First: YouTube on board. We’ll continue to do our listing videos in NTSC video. Anything less stinks in a broadband world. But we’ll do YouTube versions, too, for all the mobile phone vendors who will leap on this bandwagon.
Second: The natives are restless:
June 29 is the day many gear-heads have marked on their calendars as iDay, the release of what independent analyst Richard Doherty calls “the most eagerly awaited consumer technology device of the last 20 years.”
Since January, when it was first announced, the iPhone has captivated consumers, Wall Street investors and the media as the right product at the right time.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has positioned it as the most advanced meeting of the Internet and wireless technology, with an iPod thrown in for good measure. And it looks really cool, and unlike any phone before it.
For Apple, the release of the iPhone promises to effectively double the company’s revenue within just a few years, based on the worldwide thirst for cellphones. For consumers, the trick is going to be nabbing one of the early iPhones on opening day before stock sells out.
The iPhone is being sold only at Apple’s 200 retail stores, Apple’s website and nearly 1,800 AT&T (formerly Cingular) stores beginning at 6 p.m. local time across the country. AT&T says it will close its stores at 4:30 p.m. and reopen at 6 p.m. Apple would not comment on its plans. No pre-orders are being accepted. Fans are expected to camp out in front of stores for days.
Jobs has projected sales of 10 million iPhones within the first 18 months — worth more than $5 billion retail. Neither AT&T nor Apple will say how many phones initially will be shipped to stores. Doherty expects 1 million units to be available in the first wave. He predicts stores will be sold out by the time they close on June 29.
Third: What else you can do if you intend, like us, to sit on the sidelines for a while.
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Will Farnsworth says:
And again we see how discussion of the hype-phone is not limited to Digg and Apple fanboy blogs.
Cool phone? Yes. Innovative design? Yes.
Will Apple sell a bagillion of them? Probably, especially 2nd/3rd gen.
It can do what other smart phones have been doing for years, so is it revolutionary?
Nope.
June 20, 2007 — 2:21 pm
Chris says:
When my contract is up next spring I plan on trading my Razr in for one. I’m not in a rush, and am not camping outside a store and paying a fortune for a phone.
I just hope the battery lasts longer then the Razr’s.
I’d live with out all the features if they could just make a phone that works everywhere.
June 20, 2007 — 4:15 pm