Checkout the Apple iPhone

**Carlos_E** · 01-11-2007, 06:51 PM

Originally Posted by elvisinturn1

Actually, it doesn't matter. The first generation and second will be the "same" in regards to hardware. the only difference is the operating system. If you buy the first release, when the update comes out you can download the "updates" to make the first one as good as the second. Imagine doing a "software update" like you would on your computer. That's the beauty of OS X on the phone.

Will a software update enable 3G support or is that hardware based? I want 3G so does that mean I have to wait until next winter to get one?

**dan991** · 01-11-2007, 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by Carlos_E

Will a software update enable 3G support or is that hardware based? I want 3G so does that mean I have to wait until next winter to get one?

It will just be APN information and provisioning "firmware." It's an "Over the Air" update you can download and install. Keep in mind this phone is running "full blown" OS X software. It doesn't have all the functionality as a desktop running OS X, but it has the core of it. That's why widgets and stuff can be added. It's OS X "lite" but it has pretty much the same stuff. It's no different to do updates on the phone than it is to do it on a desktop.

The phone itself does have an HSDPA compatible radio on it. It's just waiting for PTCRB cert. on the HSDPA over UMTS schemes. Once the firmware is CTIA complaint, you can just download the firmwareware "patch."

**Sepsis** · 01-11-2007, 07:11 PM

i read on some stock site that they are secretly planning on releasing this phone on jan 15 after their big macworld show stirs up a big hype about it. any truth to this?

***G-1000*** · 01-11-2007, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by Carlos_E

Hey! That was the day after and he knows. I get a leasing discount as one of my benefits. He's already car shopping.

Nice wheels.

I bet he dont know the truth.

**dan991** · 01-11-2007, 07:25 PM

Originally Posted by Sepsis

i read on some stock site that they are secretly planning on releasing this phone on jan 15 after their big macworld show stirs up a big hype about it. any truth to this?

Go watch the keynote. Pay CLOSE attention, then look at this:

http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsS...licKey=2727138

**thebritskie** · 01-11-2007, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by manwithin

cisco owns the trademark to "iphone" so it's not going to be iphone that much I know...

Someone's been watching Jim Cramer!!!

The second show of the new year he recommended Apple as a stock to buy for 2007 because they were going to unleash the newest phone. In the same episode he also recommended Cisco and said that they had the rights to iPhone though.

This is all meaningless to the original thread, but in the past month I have become very interested in investing.

**Carlos_E** · 01-11-2007, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by elvisinturn1

Go watch the keynote. Pay CLOSE attention, then look at this:

http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsS...licKey=2727138

I have no clue what I'm looking at.

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**abstrack** · 01-11-2007, 10:45 PM

Originally Posted by Carlos_E

My new position... Not only do I get a Sony discount... I can buy Apple products at our corporate discount price. The limit is something like 10 products a year so i can't go into business selling computers on ebay.

Bastard! I just bought a new MacBook

**Carlos_E** · 01-11-2007, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by Gsxxr

Nice wheels.
I bet he dont know the truth.

We tell each other everything.

**Jakspro** · 01-11-2007, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by Carlos_E

I have no clue what I'm looking at.

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Yea i second that...

**dan991** · 01-11-2007, 11:52 PM

Originally Posted by Carlos_E

I have no clue what I'm looking at.

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Something they said they were "waiting on" that is already done. Look at the URL

**Carlos_E** · 01-12-2007, 06:15 AM

Originally Posted by elvisinturn1

Something they said they were "waiting on" that is already done. Look at the URL

Ahh, OK.

**CSAR** · 01-12-2007, 08:21 AM

I saw during Steve Job's presentation of this new iPhone, Apple stock rose $7. Plus, he ordered 4000 lattes for all those who attended. Rich bastard...

**Carlos_E** · 01-12-2007, 12:53 PM

An article on Canoe Network helps flesh out the conflict between Cisco and Apple over the dispute between the iPhone name and the suit Cisco has filed against Apple claiming it violated one of its trademarks.

In the suit, filed Wednesday, Cisco asked a judge to forbid Apple from using the name "iPhone", which Cisco has held as a trademark since 2000.

According to the article, Apple initially inquired after Cisco to acquire or license the rights to the iPhone name. Upon refusal of these names, Cisco claims that Apple embardked on a campaign of "confusion, mistake and deception" and created a shell company called Ocean Telecom Services LLC to sidestep these challenges.

In an application submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trade office during March of 2006, Ocean Telecom described itself as a foreign company offering services in Trinidad and Tobago.

As of Thursday, an Apple spokeswoman declined to comment on Ocean Telecom,

In spite of criticism form both sides, Apple recently calling Cisco's lawsuit as "silly", Cisco spokesman John Noh claimed that Cisco was still willing to negotiate with Apple with regard to the name. Noh claimed that Cisco executives would like to let Apple use the term "iPhone" on the condition that the companies' phones be able to communicate with each other.

Of course the do! They know Apple is going to sell millions of these things, and Cisco wants a piece of the pie!

**taufeedawg1** · 01-12-2007, 03:40 PM

This phons is sweet. I just wish I had 600 big ones to put into it.

**Carlos_E** · 01-12-2007, 09:09 PM

Originally Posted by SVTMuscle

That thing is awesome, I wish Verizon got it!

Originally Posted by STYLE74

Damn that phone looks crazy. Can I get that phone with Verizon service?

Originally Posted by firmechicano831

I'm really hapy with my ipod from Apple. Its really user friendly so I expect the same from the iphone. I have Verizon now but I will defenetly give Cingular a try. Anyone else making the move just for the phone.

Originally Posted by aadrenaline

i wanty too bad i have verizon

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