Cellphone carriers have long sought the next big thing to produce the sort of revenue they now collect from customers who use their handsets simply for talking.

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Following last week’s splashy Macworld keynote delivered by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the Internet is awash not only with images of Jobs being dwarfed by a gigantic iPhone replica, but also with speculation about how Apple might change the world of handhelds and smartphones.

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Besides making technophiles weak in the knees, industry experts say that Apple’s new iPhone device may be the catalyst that propels mobile media usage—particularly Web video—to new levels, with advertising opportunities soon to follow.

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It’s been less than a week since the iPhone was announced and the product is not even expected to ship for another six months, but Apple is aggressively protecting its Mac OS X-like interface on the iPhone.

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Any chunk of interesting hardware can become more interesting with new software applications. Apple’s new iPhone certainly has the potential to run new applications, and its various motion sensors, radio networking, and computing features all beg for full exploitation in software.

long story at roughlydrafted

Imagine this.

You’re standing in line at Starbucks and you hear the new Bob Dylan album playing over the commanding bark of the barista and the throaty whine of foaming milk. You decide that you want to buy the whole Dylan album on the spot. You pull out your mobile phone and the free Wi-Fi gateway provided by Starbucks greets you and asks if you’d like to purchase the album. You browse the online music store with a few clicks and buy the songs.

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OS X weighs in at less than half a gig, thanks to expertise of Apple team

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People with camera phones fall squarely into two camps: those that care about the camera (and actually use it) and those that don’t. Count me in the camp that doesn’t really care that much about the camera in my phone because I usually have a better (real) camera with me.

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What’s a name worth?

To find out, Cisco Systems and Apple may spend millions of dollars in a high-stakes legal battle—and the winner could walk away with the rights to the name iPhone.
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, Cisco asked a judge to forbid Apple from using the name iPhone, a Cisco trademark since 2000. The case hinges in part on whether Apple’s phone—unveiled Tuesday to much fanfare—could confuse shoppers looking to buy Cisco’s iPhones.

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One thing that seems to have gotten lost in the fray with all this iPhone hullabaloo is what is going to happen to the iPod now. Sure, the iPhone is a phone mixed with an iPod, but not everyone wants to spend $600 and get a phone/tablet with their music player. Apple has spent so much time and money getting TV shows and movies into the ITMS there’s no way they won’t release a new, high capacity multimedia player with the same slick widescreen format for people who don’t want to make the jump to the iPhone.

All at gizmodo

Sweet, glorious specs of the 11.6 millimeter device (that’s frickin’ thin, by the way) include a 3.5-inch 480 x 320 touchscreen display with multi-touch support and a proximity sensor to turn off the screen when it’s close to your face, 2 megapixel cam, 4GB or 8 GB of storage, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR and A2DP, WiFi that automatically engages when in range, and quad-band GSM radio with EDGE.

Perhaps most amazingly, though, it somehow runs OS X with support for Widgets, Google Maps, and Safari, and iTunes (of course) with CoverFlow out of the gate.
nerd details and nice photos of the keynote engadget

At CES this week, reaction to the device was decidedly mixed. There were several consistent concerns. One, price. Two, the appeal of typing on a touch screen may be limited. And three, the decision not to choose a 3G network, which means data speeds will be fairly slow. And four…did I mention the price?
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I actually got my hands on one. For all of ten minutes. Ten minutes isn’t much, but I can safely say that the iPhone is even more impressive than it appeared during the Jobs keyote. And that’s saying something.
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Some commentators have questioned the high price of the iPhone. At $499 for a 4-Gbyte device and $599 for an 8-Gbyte model, it easily tops most of the smartphone offerings that will be its main competition.
unstrung has the details.

Cisco Systems said Wednesday it has filed a lawsuit against Apple over the use of the iPhone name.

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Steve Jobs unveiled his breathtaking iPhone vision Tuesday, calling it a “magical” device that would “change the world” when it ships in June.

Jobs’s use of the word “magical” hit the nail on the head. His keynotes are more than just speeches. They’re magic shows.
pcworld

AAPLE stock hits all-time high, investors must have a lot of trust in the new announced iPhone by Apple Inc.
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