The Steve Jobs keynote is going on at Macworld…surprisingly also called iPhone.
—Jobs says it combines iPod, phone, internet communicator….it has a touch-screen which uses a new Apple technology called multi-touch. And it runs on Mac OS X.
—It will sync songs/all media from iTunes, as well as contacts/calendar/notes etc. Has a 2 megapixel camera. It is being launched in conjunction with Cingular, as expected.
Other features: Quad-band GSM + EDGE phone, with WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 built in. 8 GB storage capacity. Widescreen video.
—More description from iLounge: One-touch conference calling. SMS texting—text messages with multiple sessions for multiple people at once. Keyboard does error prevention and correction. Powerful photo features. Safari web browser. Rich HTML email works with IMAP and POP. Google Maps. Weather, calculator, stock widgets. Yahoo to provide free Push IMAP email service for iPhone users.
—Google: Apple has developed the phone in partnership with Google….this is the fantasy world of millions of Apple fanboys come true. Uses Google search and Google Maps. CEO Eric Schimdt made a short presentation.
—Yahoo: Also Yahoo search (its new OneSearch product), Yahoo Go and mail services are build in. Jerry Yang gave a short presentation as well.
—The cost: 4GB model for $499 and 8GB model for $599, with two year Cingular contract. Will ship in June, and will sell in Apple and Cingular stores. Still needs FCC approval.
—This will not be an MVNO, and Apple has a multi-year exclusive deal with Cingular.
—Targets: Out of the 1 billion units to be shipped in 2008, it expects a one percent market share in 2008…meaning 10 million units.