Apple reinvents the phone. Imagine Apple’s typically easy to use computer software interface, like a touchscreen keypad when you need to dial. When you want to watch a video, it’s got a screen bigger then the Video iPod. Suddenly, the phone interface isn’t fixed and rigid, it’s fluid and molten. Software replaces hardware.The traditional phone is obsolete for all the things it’s become. This integrated device is driven by a mini-computer with a web browser that displays regular websites instead of the stripped down versions of all phones and mobile devices today. It also happens to be a phone, a camera, and a video iPod as well. (more…)

iphone_large, originally uploaded by iphonegroove.

Even though this is just a mock-up picture of the coming up iPhone it sure gives you the idea!

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

I’m a great fan of Jajah since October 2006, and I missed their blog… They announced a while ago that they support the iPhone with their voice over IP functionnality on mobile phone. It’s really not a surprise… Why, because their technology is faily simple, it’s not a voice over IP when you need an internet connection, it’s a voice over IP using your existing phone. So when you use Jajah, your phone is ringing, and then you are connected with your correspondent. So it would be very easy to put it on the iPhone, with a web page you could enable Jajah, with a java application you could enable jajah, with an SMS (I think it could work) you could enable Jajah.

Finally, Jajah has announced a Widget for the Apple world, so I think that we will find this applet on the iPhone as well…

If there is one thing I cannot tolerate it’s a technology company playing with my emotions by promising one thing and delivering another. During the keynote, Steve Jobs clearly indicated the iPhone will not have 3G support built-in, meaning it will not poses UMTS or HSDPA technology. And yet John Markoff of the New York Times is claiming that Apple will provide a firmware upgrade that will unlock this hidden functionality.

*Hint to Mr. Markoff* 3G is a hardware feature, not software. Meaning that it’s going to take a hell of a lot more than a firmware upgrade to add 3G capability to iPhone if the underlying hardware that enables it is missing. *Smacks John on forehead*

As “iPhone euphoria” slowly wears off, replaced with sobering reality, some of iPhone’s less shiny aspects are beginning to come into view. Wilmington North Corolina’s StarNews (I didn’t know they had newspapers in NC. Wonder if they have internets as well ) pointed out the unfairness of Apple’s FairPlay digital rights management (DRM) technology which locks users into Apple’s walled garden by limiting playback of songs purchased through the iTunes Store only on Apple authorized hardware. Since Apple doesn’t license FairPlay to any other vendor, that means you can only listen to these legally purchased tracks on an iPod, or iPhone in this case.Needless to say a good many users, and competitors to Apple, are not happy with this arrangement. Some are seeking legal recourse, accusing Apple of being a monopoly.

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