UPDATE: I’ve updated this post with a couple of new images of the Apple iPhone and a sweet video demo (enjoy!):
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgW7or1TuFk&eurl=[/video]
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze559mhbrD0&eurl=[/video]
Who ever coined the phrase “the devil is in the details†must of have been a genius. When I got the tip in for the image of the Mobile Me phone below, I immediately resized and crop the image without even bothering to look at the “whole†picture. Keep in mind that I got two tips in right around the same time; one was the video and this one. All this took place about 2 hours prior to announcement of the iPhone by Linksys. Looking over the image now, I missed a few key details. Do you notice the blurb on the bottom left?
This image looks like it’s something an ad agency is putting together for Apple. So in my mind I’m thinking that Apple gave a bunch of info and images to the ad agency to play with…why else is this blurb in there?
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What bothers me is the name “iPhoneâ€. Is it possible that the name iPhone is still very much a live? Hmm…I’m not giving up hope yet. If there’s 1 in a billion chance that it’s still alive, I’ll hold on to it with dear life!
As far as the phrases:
Many abilities.
No buttons.
Introducing iPhone.
This is definitely something I’d expect to see from Apple.
18 responses to “Is the name Apple “iPhone” still alive?”
but now give me a touchscreen please. a real smartphone, not just ichat, but email functionality, voip/ skype, lite os-x version and thus the screen big enough for functional use.
again, concept is interesting, because it’s different. but the design doesn’t impress me.
Would be pretty slick and the kind of thing I’d expect from Apple.
do you really think apple would release a phone (iphone) that
only plays music/dials/sends text?
no camera?
no mini osx to compete with window ce?
dont you think that would be some of their strong points in an poster like this?
i know i know its possible its just a mock up and not all the features
would be listed…but i dont think this is even a real mock up….very nice
but it misses the major points i think apple is wanting to jump into.
For:
The patent link is certainly a strong plus, and it does feel “Appley” (Note the consistency of the buttons for “Menu” and “Options”, also the fact that where signal strength is displayed when it matters (when sending a sms/making a call but not when in the music interface)
Against:
However, even the ipod (a shining example of simplicity of interface) has dedicated buttons for play, skip etc. and given this is it likely that the answer/hang up buttons would be disposed of? (NB Apple don’t design products around advertising slogans!) Allowing for this, it would be a reasonable assumption that there would be some kind of default action assigned to simply tapping this control surface (I feel there should be, and one thing that you always can rely on Apple for doing is making things do what you’d expect) – taking that assumption – shouldn’t pause be the default highlighted action rather than back?
Wild assumption, but I’d guess that the track playing on the iPhone would have been bought from the iTunes store, in which case it should be track 10 of 11 and 3:49 long not 9 of 10 and 3:50 (according to iTunes UK).
Finally, “Many Abilities” – you’ve shown us music, voice calls and sms – more exciting ones could have surely been picked!
So, whilst a very good one, I come down on the side of fake…
The lack of photo reflections (or even drop shadows) is also curious. Most of the Apple ads I have seen (TV, print) have featured reflections. No, it’s not a big deal, but it’s something to think about.
Are you nuts?
Even the most amateur of organizations wouldn’t use such inarticulate language in their ads.
The off-key copy gives it away.
OK ok… the pad is very cool..and very good to use the menu of the phone…. BUT… don’t you think that it would quite impossibile to write a message?????
Even in a small organisation loads of protos come and go, so at Apple it must be hundreds per product. Mock ups of ads are just the same – Some stuff is just a placeholder to give an impression of something which does not exist yet (interface, for example), not always necessarily indicative of the final version.
Frankly, to take the trouble to go to the Music Store and use track numbers as a basis of what is and isn’t fake just indicates a lack of something better to do….
Real or not, this looks quite nice – Not sure about the gesturing (buttons would be simpler for me) but the whole thing is very Apple like. Whatever happens you can be pretty sure that after all this time Jobs is not going to let it out the door until it’s a real killer product and in Ives he has the perfect guy for the job.
and its how someone dissected a video ipod fake a few months back…
But I agree with what you said, IF (and it is still an if) Apple do release a phone, Ive will design something that is gorgeous and intuitive – losing the buttons on a phone (short of it being a touchscreen) will just scare people off (NB we live in a world where phone companies have designed phones that just do the basics because people are scared of the complexity of mobiles!)
More to the point, Apple would not use the name iPhone when Cisco is using the name. That alone ensures this is a fake.
Finally, a touchpad instead of a click wheel? That really sounds implausible to me. They would take one of their biggest marketing advantages and throw it out the window?
Incidentally, I bought a basic Nokia phone recently and it’s remarkable how much the user interface has degenerated from previous basic phones. For example, it’s not immediately obvious how to call someone back from the missed calls list. I remember the original Nokia being a brilliant and intuitive device, but that seems to be long gone with the new unit.
Finally, to the person who mentioned the on-screen keyboard being in alphabetical order – that seems likely since I believe the iPod works exactly that way. And I think the signal strength indicator is universally interesting since even when you’re listening to music you would want to know if your phone is in range for a call. Another mistake I doubt Apple would make.
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I love the idea of an Apple iPhone, especially a Mac OS X – based smart phone, but could it be that this is just something to divert our attention away from the accounting / stock earnings mess that Apple has been involved in here lately?
We all know how much room there is for improvement for mobile phones, and Apple can do it better. I can only hope that Apple has a team of programmers working towards a Windows CE type of Mac OS for portable devices. That would be great. We have been sorely lacking in this technology.
Time will only tell.
yes, it lives!
the iPhone!