“The iPhone is everything I have been waiting for in a portable device (email, chat, internet, photos, music, camera); however, the thing I am least excited about is the cell phone feature,” Adam blogs via .Mac.
Adam writes, “Here is what troubles me. I find myself using a traditional phone less and less. All I really need is an internet connection, and I can communicate just fine with the entire world. I basically use Skype for calls, iChat for IMs, email for everything else. Who really needs a separate ‘phone line’ any more…just get me on the internet.”
“I would be happy having an iPhone without any cellular service. I do not want to pay $100/month (who knows how much it will really cost) to use this great new device,” Adam writes.
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Okay, who else wants an “iPhone sans phone” and doesn’t want to wait until fall or whenever Apple decides to release it as the new iPod?
Me!
Me.
that’s actually not a bad point. Give me the internet and access and I’ll skype/IM/email whoever I want. c’mon Clearwire…take over.
I do
“I basically use Skype for calls, iChat for IMs, email for everything else.”
Of course, consider that (a) there’s no Skype for iPhone (no third-party support) and (b) no iChat for iPhone (remember that the demo used SMS-messaging). So you’d be stuck with e-mail.
That said, I do like the concept for the next iPod. Leave out the phone and just have music/movie player and Internet connectivity.
I want iPhone w/o the pod!
You may get hosed on the internet usage charges by Cingular. A monthly cell phone bill may be cheaper.
Yes but iChat will arrive for it, maybe even on launch and Skype is a matter of Apple enabling it. SJ said that they had not decided upon that as yet.
Me.
Use communication via internet more than any phones we have.
I want one.
I was thinking this the day after they announced – give me the iPhone with everything except the phone part.
1. Don’t need a cell phone
2. Don’t want to deal with Cingular/AT&T/Lucifer again
I will take two!
Just let me use VOIP.
Some peace and quiet when out of range is a benefit too!
This guy should get a life. Or does he never leave his desk? Try using Skype in a park or a taxi or at a client site, or on vacation, or at your Mum’s place, or in your garden or…
And I don’t know about you, but the voice quality on ANY of the IP telephony services that I have used (including Skype and Jajah) is so poor that i usually can’t wait to terminate the call. It reminds me of long distance calls before fibre optics. I spend half my call saying “sorry what was that?”. I prefer to pay for my calls…
I am using a Motorolla Razr, which has a user interface designed by a drunk chimpanzee. To say I hate it is an understatement. It never ceases to annoy. And on more than one occasion I have wanted to hurl it into the traffic.
Apple could make a killing with the same unit less the phone. Take out the phone and the price should drop. That way you have a choice iPhone or iPod. Many cell phone users have a contract that may lock them in for sometime before they can get the iPhone. But that will not stop them from getting the new iPod.
I’m with botox, I’d love to have the iphone without the ipod functions. If they created a model with everything but ipod functionality and reduced the price of it, I’m sure there would be a market for it.
Me I want a widescreen iDevice.
8 gigs in the phone please…. I have a 60 gig and that is not big enough.
I don’t know what I would do if I only had 8 gigs.
Steve hear my prayer and give be 100 gig widescreen, email, chat, picture and video capture iDevice………please
ME!!!
I thought I was the only one thinking this way. I see the iPhone as a way to finally not have to carry my PowerBook around with me. The feature I like the most is the portable web browser. The phone and iPod parts of it are ok if that is the only way it comes. But I would be perfectly happy with a $299 ultra Mac portable.
The possibilities for future configurations of the iPhone are nearly endless. The point is that the iPhone is a PLATFORM, capable of going where technology allows.
The same cannot be said of devices powered by WinCE, Palm or Symbian. They are mired in, and limited by, technology that is 20 years old. Linux has a better chance of keeping up with OSX (mobile) than these three do.
I think the future of cellular carriers, telecoms and cable providers is as internet access portals. All other value added features of these current business models, will transition to access devices and the internet.
With so much competition for internet users, the price of access (high speed) is going to drop like a rock.
in my opinion steve jobs did not show the intire iphone capabilities in public,guess we have to wait as we wait for the itv,i mean apple tv.
WE DO
Rob Enderle wants one
And even though he won’t admit it, I know Zune Tang wants one too!
If anything I am using a traditional phone more. Having to limit myself to a conversation via email, chat or somewhere where I had to be connected to the internet (to use skype) would properly suck. Trying to explain stuff over email or IM is just plain frustrating – the phone is much better.
What would be the point of having an iPhone without the phone, and without any of the services that you have to pay a subscription fee to use?
All you would have is an iPod, a camera (which wouldnt be as good as your average digicam) and a few apps, which would have such limited use because of the lack of internet.
I’ll have the iPhone, with everything included, thank you very much.
That is EXACTLY what I want. The iPhone will do me absolutely no good as long as it’s locked into Cingular since their great network doesn’t service my area. If it has WiFi and Apple certifies a VOIP client for it I’m good to go.
mobile video ichat = cool
Well, I think it would be great, but I just bought a new MacBook on Sunday, so I won’t have any cash available for an iPod for a few months.
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