You may or may not know about these six new facts we learned about the iPhone last week. Thanks to the leaked “iPhone Sales Training Workbook” for AT&T Wireless employees leaked last week as well as Apple CEO Steve Jobs WWDC keynote, you can take the following to the bank:
- The iPhone will have support for IMAP, POP3, and Yahoo Push mail. It will also automatically recognize and detect phone numbers in email messages, and gives the option for a one-click access to dialing them. The iPhone does not support Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), so you will not be able to attach pictures or videos to text messages. It will not let you “chat” with friends directly via instant messaging (IM).
- Videos will pause automatically when a call comes in, and then resumes when the call ends.
- The iPhone does not have Global Positioning System (GPS).
- There is no such thing as an iPhone SDK. Third-party applications will be allowed only as web-based applications loaded the Internet via the iPhone’s Safari web browser.
- You must either setup or have an existing iTunes account in order to use the iPhone, even if you do not intend to make purchases. This is an additional requirement on top of the 2-year service agreement with AT&T.
- Synchronization is automatic when the iPhone is plugged into a Mac or PC for email, contacts, calendar, and photos.
Please add to the conversation in the comment section with other facts you know about the iPhone that wasn’t listed here.
Six new facts about the iPhone [via computerworld]
How can the iphone not support mms, this is a big downfall for me :(
[quote comment="3770"]How can the iphone not support mms, this is a big downfall for me :([/quote]
perhaps it’s a limitation of OSX? It’s just really odd that iPhone doesn’t support MMS!
No MMS really sux. It’s all we use in Europe… business and personal. Damn!
what are the limits for pop3…can i have it through an exchange server??
is yahoo the only push email compatible with the iphone?
[quote comment="3774"]what are the limits for pop3…can i have it through an exchange server??
is yahoo the only push email compatible with the iphone?[/quote]
If you’re on exchange server, there should be an option for your admin to flip on allowing pop or imap access to your email account. Only problem is you won’t get direct push email. The other option (if you’re on linux) is to use email that came with linux – it supports push now.
As far as we know, Yahoo is the only web-based email service with push.
you know for certain that the iphone will not support exchange as push email?
(contacts, calendar, wireless sync)
[quote comment="3776"]you know for certain that the iphone will not support exchange as push email?
(contacts, calendar, wireless sync)[/quote]
If the iPhone supports Exchange – that’s new to all of us. As far as we know, Exchange is not supported, hence no push email on iPhone via Exchange.
This sux :( no MMS? NO GPS? And they call iphone revolutionary phone… yea right :[
[quote comment="3783"]This sux :( no MMS? NO GPS? And they call iphone revolutionary phone… yea right :[[/quote]
MMS and GPS are hardly innovative technologies my friend. Look past it and you’ll see the true beauty of the iPhone. Apple can always do a software update in the future to support MMS while you can add an external GPS to the iPhone. Try giving the really expensive Nokia N95 or other phones a larger screen with glass surface or even gestures…it’s impossible. Flip your current phones from portrait to landscape, does it automatically rotate? I didn’t think so. You beginning to get the picture here?
I wonder if the lack of MMS is due to the possible bandwidth issues? I mean, this phone will sync with hundreds, if not thousands, of your pictures within iPhoto. I don’t know about you, but just about every picture that gets sucked into my iPhoto weighs at least a MB. Usually more. Think of all the MBs of data that could be sent over an iPhone resulting from your large storage of photos that normal cell phones just don’t have hanging out on them. Just a thought…
[quote comment="3785"]I wonder if the lack of MMS is due to the possible bandwidth issues? I mean, this phone will sync with hundreds, if not thousands, of your pictures within iPhoto. I don’t know about you, but just about every picture that gets sucked into my iPhoto weighs at least a MB. Usually more. Think of all the MBs of data that could be sent over an iPhone resulting from your large storage of photos that normal cell phones just don’t have hanging out on them. Just a thought…[/quote]
Not really because like most phones with MMS support, the size of the image is controlled by the carrier or software locked to be much smaller. That should be a relatively easy thing to fix. I’m pretty sure it is OS related.
Why would anybody still want MMS? Get real. If you want MMS you’re too much of a tasteless newb to need an iPhone. But, does it support jabber? (Of course it must, via the built-in iChat, or at least via AJAX.)
Cool!
Hi, i just wanted to know if it was possible to download contacts from a sim card if you did not have them loaded in outlook? Thanks
in a recent “iPhone Sales Training (Australia)” that you CANNOT send data from one iphone to another via bluetooth.