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iPhone on June 29th
Or so Engadget is reporting. For around $600 on AT&T, you’ll be able to get your own Apple iPhone at the end of the month. Will it be worth it? Who knows, but at least it’ll look cool in your hand.
Personally, I’m not impressed with the device but I’m sure that the iPhone will have Apple’s trademark style and panache that it spends innumerable hours on during the product development cycle. Should be interesting to finally see it in the wild, but I’ll not be pursuing a test unit myself.
Via: Engadget – iPhone release date confirmed: yours on June 29th
Macs get EVDO Support from Sprint
Today Sprint announced it was expanding system support for EVDO to the Apple Macintosh. Utilizing the Sierra Aircard 595, Macs will now be able to leverage the EVDO (including Rev. A) networks on Sprint. Good news!
Via: Phone Scoop – Sprint Adds Mac Support for EV-DO
Blast from the past – part one
For those interested, I’m going to post a few times on some old favorites. And for hand-held PDAs that offer handwriting recognition – the Apple Newton was the holy grail of this platform in the early nineties.
I happened to own and use the MessagePad 120*, purchasing it in early 1995 (before the 2.0 OS upgrade – ‘ya can’t win ‘em all). The device traveled with me on many consulting gigs all over Minneapolis and some business trips around the states until 1998 when I moved on to a newfangled Windows CE device.
For some, the original MessagePad 100/110 was more special, or the later MessagePad 2000/2100 that came along later in 96/97 and had much more advanced features. Still, many will simply point to the handwriting recognition engine in the Newton, and the simple easy to use interface that took mere minutes to grasp.
The downsides of grayscale only, size, heft, performance, and difficult connectivity to Windows was a big hindrance to wide adoption. Cost and functionality compared to the upcoming PalmPilot at the time made the Newton an also-ran in the PDA world.
I still have my MessagePad 120, and I still use it – for nostalgia’s sake. It really was a nice device, but of course can’t compare to devices ten years later.
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* – Did you notice that Apple kind of had Microsoft’s naming issues in the early nineties – Apple Newton MessagePad 120, they sure have improved i.e. Apple iPod.