...when Steve Jobs takes to the stage at MacWorld and announces new Apple products :)

 

Apple hails phone 'breakthrough'

Apple has unveiled its long-awaited mobile phone, promising to revolutionise the handset market.

 

The device, a combined widescreen iPod, mobile phone and internet communicator, is just 11.6mm wide, with a touch screen and no button.

 

It will allow users to play music from iTunes and take photos.

 

Also revealed at the annual Macworld Expo was Apple TV, a device to stream music and movies from a computer to the living room.

 

Apple founder Steve Jobs told delegates at MacWorld in San Francisco: "Apple has reinvented the phone."

 

Details about pricing and availability were not available but the phone will use the network of AT&T's mobile unit, Cingular.

 

The phone, which will run Apple's OS X operating system, includes a 2 megapixel camera and 8 gigabytes of storage.

 

Apple shares were up 3% on the announcement.

 

Intel success

 

In a keynote speech, attended by more than 2,000 people, Mr Jobs spent the first 10 minutes bigging up the move to Intel chips.

 

He said more than half of Mac sales were to people who had never owned a Mac before.

 

There were the usual statistics about iPods and iTunes, including the claim that iPods had become the world's most popular video player and that iTunes had passed the two billion milestone.

 

The move to offer movies via iPods seems to have paid dividends. More than 1.3 million movies were sold in the first four months of the partnership with Disney.

 

A new partner - Paramount - was also announced and other movie studios are expected to join soon.

The iPhones features are amazing. The phone looks amazing. I think it's downfall is scratching of the screen.

Not the price then?

If you want to throw your money away, then go ahead.;)

I can quite happily live without it.:rolleyes:

I won't buy it mainly because:

 

1 - The cost

2 - I'm happy with my motorola

3 - It's not even 3G, so it locks onto the old old GDRS wap system in the UK, which is slower than Dial-Up

4 - I won't use much of the features.