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Apple iTalk and iPhone Roundup

by Jayvee on December 7th, 2006

Several months ago, Peter Green showed us a video of his iTalk phone concept. The video and design is very Apple-ish and it even makes ME wish that this was what the iPhone would look like. In a few months time, Steve Jobs will hopefully reveal the iPhone and if it looks anything like the iTalk design, the mobile handset will be a sure winner in terms of design. So let’s assume Peter Green’s design IS the actual iPhone …

Of course we wonder how practical a virtual keypad will actually serve the phone market - Windows Mobile has tried it and look at them now going back to the keypad roots with the ASUS P525 and Stealth models.

Music player, bright touch screen LCD, click wheel, megapixel class camera (we assume) — doesn’t this take up a lot of battery? Assuming the battery is housed underneath the LCD screen that can also double as a video player, we’re sure of getting around one day’s worth of battery on this thing. And yeah, it would be a moldable Lithium Polymer battery too because have you seen how thin that was? They’d have to mold that battery into the size of a credit card.

Kevin Rose on the other hand has leaked some information about the iPhone from a very credible source:

  • It will come in two models, a 4GB flash and 8GB flash for $249 and $449 respectively
  • It will have a slide out keyboard and touch screen UI
  • It will have one charger but two sets of batteries - one for music and one for the phone (hmmm so you can listen to music the whole day without having to worry about your phone draining)
  • It will be small and have a “miniaturized” version of OS X
  • It will support CDMA, GSM and TDMA
  • It is coming in January

    • So, to iPhone or not to iPhone … that is indeed the question in the first quarter of next year. What do I think? Don’t get it - because Apple has been on a bad streak with first generation devices lately.

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    3 opinions for Apple iTalk and iPhone Roundup

    • Filipina Soul » The much-coveted Apple iPhone
      Jan 10, 2007 at 2:29 pm

      […] Cellfone9’s self-proclaimed Supreme Arch-Monarch Jayvee Fernandez has the lowdown on this baby at “Apple iPhone at MwSF 2007 and first impressions“. But then he says something that made me raise an eyebrow at this “iPhone roundup” so I don’t know. What do you think, ‘Mr. Bean’, should I get one? When is this available in the Philippines? […]

    • tee
      Mar 11, 2007 at 4:39 am

      wen would the italk phone be available to purchase in australia???

    • iphone
      Mar 12, 2007 at 3:50 pm

      tee, I dont think their is an official date for international orders for iphones. Is cingular available in Australia?

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