What we don’t know about Apple’s iPhone?

January 10th, 2007 · No Comments

After the euphoria surrounding Apple’s announcement of the iPhone, questions remain about the phone and the service bundle through Cingular. Business 2.0 asks a few pertinent questions:

But what do we still not know about the iPhone? Even though Jobs spent the good part of two hours going over it’s every feature in loving detail, a few questions still remain.

1. Will you be able to buy and download songs and movies over the air, or do you need to download them to your computer first and then sync them to your iPhone like with any iPod? If you will be able to, will songs cost the same or will Cingular insist that people pay for the convenience of wireless delivery over its network? (After all, a ringtone can easily cost $3).

2. The iPhone has WiFi and Bluetooth, but will it be possible to beam songs between iPhones like you can with the Zune?

3. Will the device drain power from one single battery or two? (Earlier rumors had suggested there would be a separate battery for the phone and one for the iPod, but Jobs didn’t say anything about that, only that there would be 5 hours of talk time/video ipod use, and 16 hours of music-listening capability).

4. What about an iPhone with a hard drive to carry all your music? (What Jobs really announced was an iPhone Nano, which will come with either 4 GB or 8 GB of flash memory. How many movies will that hold?)

5. Exactly how long will Cingular have exclusivity in the U.S.? (All we know is that it is a “multiyear” deal). And what happens when spotty network coverage mars the experience?

6. How long will the touch-screen last? (Even in Jobs’ keynote, you could see the smudges on the screen).

Source: The Next Net: Business 2.0