-Steve: "This is a day I've been looking forward to for two and a half years. Every once and a while a revolutionary product comes around that changes everything..."
-Widescreen iPod
-Touchscreen controls
-2nd mobile phone
-Breakthrough internet communications device
-Widescreen iPod, revolutionary mobile phone, breakthrough internet communications device all in ONE DEVICE
-Called iPhone, officially
-"Most phones are hard to use, but iPhone is smarter than anything else and is very easy to use
-Been under years of development
-Interplay of hardware and software
-Comparing to blackberry and treo. Nobody wants a stylus, and get rid of the buttons! Make a giant screen.
-Uses fingers & multitouch, works like "magic"
-Ignores unintended touches
-iPhone runs OS X and has "everything you need"
-Apple "reinvents" the phone
-iPhone version of OS X runs Core animation, desktop class applications
-Apple is learning from the iPod--shipping 100 million iPods this year
-iPhone syncs with iTunes, just like the iPod and syncs all of the media on your phone
-Has a cradle to sync just like the dock
-Syncs music, movies, podcasts, TV, photos, contacts, e-mail, notes, bookmarks, calendars, etc. all through iTunes
-3.5" screen, highest resolution screen ever shipped
-160 pixels per inch
-One button on the front, "Home" button
-11/16" thin
-On the back, there's a 2 Megapixel camera
-Takes a SIM card
-3.5mm headphone jack
-One switch for sleep and one for wake, integrated speaker
-When you bring it to your ear, it turns off the display and sound with a proximity sensor
-iPhone has 3 advanced sensors
-Has an accelerometer and an ambient light sensor
-Saves power
-iPhone has CoverFlow, "You can touch your music"
-Interface has Cingular logo on top (booo)
-Clock and battery plus signal at the top
-The move to widescreen is automatic, and when done it moves back
-Sundial moves while loading
-built-in speaker for iPhone/iPod
-Visual voicemail
-Supports GSM + EDGE, WiFi, Bluetooth, quad-band phone
-Push "phone" button on the bottom of the screen and it changes like Dashboard
-Big icons: mute, keypad, speaker, add call
-Make a list of favorites, touch one and call
-iPhone does e-mail
-Visual voicemail lets you see all voicemail and click who you want to hear and it plays back over the speaker
-Play back your voicemail in any order
-Button for multiple-session SMS messaging
-Keypad buttons to touch message, has bubbles like iChat
-Photo feature lets you see all photos, just like iPhoto
-Use "pinch" to make photos bigger
-iPhone can use photos as wallpaper
-Any IMAP or POP e-mail, can support rich HTML e-mail
-iPhone uses Safari, can use Google Maps, widgets
-EDGE and WiFi switches automatically
-Announcing with Yahoo!, free IMAP e-mail to all iPhone customers
-Push IMAP e-mail
-Can look at mail in splitscreen view, fullscreen, or preview
-For web browsing, it can show the whole page and the landscape/portrait switch is automatic
-Pinch the screen to increase the size of view using MultiTouch or double tap screen
-Can view multiple web pages
-Can load multiple pages--one page shrinks somewhat and slides off to the side, similar to the effect in Expose
-Still shows the whole page though--just double tap and it zooms
-Change web pages by using "almost" a coverflow to get to a different page
-iPhone has GPS
-Stuff like Google Images supports satellite images
-Google search built-in as well as Google Maps
-Google's Eric Schmidt says it's like a merge without merging
-WiMAX is coming
-Yahoo! search is also built in, as well as Yahoo! IMAP mail
-Yahoo launching some new services for the iPhone: Yahoo Go and One Search
-5 hour battery life on iPhone for talk time
-16 hours for just audio/iPod functionality
-Price for iPhone is $499 for 4GB version, $599 for 8GB version
-Shipping in June
-Europe support by Cal4 this year
-Asia in 2008
-Phone is Cingular-exclusive right now in the US
-Available via brick & mortar and online retail stores
-Only available from Cingular or Apple
-Multi-year exclusive partnership with Cingular

I"m at work now, and I just heard it on the TV. What's the price set at for the iPhone now? I'd imagine it'll have quite a hefty price tag.

The brilliance of iPod (other than it making lots of profit) is that it has brought attention back to Apple and their computers as well.

a) it's probably not economically feasable to make an affordable Apple quality phone otherwise.

b) It's good for Apple for bring business world's attention to itself and their computers as well. Especially now that Vista is coming out, and many are considering the available alternatives.

As stated above, "Price for iPhone is $499 for 4GB version, $599 for 8GB version."

That's stupid. Phones are better at better at being phones, iPods at being iPods, and Blackberries at being Blackberries.

Just slapping more crap onto one device does not make it revolutionary or a good idea.

The iPhone looks pretty stylish. At $599 for the upper end model with a two year contract, I think that the $199 Blackberry Pearl is going to find a lot of eyes on it. The biggest problem that I see with the iPhone is that it's looking like a jack of all trades, master of none. You can't type as fast with the touchscreen (vs. a Blackberry/Treo), a regular MP3 player is going to hold more stuff and a regular cell phone will have longer battery life. I like how my phone lasts a week between charges, my mp3 player doesn't hold out so well. I can live with a dead mp3 player for a day, if I don't have my phone it can mean trouble.

We'll see though. Apple has the marketting thing down pat, so I'm sure it'll sell. 1% of the cell phone market sounds pretty ambitious...

The iPhone looks pretty stylish. At $599 for the upper end model with a two year contract, I think that the $199 Blackberry Pearl is going to find a lot of eyes on it. The biggest problem that I see with the iPhone is that it's looking like a jack of all trades, master of none. You can't type as fast with the touchscreen (vs. a Blackberry/Treo), a regular MP3 player is going to hold more stuff and a regular cell phone will have longer battery life. I like how my phone lasts a week between charges, my mp3 player doesn't hold out so well. I can live with a dead mp3 player for a day, if I don't have my phone it can mean trouble.ambitious...

Suing thing is so common, and gets really lame- It happens to Microsoft too.
Im sure Apple will win. Apple Inc

Thats not true if apple can prove that cisco has allowed other products to be released under the name without their permission. You can loose a trademark if you don't defend it, if someone else uses it and you do nothing, then you loose rights to it, thats the reason companys usually sue in the first place, they have to to defend their trademark.

You have to actually use a name for it to be applicable. You cannot simply claim a name as a trademark and sit on it until you decide to use it at some point in the future.

An Xbox 360 isn't very portable