Time names iPhone Invention of the Year

[naveen_reloaded]

Nice finish

 

[narangz]

Nah it aint over Arya has not replied yet! This vicious circle will continue

 

[drgrudge]

[Checking from the first page....]

Please don't say iMate! I've used Windows Mobile OS 2003, 2005, 6, CE and all the stuffs. I've seen and used extensively (working for Trimble). It's not good. I never recommend Windows Mobile unless one is into business/email/internet (even for that Blackberry is far better). Now I've not used iPhone, so dunno how it would fare for these applications.


My friend is going to Colorado next week and I think I might get an iPhone.

 

[a_k_s_h_a_y]

so i guess Time Magazine wants to loose credibility
how can it be invention of the year.. nothing great in iphone...!
no ground breaking or some thing great in its cretaion

or did the iphone save the world or something ??
there are much more better ground breaking discoveries and inventions..

this is an insult to all those scientists working day and night and finally some thing low end like iphone being awareded

or may be Time mag is cheap and hopeless magazine now

 

[aryayush]

As far as I remembar Apple was indeed rumord to have in deal with Moto back in 2005. It was said that Apple will make the software while Motorola will make the hardware. I guess this is why the Motorola iTunes phone came in market. It was believed that the Apple phone will be something like that....who knows maybe it was Moto's design that Apple used in iPhone.

LOL! Apple used Motorola's hardware design? WOW! This just keeps getting ridiculous, doesn't it!

Arya, u definately don't know anything about the technological industry, Apple's history before u bought your Macbook Pro

Oh, I do. I know a lot. I don't generally like to beat my own drum but I'm pretty sure that after having read five books about Apple's history from different perspectives and even having authored one myself, I am quite knowledgeable about what happened before "I bought my MacBook Pro".

How's that for being smug, huh! 8)

 

[naveen_reloaded]

Yöü authored a book?

 

[aryayush]

Co-authored, actually - with Milind (goobimama) and Anand (mail2and). It was the Fast Track to Apple and was bundled with the Digit magazine in the month of July, 2007.

 

[naveen_reloaded]

Thats great,but yöü have to realise that moto was actually a part in development in iphone..i dont know whether they shared or did something...
The thing yöü are calling as moto and itune player is only iphone now,they called it that way when the project was started...

And sorry i dont know about the fast track,coz i have stopped buying digit!
Anyway good work mate..

 

[aryayush]

Thats great,but yöü have to realise that moto was actually a part in development in iphone..i dont know whether they shared or did something...
The thing yöü are calling as moto and itune player is only iphone now,they called it that way when the project was started...

That's a crazy theory you have going there, dude. Motorola never had any hand in the development of the iPhone. No one at Motorola had any clue that there was going to be an iPhone.

Apple wanted to get involved in the cellphone business. They partnered with Motorola to get their foot in the door. The partnership probably taught them a lot of things about the cellphone industry. Steve Jobs was never going to stick with just developing the software for other companies. Apple is not Microsoft. They had to make the whole thing - the hardware and the software. And Motorola definitely was not going to have any say in that.

I don't know how to be any clearer. Apple is not like every other technology company in the world. They roll on their own. They do stuff differently. Sometimes the outcome of this approach is negative but most times it works.

Anyway, believe whatever you want to. I'm just letting you know that Motorola had absolutely no hand in the development of the iPhone, the product itself. And I don't want a debate on this matter now. You can debate among yourselves if you wish to.

 

[aryayush]

Time names iPhone the Top Gadget of 2007

Time names iPhone the Top Gadget of 2007
Saying that iPhone “changed the way we think about how mobile media devices should look, feel and perform,” Time Magazine put iPhone at the top of its list of “Top 10 Gadgets.” iPhone’s design, Time says, “is exceptional inside and out: It’s got a slick glass-and-stainless steel case and an elegant touch screen loaded with eye candy. It’s an iPod and a 2-megapixel camera. Images and video clips display vertically or horizontally—they reorient themselves depending on how you hold the thing. When the phone detects a wireless network within range—your own home wi-fi set up or somebody else’s—it lets you tap once to connect, and then proceed with your Web surfing, Google mapping, emailing and other activities.”

 

[gagan007]

I am using it. Too many shortcomings. iPhone s**ks miserably. I would suggest nobody to buy this. Apple are successful in giving the world the best MP3 player, it should stick to that only. In a way iPhone is just an iPod with a facility to make and receive calls, plus one camera.

Its bluetooth cannot be connected to other bluetooth devices(only iPhone to iPhone).
You cannot forward an SMS!!!!!!!!!!!! What the Hell !!!!!!
Plus many more things that make it an aweful device!

iPhone Sucks!
This is the title it deserves! I used it for just 10 minutes and was bored. I mean what's there I can do with it? Listen to music or just fool around with that 'multi-touch' screen? Hell! Even a 6600 is better than that piece of iCrap.

Only one thing I appreciate about it- Now other companies will concentrate on "Oh so cool UI". And yes, I want features, more features for that amount of money(Yes I know and I use every single feature of my Symbian based phone)
I wonder if TIME is run by apple fanboys.

I completely second that...
If you cut out the iPod....the Apple is surviving only becuz of its hard-core fans who cheerly take up anything created by them. Their OS, the MAC and now this iPhone. Each product is full of so many lapses that you will forget the count (ok here I over-reacted!!!).

 

[goobimama]

Again. What it doesn't have. Doesn't anyone look for positive qualities anymore?

 

[gagan007]

goobimama...i have all respect for you buddy, but when we have so many advance communication devices (SmartFones) why to buy an expensive device which is good only for listening to songs (plus some eye-candy features which need 620MHz processor as against 220 MHz processors in most of the phones)?

I am telling you based on my personal experience. It is available in Hyderabad for 21K only. Go ahead buy that. You will regret!

 

[goobimama]

- Have you used ever used the internet browser on a "smartphone"? It might even display the page correctly. But what you can't do is take your two fingers and zoom in. Then pan around with smooth scrolling.

- Have you tried the photo viewer on the "smartphone"? Have you ever been able to flick your finger through each photo? and then have a rubberband animation when you come to the end? Yeah. These things make the overall experience different.

- Tried using a music player on a phone? I won't even start...

- Email? This is basically a joke on smartphones except for maybe those blackberry phones I think.

As for forwarding SMS and such, yeah, these features should have been implemented from the start. But for the slew of other features that are integrated into this device, it certainly doesn't 'suck'. Remember, there's going to be an SDK soon for the iPhone which means you can install software without any hacking (which isn't that difficult anyway).

I'm sure Apple is going to add services like video recording, forwarding SMS and other such small timers.

As for the 21k, it does seem like a fine price to go in for. I'm really tempted, but I guess I'll hold off until it is officially released here. (btw, are you selling yours?)

 

[fun2sh]

hey but it has already been declaired invention of 2007!!!!
and again times is makin it gadget of year!!! why so???

 

[MetalheadGautham]

I still feel, that ecept for the competitive pricing, nothing makes an iPhone worthwile. Whats there in it that makes it better than other "inventions" ? Its just another mobile phone. Reviewers talk of it asthough its the first time they ever saw a mobile phone with PDA capabilities.

1. Looks

WTF the phone looks good. duh big innovation

2. Google Maps

Google too is starting a phone software now. There are many phones with internet. Opera Mini can run google maps. What do you know? Time forgot about it.

3. Music Functionality

Many phones have music player capabilities. This is just a crude merger of an iPod and an average mobile. Its not like no one ever thought and planned such a concept before.

4. OSX

Just because it runs OSX, it does not become the most advanced phone around. Ever heard of Windows CE? Ever thought of Pocket Linux?

5. @gagan

exactly true. The shortcommings are often too obvious. There is nothing uniquely special about this phone.

6. @goobimania

But we are talking about Invention of the Year tag that TIME gave it. Positive qualities, yes, but not as positive as hyped.

About iPhone - The Verdict:

The iPhone is another good mobile phone entering the market. But its not soo good as to make it the invention of the year. There was nothing in it that was a drastically new concept. Eye-Candy, Music Player and Internet in a mobile phone are age old thoughts. I have nothing against the iPhone, I only have everything against those who give it more credit than it deserves. All this media, entertainment magazines, lifestyle advocates, etc are just a source for nonsence and bullshit, who take over the simple minds of the masses. As a person who knows atleast something, I feel that the iPhone has been toooo misjudged. The i tag Apple gives its products insults the word intelligent. The iPod was a decent product, but that too has been shadowed on, atleast in the eyes of Audiophiles, by Cowon iAudio D2 and A2. Hype and Fanboys are good for the marketer, but not for the simpletons and beleivers who constitute a good chunk of the Human Population. If the iPhone got this much credit, how come the EEE PC, or the N97 or the Asus Lambourghini did not get that much hype? I can guarentee you that if Apple releases a 20K lappy, say iMini, it will surely go overboard in terms of reviews. This is plain unfair. Unfair to the maximum. The same goes even for other products, like Vista and Leopard. When they shwed eye-candy interfaces, all newspapers, tv channels, magazines, etc raved about it and embraced it. But no one even botered about Compiz Fusion, which is surely better looking than its rivals. This is hypocracy. In the long run, when humans evolve better brains as time goes on, this will result in a bad image about us in our successors. Lets let the iPhone keep its dignity, but lets not embaress it by over doing the "this phone rules the world" thing. Lets leave it to those who get paid to tell such lies(TV Channels as Advertisements).

 

[iMav]

goobi the thing is that people do see the good but in this case the negatives heavily out weigh the goods so matter how good the internet browsing is as long as u cant forward a sms ur gonna say wtf is this device simply coz sms is a basic cell fone feature not being able to do it properly is what makes the fone a disappointment

In the iPhone's case the negatives out weigh the good by a huge margin and therefore the device is getting the flack

 

[Batistabomb]

this is not a pretty perfect i think

 

[naveen_reloaded]

Dont worry i nowadays dont read anything from times.they suck...
Well said metalheadgautham

 

[gxsaurav]

- Have you used ever used the internet browser on a "smartphone"? It might even display the page correctly. But what you can't do is take your two fingers and zoom in. Then pan around with smooth scrolling.

Hmm...ever used a browser in a smartphone which has a "Joystick" or "Nevigation Pad" to do the same

- Have you tried the photo viewer on the "smartphone"? Have you ever been able to flick your finger through each photo? and then have a rubberband animation when you come to the end? Yeah. These things make the overall experience different.

Hmm.,..nah, again the Joystick" or "Nevigation Pad"

- Tried using a music player on a phone? I won't even start...

Try using the music player on a SE Walkman phone or Nokia N Series Music Edition phones.?

- Email? This is basically a joke on smartphones except for maybe those blackberry phones I think.

Lolz...have a look at N73 ME's e-mail client, plz.