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One million AT&T users want an iPhone AT&T confirms heavy interest in Apple's iPhone Jonny Evans -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apple grabbed attention at a US mobile phone trade show last night. AT&T (aka Cingular) chief operating officer Randall Stephenson wowed the crowd during his keynote speech at the CTIA Wireless 2007 trade show when he pulled an iPhone out of his pocket. According to Reuters, the audience went quiet, "and the room lit with camera flashes." Stephenson confirmed it was the first time he had got his hands on an operational unit Stephenson confirmed that since Apple announced the product and its exclusive relationship with Cingular (now rebranded as AT&T), over one million people have asked the carrier to let them know when the new device becomes available. The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Kevin Martin, managed to get his hands on the iPhone just after the keynote, before Apple came along and took the iPhone away http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index...S&newsID=17614
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I'm sure more than a million people want an iPhone but I highly doubt that a million people (or more) are going to purchase one right off the bat.
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I don't want one unless they throw in 3G HSDPA/UMTS and make the price more reasonable.
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Still, don't underestimate the power of buzz. Since CTIA is relatively well covered in the trade and popular press, they are using this as a buzz marketing opportunity. If it really works as advertised, they'll have plenty of buyers. But buzz marketing is the proverbial double-edged sword. Something as radical as this really has to exceed expectations. If it doesn't, people and the press will turn on it in a flash. Remember the Newton? SW
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for some reason I will have to agree with the numbers. I personaly know at least 30 people (that talked about it openly) that have put their name on the list and all say they want it on the first day it comes out.
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I would but I'm not a big fan of touchscreen anything. I feel like if it's going to be even more fragile than another devices.
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Why would I sign up to ask the carrier to let me know when the Iphone becomes available? Everyone knows it's coming out in June already. What's the big deal?
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The problem with announcing something several months in advance of its release date is that some customers may simply opt to buy something else in the meantime. I imagine the iPhone probably will do rather well, but I think it would probably do better if the announcement was closer to the release date.
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I for one have no desire to have an iPhone... -Jay
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I wouldn't mind having an Iphone..... just as long as I don't pay for it.
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Images: 157 | Now if there was a Microsoft Zune phone I would be very interested. I am just too much anti-Apple to consider any iPhone, even if it was made by Motorola (which I'm sure this one is not). -Jay
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This is what I use. It's pretty good, and the screen isn't really that dirty from my fingers. Sunlight washout is a bigger issue, but I don't use it much in the middle of the day.
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3G HSDPA/UMTS i just don't know how they will do it.
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To me, if it's going to function as an ipod, it'd better have 30 gigs in it.
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I have no desire for the iPhone either, but if it was given to me for free with no contract extension, then I would be in. | |
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Images: 130 | Wouldn't that be rather dumb to have it disabled by software? 3g would be/will be a major selling point so if it's just a software thing I don't see why they won't update the software before releasing the phone instead of having people go to the store to get it reflashed after.
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Images: 130 | I would hope that the phone will have 3g by the time it is released. I think it was actually a rather dumb move for them to announce it first without having 3g capabilities...They want to sell an upper-level phone like that without 3g??? When I heard that I thought they are nuts.
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| It is predicted that Many will Jump Carriers to get this Phone. Cell phone users eyeing Apple iPhone Device set to ship in June, cost $499 to $599 with a contract BY JEFFERSON GRAHAM USA TODAY Sunday, April 1, 2007 LOS ANGELES -- Priya Sanghvi wants an Apple iPhone from AT&T's Cingular Wireless when it comes out in June, and she is already strategizing how to get it. Now a Verizon Wireless customer, she's exploring a range of options, including trying to wrestle with Verizon to let her out of her contract early, using one of the new online swap services to dump the remaining months of the contract, or even just paying the $175 early-termination fee. "I just switched from a Dell to an Apple laptop and love the Mac lifestyle," says Sanghvi, 22, a recent graduate of New York University. "I never go anywhere without my iPod and cell phone. Now, I'll only have to bring one device with me." Cingular will be the exclusive U.S. carrier for the iPhone. The multifunction device is expected to ship in June and cost $499 or $599 with a two-year contract. Part-iPod, part-smartphone, it is already one of the most eagerly anticipated gizmos of 2007. Like Sanghvi, Atlanta software customer service manager Nate Mansfield is ready to dump his Verizon service with a year remaining on his contract, even though he's perfectly satisfied with it. He's got iPhone fever, though he's never seen the phone in person. He says that from what he's read about it, he expects it to be a more productive tool for his business. Mansfield loves a feature that lets you see a list of voice mails and tap the list to access a particular message. "This way, I can just tap the ones I want to hear and be able to tell, at a glance, who has called me, without having to listen to every voice-mail message," he says. Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the sleek iPhone in early January at the Macworld conference in San Francisco. Since then, it's been the talk of the Web. Consumers are turning to blogs and Web sites to chat up the iPhone and trade tips on whether they can get out of an existing contract to sign with Cingular. "People are desperately looking for ways to cancel their service so they can get the iPhone," says Meghann Marco, associate editor of The Consumerist Web site. "I've never seen anything like this." Charles Golvin, an analyst at Forrester Research, thinks many consumers will switch to Cingular for the iPhone but says most will simply pay an early-termination fee or wait out their contracts. http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.../1068/BUSINESS
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DISCLAIMER: Again, I am aware how silly this sounds coming from someone who drools over the just-over-the-horizon mobile device but that sentence struck me as rather odd.
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