"

"So let's not use a stylus, we're going to use the best pointing device in the world -- our fingers. We have invented a new technology called multi-tuch. It works like magic, you don't need a stylus, far more accurate than any interface ever shipped, it ignores touches, mutli-finger gestures, and BOY have we patented it!

"We have been very lucky to have brought a few revolutionary user interfaces to the market -- the mouse, the click wheel, and now Multi-Touch. Each has made possible a revolutionary product, the Mac, the iPod, and now the iPhone. We're going to build on top of that with software. Software on mobile phones is like baby-software. Today we're going to show you a software breakthrough. Software that's 5-years ahead of what's on any other phone."

"iPhone runs OS X!"

(OS X on a phone, ooooh goody!)
My guess is that its graphics chip is an NVIDIA GEFORCE Go class GPU.

"We've also got some stuff you can't see -- 3 advanced sensors. It's got a proximity sensor, bring the iPhone to your ear and your display shuts off and toushccreen shuts down. Ambient light sensor -- adjusts brightness, saves power. Third thing is an accellerometer, it can tell whether you're in landscape and portraid. Let's turn it on."

OH MY GOD!
FANGASM ALERT! *FAINTS*



I shall hereby toss my 80GB iPod, PSP and RAZR V3x in the trash can.

so... multi touch is just a fancy name for a laptop mouse?

Originally Posted by coolpuprocks

so... multi touch is just a fancy name for a laptop mouse?

Nope, touchpads are limited to a couple of touches or so at once. The multi-touch thing is on-screen touch control over many areas simultaneously.
I read the patent application some time back last year. >.>



Ah this is a cool use of the multi-touch control:
Open up a photo on the iPhone and resize them using two fingers, kinda like how you stretch dough.

Woah Finally, Kudos to Apple,
this is what I always wanted.

Now what they need to improve is iTunes, I still don't like how iTunes works.

wait, multi-touch was patented by apple?

Originally Posted by flash

Woah Finally, Kudos to Apple,
this is what I always wanted.

Now what they need to improve is iTunes, I still don't like how iTunes works.

wait, multi-touch was patented by apple?

Yeah.
No other touch screen put there recognizes more than a touch at a time. Heck, look at your ATM and DS.

There is a voice in my head, telling me to get one of these ...
That's very strange ...

I made a thread about the iphone a couple of weeks ago, but yours is better.
And now i want to buy one.
Really really bad.

Ill make my quetions short n simple.

How many body parts am i gonna have to sell to buy this and when can i buy this.

this. is fucking orgasmic... i need to change my pants...

im thoroughly unimpressed... seems to be a reinvention of the wheel, i need to find out moar specs and features!!! btw lets just hope theyre more reliable than iPods... cuz whoooo.... +_+

... im just waiting for the part when they say it costs $500... then all your smiles will disappear.

$599 for the 8GB one.
Dirt cheap.