Apple’s Online Store will be taking orders for the beginning today at 6:00 p.m. PDT.
Analysts estimate that the company will sell from 200,000 to 1 million iPhones today. There are two versions, a 4-gigabyte model and an 8-gigabyte model. service contracts, including mobile Internet access, start at $60 per month.
Earlier this year I posted about Apple’s negotiations with Cisco for the rights to the trademarked name .
Tomorrow, June 29, the much heralded goes on sale with cellular service provided by .
Two iPhone models will be sold: a $499 version with 4 gigabytes of memory and an 8-gigabyte model for $599. Both have a touch-screen display (no buttons) and access to e-mail and the Web.
Here’s a compilation of the features culled from Apple’s iPhone site:
Introducing iPhone
iPhone combines three amazing products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.
Widescreen iPod
iPhone is a widescreen iPod with touch controls that lets you enjoy all your content — including music, audiobooks, videos, TV shows, and movies — on a beautiful 3.5-inch widescreen display. It also lets you sync your content from the iTunes library on your PC or Mac. And then you can access it all with just the touch of a finger.
Revolutionary Phone
iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows you to make a call by simply pointing your finger at a name or number in your address book, a favorites list, or a call log. It also automatically syncs all your contacts from a PC, Mac, or Internet service. And it lets you select and listen to voicemail messages in whatever order you want — just like email.
Breakthrough Internet Device
iPhone features a rich HTML email client and Safari — the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device — which automatically syncs bookmarks from your PC or Mac. Safari also includes built-in Google and Yahoo! search. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background over Wi-Fi or EDGE.
High Technology
iPhone features the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse. It’s an entirely new interface based on a large multi-touch display and innovative new software that lets you control everything using only your fingers. So you can glide through albums with Cover Flow, flip through photos and email them with a touch, or zoom in and out on a section of a web page — all by simply using iPhone’s multi-touch display.
Intelligent KeyboardiPhone’s full QWERTY soft keyboard lets you easily send and receive SMS messages in multiple sessions. And the keyboard is predictive, so it prevents and corrects mistakes, making it easier and more efficient to use than the small plastic keyboards on many smartphones.
Apple will sell the combination cell phone, media player and wireless Web-surfing device with help from AT&T, the largest U.S. mobile-phone service, which said that more than 1 million customers have expressed interest in the device. AT&T is the only current service provider and has exclusive iPhone rights for two years.
If your requires service only because the battery’s ability to hold an electrical charge has diminished, Apple will replace your iPod for a service fee of $59, plus $6.95 shipping. You will lose any data on your iPod because your songs and files will not be transferred to your replacement iPod.
As this Youtube video demonstrates, you can replace your own and not lose your files by getting an iPod battery kit for less than the Apple price. You can always choose to get cash for your old iPod as well.
Get your Apple iPod MP3 batteries at factory prices and same day shipping.
[tag]Naked PCs[/tag] are personal computers sold without an Operating System (OS) installed.
Dell offers n-Series desktops and laptops that are shipped without any operating system. If you happen to buy any of these “Open Source” Dell Systems, the first thing you would want to do is install an OS in order to boot the system. (The [tag]Dell n Series [/tag]desktops have a non-formatted hard drive ready for OS installation.)
This could be a good way to go for existing owners of Windows XP/Vista or even Linux fans who love Dell machines but hate shelling out that extra money for the Microsoft OS which they will probably never use.
Are you looking for a desktop on which you can run Linux® or other open-source operating systems? Look no further!
Dell’s
solution provides customers with a Dimension E520, E521 or C521 desktop without an installed or included Microsoft® operating system. With the n Series desktop, customers have the flexibility to install an (such as a version of Linux® ), and help reduce the price of this system. In addition, the n Series desktop comes with a non-formatted hard drive ready for your custom installation.
User’s can install Windows, Linux, or any other OS without having to first wipe a Dell software preinstallation. Dell’s n-Series first started shipping without an operating system in September 2002.
Hang an old laptop in the kitchen or hallway to create a touchscreen Web panel and message center.
1. Find an old laptop: Any PC or Mac will do. We used a five-year-old IBM ThinkPad.
2. Enclose it: We welded a frame out of perforated steel, but you could use plastic, wood or even cardboard.
3. Add a touchscreen: The MagicTouch overlay plugs into a USB port and costs $160 at touch screens.com, but you can find similar models on eBay for as little as $40 (some require a stylus). Be sure to get one made for a laptop (not a full-size monitor) and matches your screen size.
4. Give it Wi-Fi: Use a PC-card adapter, because it leaves your USB ports free for the touchscreen and keyboard.
5. Plug in a keyboard: Instead of trying to type on the vertical laptop, we added a Logitech PlayStation keyboard to the flip-down panel, which is activated by a lever and stops at 90 degrees for easy typing.
From Popular Science Magazine’s wall mounted pc.
How does technological innovation disappear for so long and then reappear in another form centuries later?
It looks like something from another world — nothing like the classical statues and vases that fill the rest of the echoing hall. Three flat pieces of what looks like green, flaky pastry are supported in perspex cradles. Within each fragment, layers of something that was once metal have been squashed together, and are now covered in calcareous accretions and various corrosions, from the whitish tin oxide to the dark bluish green of copper chloride. This thing spent 2,000 years at the bottom of the sea before making it to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, and it shows…This is the Antikythera Mechanism. These fragments contain at least 30 interlocking gear-wheels, along with copious astronomical inscriptions. Before its sojourn on the sea bed, it computed and displayed the movement of the Sun, the Moon and possibly the planets around Earth, and predicted the dates of future eclipses. It’s one of the most stunning artefacts we have from classical antiquity.
No earlier geared mechanism has ever been found and nothing close to its sophistication appears again for well over a thousand years.
“It’s still a popular notion among the public, and among scientists thinking about the history of their disciplines, that technological development is a simple progression,” he (Francois Charette) says. “But history is full of surprises.”
Read more about the mystery of the Antikythera Mechanism at Nature.
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