[Apple] iPhone

[The Djinn]

Aνεβασε το φιλε Γιωργο και σε ευχαριστουμςε για τις φωτο!

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[Γιώργος]

Εδώ είναι, ολοκληρωμένο, ύστερα από σχεδόν δύο ώρες επεξεργασίας για να διαβάζεται ευκολότερα
(Έχουμε όμως καλό scanner )


Προτείνω να το εκτυπώσετε γιατί έτσι είναι ψιλοδύσκολο να βγάλετε άκρη
Επίσης πείτε μου πια σημεία νομίζετε ότι αξίζουν να μπουν σε bold.




Θυμίζω το άρθρο είναι από το περιοδικό TIME της 22/01/2007


ΤHΕ ΙΡHΟΝΕ STARTED ΟUΤ ΤHΕ WAY Α LOT OF COOL THINGS DO: As something completely different. Α few years ago, Steve Jobs nοticed how many development dollars were being spent-particularly in the greater Seattle metropolitan area-on what are called tablet PCs: flat portable computers that work with a touch screeninstead of a mouse and keyboard. Jobs, being Jobs, was curious. He had some Apple engineers noodle around with a touch screen. When they showed him what they came υρ with, he got excited.

So excited he forgot all about tablet computers. He had bigger game to hunt.

Jobs had just led Apple οn a triumphant rampage through a new market sector, portable digital music players, and he was looking around for more technology to conquer. He found the ideal target sitting οn his hip. Consumers bought nearly a billion cell phones last year, 10 times the number of iPods in circulation.

iPods in circulation. Break off just 1% of that, and you can buy yourself a lot of black turtlenecks. "It was unanimous that this should be it," Jobs says. "It wasn't eνen by a little, it was by a mile. It was the hardest one too." Apple's new iPhone, which will be aνailable in the u.s. in June, could do to the cell-phone market what the iPod did to the portable-musicplayer market: crush it pitilessly beneath the weight of its own superiority. This is unfortunate for anybody else who makes cell phones, but it's good news for those of us who use them.

The game is a little different this time. With the iPod, Jobs essentially created a whole new product category. The cellphone turf is already held by entrenched armies of phonemakers and service providers. They may not be as hip or innovative as Apple, but they wilI shred one another for nickels, and there are a lot of nickels οn the ground. One point of market share in the handset business is worth $1.4 billion. Μοtorola, haνing sold more than 50 million RAZRs with not enough to show for it, will likely be reverse engineering the iPhone before it hits the stores. "We already have cell phones and smart phones, so the marc ketplace is already very competitive," says industry analyst Jeff Kagan. "We have not seen Apple compete in the insanely intense, competitive wireless marketplace."

But it wasn't just the money. Cell phones interested Jobs because even though they do all kinds of stuff-calling, text messaging, Web browsing, contact management, music playback, photos and video-they do it very badly, by forcing you to press lots of tiny buttons and navigate diverse heterogeneous interfaces and squint at a tiny screen. ''Everybody hates their phone," Jobs says, "and that's not a good thing. And there's an opportunity there." Το Jobs' perfectionist eyes, phones are broken. Jobs likes things that are broken. It means he can make something that isn't and sell it to you at a premium price.

That was why, 2,5 years ago, Jobs sicced his wrecking crew of designers and engineers οn the cell phone as we know-and hate-it. They began by melting the face off a video iPod. Νο clickwheel, nο keypad. They sheared off the entire front and reentire front and replaced it with a huge, bright, νivid screenthat touch screen Jobs got so excited about a few paragraphs ago. When you need to dial, it shows you a keypad; when you need other buttons, the screen serνes them up. When you want to watch a νideo, the buttons disappear. Suddenly, the interface isn't fixed and rigid, it's fluid and molten. Software replaces hardware.

Into that iPod they stuffed a working νersion of Apple's operating system, OS Χ, so that the phone could handle real, nontoy applications like Web browsers and email clients. They put in a cell antenna and two more antennas for wi-fi and Bluetooth, plus a bunch of sensors, so that the phone knows how bright its screen should be and whether it should display νertically οι horizontally, and when it should turn off the touch screen so that you dοn't accidentally operate it with your ear.

Then Jonathan Ive, Apple's head of design - the Englishman who shaped the iMac and the iPod-squashed the case to just over 1 cm thick and widened it to what looks like a bar of expensive chocolate wrapped ίη aluminum and stainless steel. The iPhone is a typical piece of Ive design: an austere, abstract, Platonic-looking form that somehow also manages to feel warm and organic and ergonomic. Unlike my phone, Ive picks it υρ and points out four little nubbins οη the back. ''Yourphone's got feet οn," he says, not unkindly. "Why would anybody put feet οn a phone?" Ive has the answer, of course: ''It raises the speaker οη the back off the table. But the right solution is to put the speaker in the right place in the first place. That's why our speaker isn't οn the bottom, so you can have it οn the table and you don't need feet." Sure enough, nο feet mar the iPhone's smooth lines.

O.K., so it's pretty. Now pick it υp and make a call. Α big friendly icon appears οn that huge screen. Say a second call comes in while you're talking. Another icon appears. Tap that second icon and you switch to the second call. Tap the "merge calls" icon, and you've got a three-way conference call. It's ridiculously simple.

Another example: voice mail. Until now you've had to grope through your v-mail by ear, blindly, like an eyeless cave creature. Οn the iPhone you see all your messages laid out visually, onscreen, labeled by caller. If you want to hear one, you touch it. Done. Now try a text message: instead of jumbling them all together in your In box, iPhone arranges your texts by recipient, as threaded conversations made of little jewel-like bubbles. And instead of "typing" οn a three-by-four number keypad, you get a display of a full, usable QWERTY keyboard. Υου will never again have to hit the 7 key four times to type the letter "s".

Now forget about phone calls. Look at the video, which is impressively crisp and sharp. This is the first time the hype about "rich media" οn a phone has actually appeared plausible. Look at the e-mail client, which handles attachments, in-line images and HTML e-mails as adroitly as a desktop client. Look at the Web browser, a modified version of Safari that displays actual Web pages, not a teensy, deformed version of the Web. There's a Google Maps application that's almost worth the price of admission οn its own.

Ι do have nitpicks. Υου can't download songs onto iPhone directly from the iTunes store; you have to export them from a computer. And even though it has wi-fi and Bluetooth οn it, you can't sync iPhone with a computer wirelessly. And there should be games οn it. And you're required to use it as a phone - you can't use it without signingυρ for cellular service. Βοο.

But these are quibbles. The fact is, the iPhone shatlers two basic axioms of consumer technology. One, when you take an application and put it οn a phone, that application must be reduced to a crippled and annoying νersion of itself. Two, when you take two deνices-such as an iPod and a phone and squish them into one, both deνices must necessarily become lamer νersions of themselνes. The iPhone is a phone, an iPod and a mini-Intemet computer all at once, and they all-contrary to basic physics-occupy the same space at the same time, but without taking a hit in performance. In a way, iPhone is the wrong name for it. (Indeed, Cisco is suing Apple, claiming it owns the trademark.) It's a handheld computing platform that just happens to contain a phone.

Why is Apple able to do things most other companies can't? Partly by charging for it: the iPhone will cost $499 for a 4-GB model, $599 for 8-GB. And partly because unlike most companies, Apple does its own hardware, its own software and its own industrial design. When it all takes place under one roof, you get a kind of collaboratiνe synergy that makes unusual things happen.

Apple also places an unusual emphasis οn interface design. It sweats the cosmetic details that don't seem very important υntil you really sweat them. ''Ι actually have a photographer's loupe that Ι use to make sure every pixel is right," says Scott Forstall, Apple's vice president of Platform Experience. "We will argue over literally a single pixel." As a result, when you swipe your finger across the screen to unlock the iPhone, you' re not just accessing a system οf nested menus, you're entering a tiny universe in which data exist as bouncy, gemlike objects. Υου can actually pinch an image with two fingers and make it smaller. Because there's no mouse or keyboard, just that touch screen, there's a powerful illusion that you're physically handling data.

Of course, Apple's other secret weapon is the controlling hand οf Steve Jobs, 51, for whom this is an almost mystically significant year. It has been five years since the iPod launched, 30 years since Jobs cofounded Apple (with Stephen Wozniak) and 10 since he returned there after having been fired. Ιn that decade, Apple's stock has gone υρ more than 1,500%. Neither age nor success - or cancer surgery in 2004 - has significantly mellowed him, although some οf the silver in his beard is creeping υρ into his hair. ΑΙΙ technologists believe their products are better than other people's, or at least they say they do, but Jobs believes it a little more than most. He calls the iPhone "the most important product Apple has ever announced, with the possible exception of the Apple ΙΙ and the Macintosh. It's also going to be an incredible revolution for the whole industry."

Jobs' zeal for product developmentand enforcing his personal vision-remains as relentless as ever. He keeps Apple's management structure unusually flat for a 20,OOO-person company, so that he can see what's happening at ground level. There is just one committee in the whole of Apple, to establish prices. Ι can't think of a comparable company that does no-zero-market research with its customers before launching a product. Ironically, Jobs' personal style could not be more at odds with the brand he has created. If the motto for Apple's consumers is "Think different," the motto for Apple employees is "Think like Steve."

The same goes for Apple's partners. The last time Apple experimented with a phone, the largely unsuccessful ROKR, Jobs let Motorola make it. "What we learned was that we wouldn't be satisfied with glomming iTunes onto a regular phone," Jobs says. "We realized through that experience that for us to be happy, for us to be proud, we were going to have to do it all."

Apple's superiority complex can inspire resentment, which is one reason for some of the Silicon Valley schadenfreude over Jobs' current stock-options woes. Αn internal investigation has cleared Jobs, but a federal investigation and a shareholder lawsuit are still going forward. (Jobs declines to talk about the options issue.) Taking pleasure in seeing a special person knocked down to size is a great American pastime. But there's nο point in pretending that Jobs isn't special. Α college dropout whose biological parents gave him up for adoption, Jobs has presided over four major game-changing product launches: the Apple ΙΙ, the Macintosh, the iPod and the iPhone; five if you count the release of Pixar's ΤΟΥ Story, which I'm inclined to. He's like Willy Wonka and Harry Potter rolled up into one.

That doesn't mean Apple can operate beyond the boundaries of the Securities and Exchange Commission. But the iPhone wouldn't have happened without Apple's "we're special" attitude. One reason there's limited innovation in cell phones generally is that the cell carriers have stiff guidelines
that the manufacturers haνe to follow. Carriers demand that all their handsets work the same way. "A lot of times, to be honest, there's some hubris, where they think they know better," Jobs says. "They dictate what's οn the phone. That just wouldn't work for us because we want to innoνate. Unless we could do that, it wasn't worth doing." Jobs demanded special treatment from his phone-serνice partner, Cingular, and he got it. He eνen forced Cingular to re-engineer its technical infrastructure to handle the iPhone's unique νoice-mail scheme. "They broke all their typical process rules to make it happen." says Τοny Fadell, who heads Apple's iPod diνision. "They were infected by this product, and they were like, "We'νe gotta do this!" "


Now that the precedent has been set, it will be interesting to see if other cell-phone makers start demanding Apple-style treatment from wireless carriers. Stanley Sigman, Cigular's president and CEO, committed his company to the iPhone two years ago sight unseen, but he appears understandably eager to play down the uniqueness οί Apples deal. "Ι think the interesting aspect οf it is our willingness and ability to work together, to allow Cigular to be Cingular and Apple to be Apple," he says. "We have great relationships with other manufacturers. But he's clearly brought a product to market that's years ahead οf anybody else." It will also be worth watching to see how successful competitors will be in knocking off the iPhones all-screen form factor, which will be tricky without Apple's touch-screen technology. Apple has filed for around 200 patents associated with the iPhone, building an imposing legal wall.

Will the iPhone succeed? Well, what's success? Apple will break the 100 million mark with iPods this year (it also passed 2 billion songs sold οn iTunes). Jobs says he wants to move 10 million iPhones by the end οf next year. That number is well in character as far as its ambition goes. The iPhone is exclusiνe to Cingular for now, and Cingular has only 58 million custorners. Jobs hopes to launch in Europe late this year and Asia in 2008. The iPhone is too beautiful and too brilliant not to be a moneyrnaker, but it'll be a slow bumby iPod standards.

Perhaps it's not quite right to call the iPhone reνolutionary. It won't create a new market or change the entertainrnent industry the way the iPod did. When you get right down to it, the deνice doesn't eνen haνe that rnany new features-it's not like Jobs inνented νoice mail, or text rnessaging, or conference calling or mobile Web browsing. He just noticed that they were broken, and he fixed them.

But that's important. When our tools don't work, we tend to blame ourselves, for being too stupid or not reading the manual or having too-fat fingers. ''Ι think there's almost a belIigerence-people are frustrated with their manufactured environment," says Ive. "We tend to assume the problem is with us and not with the products we're trying to use." In other words, when our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.

-Wιth reportίng by Barbara Maddux

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[Γιώργος]

Η παρακάτω εικόνα είναι από το "Κ" της εφημερίδας "Καθημερινή", της 28/01/2007

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Αν βρω χρόνο, θα ανεβάσω και το άρθρο.

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[iJohnnyCash]

Μερικά αρνητικά του iphone

• Η φορητή έκδοση του MacOS X καταλαμβάνει 700 ΜΒ από την χωρητικότητα της συσκευής. Γι'αυτό φαίνεται έβαλαν σκληρό δίσκο.
• Δεν υπάρχει τρόπος για copy/paste κειμένου...
• Δεν υποστηρίζεται A2DP. Ξέρετε, αυτό που χρειάζεται για την σύνδεση με στερεοφωνικά bluetooth ακουστικά.
• Δεν μπορούμε να ορίσουμε κάποιο MP3 σαν ringtone.
• Τα PDF, DOC και XLS formats υποστηρίζονται μόνο για ανάγνωση και όχι για αλλαγή/δημιουργία. PPT δεν βλέπουμε.
• Δεν υποστηρίζεται Adobe Flash. (Αυτό δεν μπορώ να καταλάβω πως μπορεί να γίνεται αφού ένα μεγάλο μέρος των sites στηρίζεται 100% σε flash). Ούτε embedded video.
• H camera δεν γράφει video. Δηλαδή ούτε τα υποτυπώδη κλιπάκια που γράφουν τα υπόλοιπα κινητά. Ξέρετε, αυτά που πουλάμε στα κανάλια...
• Δεν έχει MMS. Και της Microsoft της πήρε κάποια χρόνια να καταλάβει την χρησιμότητα του SMS και του MMS!
• Δεν υπάρχει δυνατότητα φωνητικής κλήσης.
• H Apple λέει ότι κάθε 300-400 φορτίσεις θα πέφτει η απόδοση της μπαταρίας και θα το στέλνουμε σε αυτούς για αλλαγή με ένα "fee". Ωραία, λύθηκε και το πρόβλημα της fixed μπαταρίας.

Πηγή

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[Guest 990498]

• H Apple λέει ότι κάθε 300-400 φορτίσεις θα πέφτει η απόδοση της μπαταρίας και θα το στέλνουμε σε αυτούς για αλλαγή με ένα "fee". Ωραία, λύθηκε και το πρόβλημα της fixed μπαταρίας.

Αυτό θα είναι τραγικό με τα δεδομένα των ελληνικών service centers.

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[iJohnnyCash]

Δυστυχώς την τρέλα της apple να ενσωματώνει την μπαταρία στο κινητό την πληρώνουμε εμείς

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[Guest 990498]

Δυστυχώς την τρέλα της apple να ενσωματώνει την μπαταρία στο κινητό την πληρώνουμε εμείς

Eίναι ανοησία, άραγε η sim που μπαίνει;

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[iJohnnyCash]

Λογικά αν μπορεί να βγει το πίσω καπάκι τότε εκεί αλλιώς στα πλαϊνά

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[Guest 990498]

Λογικά αν μπορεί να βγει το πίσω καπάκι τότε εκεί αλλιώς στα πλαϊνά

Φαντάζομαι πως μόλις βγάλεις τη sim η συσκευή θα κάνει επανεκκίνηση για να ζητήσει κωδικους (Pin και ασφάλειας), διότι αλλιώς θα είναι εύκολο να κλαπεί και να ξεκλειδωθεί.

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[The Djinn]

Το πισω καπακι δεν νομιζω να βγαινει...
Μου φαινεται αδυνατο η apple (ακομα και αυτη) να εχει ενσωματωσει την μπαταρια με την πλακετα.Γιατι εαν το εχει κανει αυτο, ουσιαστικα σε προβλημα της μπαταριας θα πρεπει να λυσουν την πλακετα να την βγαλουν...
Λες να εχουν κανει κατι τετοιο...?
Εγω νομιζα πως απλως θα ειχαν κανει κατι σαν αυτο που εκανε η Treo κι επρεπε να ξεβιδωθει το πισω καπακι, να βγαλεις κι απο μεσα μι-δυο βιδες (αν θυμαμαι καλα) και να αφαιρεσεις την μπαταρια...
Εκτος κι αν εχουν κανει ετσι κι εδω, αλλα το πισω καπακι να βγαινει για μπορεις να βαλεις την sim...Eλεος ομως!
Να βγαζεις ολοκληρο καπακι (χανει στιβαροτητα το κινητο) για να μπει μονο μια sim?

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[Guest 990498]

Να βγαζεις ολοκληρο καπακι (χανει στιβαροτητα το κινητο) για να μπει μονο μια sim?

Αυτό λέω και εγώ.

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[The Djinn]

Tελικα να πως αλλαζει η καρτα sim του iphone....
Το πισω καπακι δηλαδη δεν παιζει κανενα ρολο.
Η καρτα sim τελικα ειναι removable αλλα ειναι καλα "κρυμενη" και δεν βγαινει τοσο..."απλα"...
Αυτο λογικα γιατι το iphone και τωρα στην Αμερικη αλλα και οταν ερθει Ευρωπη θα πωλειται απο "παροχο" τηλεπικοινωνιων κι ετσι μπορει στην παραγγελια σας να σας εχουν ετοιμη την καρτα με το νουμερο μεσα.(λεμε τωρα.)Στην αρχη ειχε ακουστει οτι επειδη θα τρεχει μονο το ΑΤ&Τ network δεν χρειαζοταν card slot.Ειχες την καρτα απο τοτε που το αγοραζες μεσα και τελος...
Τεσπα, αυτο δεν μας ενδιαφερει τωρα.
Για να βγαλουμε την καρτα sim χρειαζομστε ομως ή εναν συνδετηρα ή μια οδοντογλυφιδα...κατι τετοιο.
Παραθετω εικονες:

Η sim card slot ειναι τοποτθετημενη στο πανω μερος της συσκευης.
Για καλυτερο προσανατολισμο σας, εκει που η ΝΟΚΙΑ βαζει συνηθως το power on/off κουμπι.

Για να την αφαιρεσουμε χρειαζομαστε εναν συνδετηρα λη μια οδοντογλυφιδα για παραδειγμα.
Βαζουμε την ακρη του συνδετηρα στο μικρο στρογγυλο βαθουλοματακι και το πιεζουμε.

Bγαινει ολοκληρο το "συρταρακι" που δεχεται την καρτα.Την αλλαζουμε και το ξαναβαζουμε μεσα.

Προς το παρων ομως η παραπανω κινησεις δεν εχουν καμια σημασια μιας και η συσκευη λειτουργει μονο με το δικτυο της AT&T.(δεν εχει..."παρακαμφθει" κατι τετοιο.)

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[Guest 990498]

Αν η κάρτα είναι μονίμως μέσα και δε μπορείς να τη βγάλεις, είναι μεγάλη βλακεία από μέρους της apple.

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[iJohnnyCash]

Μια χαρά βγαίνει η κάρτα, απλώς δεν έχει νόημα να την βγάλεις επειδή η συσκευή είναι κλειδωμένη στα περισσότερα δίκτυα

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[Guest 990498]

Εκεί που μπαίνει ο συνδετήρας, είναι ουσιαστικά κουμπί που απελευθερώνει το πορτάκι;

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[iJohnnyCash]

Ακριβώς

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[Guest 990498]

Δεν μου αρέσει σαν ιδέα.
Αν κάποιος το κλέψει και βγάλει τη κάρτα το σύστημα κάνει επανεκκίνηση;

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[Mitsos The Great]

Πόσο κοστίζει αυτό?

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[Guest 990498]

Πόσο κοστίζει αυτό?

Περί τα 1000 χωρίς συμβόλαιο, τουλάχιστον με τα τωρινά δεδομένα, αν κάνω λάθος διορθώστε με.
Αν μη τι άλλο, είναι πανάκριβο.

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[Mitsos The Great]

Όντως πολύ ακριβό...
Μου θυμίζει το PS3 στην αρχική του τιμή

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