UPDATE: I apologise for saying "baby" up there in the original post. I don't normally talk that way. But that's iPhone fever for you, baby!
UPDATE 2: Avast! Thar she blows!
iPhone 3G! A phone so cool it skipped an entire generation and went straight to 3! And it's coming to Australia! All my childhood dreams of the future have been fulfilled. Well, not all fulfilled; I'm still waiting on personal jetpacks. And flying cars. And teleporting. But it's a big step forward nonetheless. What an incredible device.
If you haven't watched the Stevenote, it's worth checking out; if only to see what the many developers have done with the Software Developers Kit. The music app at 40:11, the Google Maps-style medical app at 45:35 and the game demo at 52:13 are pretty amazing. Especially that game demo. As the guy says, it's hard to believe it's running on a mobile device. And the use of the built-in accelerometer for character control is very cool. The device/browser comparison at 1:29:20 is also pretty convincing.
And watching all this, it surprises me that Apple pushed so hard for the iPhone brand name, as phone calls are pretty much the least of what the iPhone does. It's like calling the iMac the DoorStop. Sure, it can do that — and do it well, you know — but my, it can do so much more. It's a fully featured, micro-sized personal computer! I guess iPhone rolls off the tongue easily, and sits comfortably within Apple's "i" stable, but it does seem like an unnecessarily timid name, especially when you consider the boldness of 'iPod'. MacNano seems like it'd be more appropriate, though equally unimaginative. I guess that's why Apple have been throwing around the quote "The phone that has changed phones forever".
Well, whatever its name might be, I reckon you could call it Apple HotCakes because this baby is going to move.
UPDATE 3: Oh no! I did it again.
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