Comments on: And Jobs begat iPhone…

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:18:20 +0000

According to CJOH news last night, it’s coming this summer on Rogers.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:17:32 +0000

From what I understand, the phone, at least in its current incarnation, is GSM based. That means Rogers would be the only one who could support it right now. Everyone else in Canada is CDMA.

If they do change the technology to support either, then you’re right… there is going to be a huge bidding war for the rights.

By: Martin Hofmann

Martin Hofmann — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:57:27 +0000

For owners of the BlackBerry Pearl, bragging has just become more difficult, if not a thing of the past.

I wonder who Apple will partner with in Canada. According to Kris Abel’s blog Apple Canada hasn’t made a decision yet on when to release it here. With number portability for cell phones supposedly coming to Canada this year, it could be an incentive for people to switch to either Telus, Bell or Rogers if only one of them gets exclusive rights to the iPhone for Canada.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:59:15 +0000

It’s funny… people are talking about how expensive it is, but I’m looking at a Treo right now with about half the features and only 60MB of space for about the same price.

Smartphones are expensive. The iPhone isn’t out of the ordinary on price point.

By: Duane Brown

Duane Brown — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:14:07 +0000

Yeah, those are the prices. I was taken back when I saw it a few minutes ago. I’m sure those are the American prices, so I want to know what we’ll get changed here in Canada as well as what the phone plan will be like. It’s an exciting time. Knowing that the iPhone will work together much like iTunes and Mac OSX, is a dream come true. I can’t wait.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:57:14 +0000

Yeah – it’s expensive. Something like $499 for the 4GB and $599 for the 8GB. It will undoubtedly go down as it gets more popular. The iPod cost roughly the GDP of Kenya when it came out.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:51:33 +0000

Yea, I have to say, I was impressed when I saw it. I’ve always been sort of amazed nobody came out with a straight-up touch screen phone/pda/mp3 player before. I’m sure it won’t be long before people are making their own interface skins and everything else.

Any word yet on price? That’s where Apple has always sort of handicapped themselves – they do price fairly high compared to their (admittedly inferior) competition.

And on that note, anyone else wonder how the hell they manage to sell any of the new Nanos? $250 for a 6 GB nano or $300 for the 20 GB video… makes no bloody sense.