by Frank McPherson, author of How To Do Everything With Windows Mobile

 
So, Apple has officially launched the iPhone, though I got to wonder what Cisco/Linksys thinks of the name. Rumor has it that this is Microsoft's response. I couldn't resist.

It will be interesting to see how well this phone actually sells once the geek hype is over. Non-techies tend to like hard buttons for dialing numbers rather than using a touch screen, particularly for one-hand operation.

The price is also high, so that puts it in the high-end market. In that market are Treos and Blackberries, which most people buy for writing and sending email and text messages. I am curious to see whether the market will find it easier to perform text entry using the iPhone's on-screen keyboard.

As a former Newton user, I am a bit disappointed they didn't include handwriting recognition. The HWR in Newton is something Apple still owns, and I got to think it would work sell in OS X.

Labels: 2007

posted by Frank at 6:35 PM 

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