AppZone: Apple's iPhone Spoken Quickly?
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Written by Christopher Price
Monday, 04 December 2006
PCS Intel has avoided the constant iPhone rumor mill (which has been running strong since about when PCS Intel was started... three years ago). However, new documents have leaked out, and confirmation from industry sources appears concerted on the same information.
Verizon's latest projected launch estimate has set for launch on Janurary 30 a product called "AppZone". It is odd and rare for a product to appear within 60 days before shipping with nothing known about it. AppZone, when spoken slowly, does resemble "Apple's Phone". This is also in-line with Digg founder Kevin Rose's statements earlier this week, indicating that iPhone will be available on all carr...
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Written by Christopher Price
Monday, 04 December 2006
PCS Intel has avoided the constant iPhone rumor mill (which has been running strong since about when PCS Intel was started... three years ago). However, new documents have leaked out, and confirmation from industry sources appears concerted on the same information.
Verizon's latest projected launch estimate has set for launch on Janurary 30 a product called "AppZone". It is odd and rare for a product to appear within 60 days before shipping with nothing known about it. AppZone, when spoken slowly, does resemble "Apple's Phone". This is also in-line with Digg founder Kevin Rose's statements earlier this week, indicating that iPhone will be available on all carr...
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thats crazy so will verizon have the opportunity to jack this phone over? who wants a stupid ipod phone anyways
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gunny said:
This is also in-line with Digg founder Kevin Rose's statements earlier this week, indicating that iPhone will be available on all carriers at-launch.
Gunny, this sounds alot like my "iPhone - Unlocked and Unbranded" post here a few weeks ago, doesn't it?
Like the V710 Class Action, it was laughed at.
Today I flew on USAir and counted 12 iPod docking stations in their SkyMall shopping magazine. Everything from massaging chairs, entertainment systems, towel racks, you name it. I am here today to tell you that Steve Jobs is a genious and if he thinks he can sell 10,000,000 of these in the first year watch it happen. There are now 100,000,000 people who carry BOTH the iPod and a cell phone. ...
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wnrussell said:gunny said:
Gunny, this sounds alot like my "iPhone - Unlocked and Unbranded" post here a few weeks ago, doesn't it?
Yes did you look at the document?
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gunny said:wnrussell said:gunny said:
Gunny, this sounds alot like my "iPhone - Unlocked and Unbranded" post here a few weeks ago, doesn't it?
Yes did you look at the document?
No, I was on an airplane. Do you have the link?
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I would buy this phone in a second! Especially if it would intergrate with my mac.
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cwcanty said:
I would buy this phone in a second! Especially if it would intergrate with my mac.
me too sure it would have to work with mac 🙂
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I think this phone would do great! There are millions of mac users out there who would love a phone that would easily integrate with their computers. move over windows mobile...iphone is coming.
CHris
CHris
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What does all of this mean ? ? ? A week or two ago you pointed out the significance of the ruling by the Librarian of Congress stating that bypassing software that locked a phone to a carrier did not constitute copyright infringement. While never working in telecommunications, I have been involved in a highly regulated industry for over 20 years and understand that such rulings do not come easily, and were not made because the Librarian of Congress felt sorry for a few geeks who want to run the AllTel UI on a Verizon phone. Your speculation that the ruling was the work of Steve Jobs and company may be spot-on.
However, even with such a ruling, there is still nothing to force a carrier to allow a third-party unlocked phone on their network...
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However, even with such a ruling, there is still nothing to force a carrier to allow a third-party unlocked phone on their network...
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Want_New_Phone said:...
What does all of this mean ? ? ? A week or two ago you pointed out the significance of the ruling by the Librarian of Congress stating that bypassing software that locked a phone to a carrier did not constitute copyright infringement... Your speculation that the ruling was the work of Steve Jobs and company may be spot-on.
As such, the only way we will see an unlocked iphone on Verizon (or any other CDMA carrier for that matter) in the near-future is if they voluntarily give up their walled-garden/controlled network business model. I respect your opinions and hope you can convince me I’m wrong, but I’ll be willing to make a friendly wager that we will not see unlocked iphones on the Verizon network
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I hope your right and appreciate your good work. Perhaps it's possible that Verizon will realize that an Iphone is an unstoppable force and they will get left in the dust if they don't come on board. We can hope it will be that easy.
Iphone on Verizon. I'll probably get four of them the first week they're out.
Iphone on Verizon. I'll probably get four of them the first week they're out.
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Want_New_Phone said:
I hope your right and appreciate your good work. Perhaps it's possible that Verizon will realize that an Iphone is an unstoppable force and they will get left in the dust if they don't come on board. We can hope it will be that easy.
Iphone on Verizon. I'll probably get four of them the first week they're out.
Well, I hope so too. On the purchase, I probably would stay loyal to Motorola. Expect that "the unstoppable force" will be to see more OEM features and fewer crippled handsets.
Verizon is already freeing up file transfer on the KRAZR, Q, LG enV, etc. You know that Apple won't allow feature crippling.
My daughter, though, she would NEED an iPhone, and so would my banker...
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an iphone will not have the capacity of a video ipod, i dont think it will replace peoples ipods, I just think its a chance for apple to take advantage of some of the good will and brand loyalty they has built with the Ipod name over the past few years. Whatever the case, it should be a good product and I hope it has some pda functions.
Chris
Chris
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Only thing to worry about is the give in/but hurt in another way philosophy that the carriers seem to all have. Crippling may finally go away (Thank God) but other methods may pop up to scare consumers from using free things. Maybe other WAP choices may go away soon!
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Raystream said:
Only thing to worry about is the give in/but hurt in another way philosophy that the carriers seem to all have. Crippling may finally go away (Thank God) but other methods may pop up to scare consumers from using free things. Maybe other WAP choices may go away soon!
Hey, Ray. Good to hear from you again since the V710 effort.
I think that the crippling is finally going away and that VZW will stop that practice for the good of the industry. History proves that technological holdbacks makes people in America mad and eventually they get what they paid for, or want to pay for.
Look at the new phones and all of those justifications for crippling OEM features seem to be going away by market...
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gunny said:
Verizon's latest projected launch estimate has set for launch on Janurary 30 a product called "AppZone". It is odd and rare for a product to appear within 60 days before shipping with nothing known about it. AppZone, when spoken slowly, does resemble "Apple's Phone". This is also in-line with Digg founder Kevin Rose's statements earlier this week, indicating that iPhone will be available on all carriers at-launch.
Hah, this rumor makes me laugh. AppZone is basicly GIN for PDA's. Handango, GPS software, etc.
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LordObento said:
Hah, this rumor makes me laugh. AppZone is basicly GIN for PDA's. Handango, GPS software, etc.
Don't laugh until after Mac World next month.
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Don't laugh until after Mac World next month.
There is no doubt that this fabled iPhone will be coming out. The rumors all around the web either say Cingular will have it 1st for six months or everyone (CDMA & GSM) will get it in January. But the AppZone is not a code word for apple iphone.
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LordObento said:
There is no doubt that this fabled iPhone will be coming out. The rumors all around the web either say Cingular will have it 1st for six months or everyone (CDMA & GSM) will get it in January. But the AppZone is not a code word for apple iphone.
I know that AppZone can stand for other things, but I would not rule out that it could be a placemarker for that phone.
Yes, there could be another "code word" as you call it. Maybe Steve Jobs won't know the actual name of that phone until the night before his keynote speech.
There has been so much secrecy, or at least non-publicity on this device, that I would not be surprised if a different name is announced.
Take note that iPhone.com and...
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Are you raving about this because you think that they'll sell a generic version that you can take to any carrier of that technology (i.e. iPhone CDMA iPhone GSM etc)? Or are you just an iPod junkie?
Personally I have no issue with my a950 and the music capabilities on that unit.
Personally I have no issue with my a950 and the music capabilities on that unit.
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temp_name said:
Are you raving about this because you think that they'll sell a generic version that you can take to any carrier of that technology (i.e. iPhone CDMA iPhone GSM etc)? Or are you just an iPod junkie?
Personally I have no issue with my a950 and the music capabilities on that unit.
Neither. Mega-Multi mode phones, 5 continents, GSM / CDMA / WCDMA are already out, like the Nokia N93. Also, I usually hate music. Never owned an Apple, never will.
On the other hand, watching a third party manufacturer get Congressional approvals for circumventing the locks that the major carriers have on handsets is more exciting than anything I can think of for the moment.
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The AppZone is more of a Gateway service... ability to connect to Itunes servers and watch and download all connect purchased plus purchase even more.
But lets expand it a little bit more. With Microsofts Zune you can transfer music to other devices, etc and those people can listen to it. Now imagine one persons iPhone can host (Stream) songs and Videos that other iPhone owners can connect to and watch\listen to! You could have people in a group all watching a movie that one person is hosting. It will act like a tiny web server.
Best example of this.... the Nintendo DS! With the ability to host multiplayer games.
It's funny how some much has changed all of a sudden with the announcement of the iPhone.
It wasn't to long ago that...
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But lets expand it a little bit more. With Microsofts Zune you can transfer music to other devices, etc and those people can listen to it. Now imagine one persons iPhone can host (Stream) songs and Videos that other iPhone owners can connect to and watch\listen to! You could have people in a group all watching a movie that one person is hosting. It will act like a tiny web server.
Best example of this.... the Nintendo DS! With the ability to host multiplayer games.
It's funny how some much has changed all of a sudden with the announcement of the iPhone.
It wasn't to long ago that...
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