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One giant 25 minute iRection. This thing is SO pimp

Word docs in iPhone! Still no camera demo yet.

Downloading now. It's great how Apple's releasing these tidbits of info almost daily, whetting everyone's appetite. Too bad all I can afford is mac'n'cheeze in a box.

I want!

with great expectations comes great disappointment

No ringtones or ringbacks from the music library. Disappointing.

Big erections can emerge from little packages.

Yeah where's the camera demo!??!!

No user definable ringtones. No sale.

Why doesn't Apple release things like this in podcast for AppleTV

It seems anytime they release a video (commercials ect) they would make it available to watch thru AppleTV

Why doesn't apple do this for OSX or Mac Hardware.... I think it's great!

Neurolinguistics programation for the brain "Buy the iPhone, Microsoft is bad.. obey my dog..." well, not really, with great products like that, Microsoft is the one who need to re program thier brains..

This whole thing - device and its software - is one big beta test. They should pay me to work it all out for them. No thanks!

Amazing.

This week I've seen people refuse to buy Apple TV because it doesn't have visualizers and now people are refusing to buy iPhone because you can't install your own ringtones.

As I said then, it's like refusing to buy a fantastic car because it doesn't come with Hello Kitty stickers.

Ringtones???

I really hope you people are kidding here. If there's one thing that drives me batty, it's being subjected to all those obnoxious ringtones in public - pop songs, jingles, etc. When I hear a cell phone ring with anything but a halfway traditional ringer, I want to walk up to that asshole go medieval on the jerk-off or at the very least do a Balmer-office chair on his lame ass!

Ringtones are for pre-pubescent, mindless follow-what-dumbasses-say-is-cool turds!

There it is... He opened a MS Word Attachment with no problem... This is pretty big..

I couldn't help but notice that the iPhone had no problem opening Office documents. The FUD Masters will not be pleased.

@matt
I won a car in a church sale and refused it... didn't like the brand. Life is too short to waste time on compromises. Sure I could have sold it but... no time car sales is not my profession.

Suhweet. I'm so hoping that the monthly fees will be low enough to allow me to actually use this thing.

It would be so hobbled without a data plan unless, I suppose, you are constantly bathed in wi-fi.

All told it might be cheaper to buy a handful of Airport BS's and give them to the places I most frequent. Now that would be a trip. ("Hi Grocery Store manager, I'd like to ask you to install this for me, emm-kay? And make the password 'no data plan'. And don't turn it off, yeah? Cool beans. Now to the car wash.")

He opened a MS Word Attachment with no problem

I called it. To learn more secret features of the iPhone go back and watch the WWDC '07 keynote and think "iPhone" instead of desktop or laptop. It's got Leopard in it. Quickview shows MS docs. Therefore, no big surprise.

The video is very well done -- a great way to get a quick intro to the phone's operation and features. I feel like I should be able to jump right in next Friday.

And, oh year, for all the FUD mongers who keep trying to confine the iPhone's impact on the enterprise, bad news: It can open and manipulate Microsoft Office docs. Actually, the multitouch navigation and zoom are pretty cool. I could easily see using it, in a pinch (pun intended), to deal with a critical document while passing through an airport.

Text edit can display text from a MS word doc. I didn't see any inline graphics in the doc or anything...jury is still out

I guess this is what they call the full fat guide!:-)

@ grigori: LOL , same here.

MW: "designed" as in SJ saying design is more than how the thing looks and feels but how it works.

@ Dave

Text edit can display text from a MS word doc. I didn't see any inline graphics in the doc or anything...jury is still out

I don't know Dave. I've been one of iPhone's biggest skeptics as a business phone but I think this is pretty big. We haven't seen iPhone open an office doc until now. I have a real hard time believing that it won't display inline graphics.

They went to this much trouble, I seriously doubt they did a 1/2 assed job of it..

This is genius marketing!

MW minutes

Download complete!

@ Socrates' Lessor Known Brother: LOL

MW: "ball" as in "to accomplish this, you need two..."
(refer to Socrates' Lessor Known Brother's post)

Great demo! A brilliant marketing move. Now everyone will see how easy it is to use and feel comfortable with it. It also builds desire. At least it did in me. I now fully realize that my phone is the technological equivalent of a flint axe.

Apple has just squashed everything in the market. iPhone should be called thePhone because every other phone will be compared against it. I've got to believe that iPhone will be the gold standard for a long time.

Notice the Graph in the excel file!

Inline grafix you fools!

Has anyone noticed that Apple has never done a demo on the calendar feature yet? Jobs quickly brushed over a "month view" for 2 seconds in the first keynote, but since then, it has been conspicuously absent.

The calendar feature is a critical app on my treo (and I currently use Missing Sync to sync it to iCal). You'd think Apple would be showing off the calendar more.

Also conspicuously absent: Bluetooth Syncing...

I guess we'll find out in a few days....

@Shoeman - I hope it's true, I really do. I'm an iPhone fan boy and will get one regardless of Office support. Just wanted to point out that tidbit and and crossing my fingers that it's not creating a lot of false hope out there

No Hello Kitty stickers with iPhone? That is TOO disappointing. I'm staying home on the 29th!

The Graph was on a .pdf

They don't show the calendar app because it doesn't get you hard (or wet) like the other features do. A calendar is a calendar (especially if its iCal)

"You'd think Apple would be showing off the calendar more."

I think the missing component is CalDAV, which won't be out until Leopard. I think at that point the iPhone calendar will be able share collaborative calendars over the net.

"Has anyone noticed that Apple has never done a demo on the calendar feature yet?"

That's because the world as we know it ends on June 29th at 6 pm local time. That's when the iPhone calendar activates.

For Job's sake, folks. There's BiP and then there's AiP.

@ Dave
I won a car in a church sale and refused it... didn't like the brand. Life is too short to waste time on compromises. Sure I could have sold it but... no time car sales is not my profession.

Seriously? No one is going to comment on this statement?

Dave, I gotta say that I just can't imagine anyone missing out on all of the greatness that is iPhone because they can't have a Justin Timberlake ringtone. Of course, I don't understand the car thing, either.

Aye, the office document preview feature is very promising. If Leopard's calendar server can be wirelessly synced over the internet, they'd have a truly exec-friendly device. And at $500+, that's really a segment they should be aiming for.

Still wouldn't alleviate the IT security concerns (no end-to-end encryption of mail and no remote blank), but since the strategy appears to be that they're unveiling a new feature every couple of days, there's still time!

AP,

My thoughts exactly. Also absent is any demonstration of someone entering a contact. Jobs has always hated PDA functionality and has promototed syncing with your computer as the solution (at least with the iPod). I know it seems silly that they wouldn't allow you to enter a contact or calendar event into the iPhone, but ...

No ringtones from the iTunes library. How lame is that. Must be the new AT&T;at work there.......

It displayed a word and excel file. That doesn't mean it opened it. Can you actually get in there and change text, data, etc. or is it just a viewing feature?

The keyboard looks good... along with its intelligence.... one thing that the FUDsters are making you believe is that a keyboard on a Blackberry on Treo is good... they are awful...... any keyboard on a small device is going to be bad... however if it corrects spelling (because you miss a key) then thats great..... I did notice on the preview that the keyboard also offers common words and stacks for each application... ie ".com" in Safari... thats a great idea....

One further point... I use a Blackberry... why would anyone want to change an Office doc on a smartphone ? I mean come on ? How many of you really edit docs on a smartphone ? You don't do it... however you do read docs but never edit... when I get docs on my Blackberry I can barley read them on the screen... when I review the doc I send back and in the body of my email I suggest the changes... I don't make the changes on the phone and send back a saved copy..... thats just stupid....

"No ringtones from the iTunes library."

Copyright or royalty issues? Just guesses.

You guys really thought you might be able to use your songs as ringtones? LMAO.

It's painfully obvious that the iTunes store will begin selling ringtones, opening up yet another new revenue stream for Apple.

You think the music industry is going to let Apple destroy the billions of dollars they ring in from those sales?

To all you MS trolls, Just go away, you look more pathetic each day. LOL

Saw the video . . . . and was blown away. Quick look in action,
map directions,
Traffic checking
on,on on and on,

Just like in Tremors III, " This is going to be big!!! Really Big!! "

enjoy the weekend.

MDN word ill, as in those MS trolls must be feeling really ill. Maybe they need to buy a MS mobile "smart" phone. LOL

Shall we call this place iPhoneDailyNews??? There was like 30 headlines on the iPhone!

That's the latest rumor on the new iMacs??

Apple will be selling ringtones on iTunes. Watch the Macworld '07 again. When they show the iTunes page, there's a tab at the top that says ringtones.

@me (hotinplaya)

Why doesn't Apple release things like this in podcast for AppleTV

I was wrong, I DL the video, dragged to my iTunes library, wala,

looks great on my AppleTV!!, I hope they start offering DL of all their video

whiteboytrash:

Agreed that editing docs on the mobile is not a feature most would.

Treo keyboard, on the other hand, IS quite good. If the intelligence is good (i.e., WAY better than that crappy Blackberry intelligence), the iPhone keyboard might suffice, but the tactile feedback is really how I type on the treo. Can type without looking at all.

In this day of declining album sales, the ringtone business has become more vital than ever to record labels.

Now Apple is about to instantly become one of the biggest players in the ringtone field. I mean can't you see it? It's iRight iThere in iFront of iYou.

This is by far one of the best product demos I have seen. The naysayers who did not think there was enough in the demo are blown smoke out of their proverbial okolies (Hawaiian term - I bet you can figure it out) - camera! Come on - I know you need to get cinema quality capture of the dog pi$$in' on your friends Zune so that you can instantly upload it to YouTube! (now that's an idea. !!!

I feel that this little ditty is (as has already been said) the begining of the approach to multiple vids - either by support vids or by AppleCasts...
doesn't matter. And this one was directed to the business market - trust me.

Good work !!!