I haven’t heard a peep out of Microsoft for quite some time; not really since Mossberg’s D5. Nonetheless, Microsoft is in the news today.
June 2007: Monthly Archive
New York Post (that’s POST, not TIMES) columnist Glenn Fleishman doesn’t like the iPhone. In fact he hates it. And he hates you for even thinking of buying one. His column isn’t what I would categorize as a product review. In fact it sounds more like he has some grudge against Apple. The guy only spent a brief moment looking at the device and from that he writes a review? The New York Post must have low review standards.
The iPhone crams so many different features into its slightly bulky form that it can only excel at one, and compromise on the rest. After spending some time, albeit briefly, with the iPhone, it’s clear to me that Internet and e-mail are the parts that suffered.
Perhaps he didn’t get a free iPhone? Seriously, Glenn…why the hate?
ReadThanks to Pete for the tip
This shouldn’t come as a surprise given that Nokia’s Symbian web browser is actually based on Safari’s core framework, known as WebKit. If anything this may benefit iPhone users by extending developer support to a much wider audience, beyond just iPhone’s Safari environment. I say good on them.
They’ve begun. Gizmodo has a picture of it; FSJ talks of paying people to wait in line. Here’s a video interview with the first two, and there’s another guy waiting in line for an African charity in the SOHO branch.
of their smartphone customers. They don’t post figures for overall customers, which would be interesting — there’s been some talk of halo effect for all smartphones, it would be great to be able to do some preliminary marketshare math here.
Apple has apparently increased their order for touch screens.
Bit by bit, information is coming out on how the syncing will work, and what it means to have to activate the iPhone before you can use it.
First, AT&T’s return policy has changed: you now only have 14 days to try it out (it used to be 30 days). There’s now also a 10% restocking fee for a return. Don’t worry, though; the contract breakage fee ($175) is still the same if you miss that 2 week deadline. We knew the phone was going to be locked, though it’s a surprise that it may be locked to one SIM card.
Second, you’ll have to activate an AT&T plan before you can even use the iPod functionality of it. Crazy! Without a worth-$3000 2 year plan, that purchase is just a $499 or $599 pretty little brick. Hopefully it will reduce the reasons to steal them. It’s going to be a hot little thing in my pocket, that’s for sure.
God and Satan join forces to bring Microsoft Exchange Hell spawn DirectPush support to iPhone, offering all the benefits of Windows Mobile (and then some) to Jesus phone users. This according to Mary Jo Foley at Zdnet.
Here’s what I’m hearing: Apple will announce this week — possibly as soon as June 27 — that it has licensed the Exchange ActiveSync licensing protocol. Via the licensing arrangement, Apple iPhone users will be able to connect to Exchange Server and make use of its wireless messaging and synchronization capabilities.
This will no doubt elicit a loud HUZZAH! from those of you that use a hosted Exchange service, like myself. Though personally I’m thinking of dumping the Microsoft ecosystem and using a mashup of various solutions like Google apps + .Mac.
It’s funny; the Phone isn’t out but David Pogue, New York Times tech reviewer extraordinaire, is already working on a book for it. I’m kind of thinking that it’ll be a thin book; I don’t think the iPhone is going to be too complicated.
This trip down memory lane is a tear-jerker — chock full of iPhone clones and would-have-been iPhones.
