“In a departure from the design of the 3G and 3GS, removing the screws releases the rear case, not the front glass.” So this is the first Apple Phone that allows customers to easily replace the battery!

not excited, I would rather overpay for my phone service @ $100 a year than overpay for my phone service @ $30 a month.

who actually needs those features in a phone? its just a gadgetry frill ultimately (It doesn’t even make decent quality phone calls!).

As far as I’m concerned Apple commits crimes against humanity for their relentless pursuit of the “magic box” philosophy of computing.

@Paul

“It doesn’t even make decent quality phone calls!”

If you read any of the reviews (the Engadget one addresses this particularly well), the new antennas made from the side of the phone cut down significantly on dropped calls, despite AT&T’s abysmal network.

@Chirs,
Try a Nokia E72.

I don’t like the philosophy of the iphones, but i have to say it’s beautifully designed.

Unbelievable. The same people who bashed Windows for being to locked up and not open source now go nuts for a teardown of a device that doesn’t even let you run you own software? Crippleware anyone?

@EquinoXe agreed. still like windows mobile better :) cant wait for the 1st win mobile 7 phone to go on sale!

“but how excited are you for the iPhone 4?”

Not at all. Walled Garden, DRM, iTunes, Steve’s Word is Law, and the worst Carrier/Network on the planet – AT&T, I’ll pass.

@Chris…
a smartphone that will last through a weekend?
My UNLOCKED Nokia E63 needs charging every three days of INTENSIVE use.
E71 (with GPS) is equally equipped.
regarding the IPhone, well… Not yet.
I don’t like being forced to use a particular company or plan.
Nice toy, though, just like my IPod Touch (AKA IPad nano)

The “sheeps” are going to keep buying because they don’t consider it locked down. Why should they when the thing fulfills everything they want and with style? You, and by you I mean the visitors of HAD, are on the fringe of the demand spectrum. Apple recognizes that and that is why they are selling so well. Most people aren’t engineers and don’t care for the extra functionality and the hassle that comes with it. What they do value is the user experience and the quality of the features they can/do use. Personally, I am more tempted to buy one but I’d rather not pay $360 or $600 overhead of the capped data plans and keep my week long charge of my dumbphone.

I’ve got four words to say about the new I phone meh, get a droid

Not like we haven’t seen these guts before…lol.

Funny story, all these iPhones shipped today, and I was waiting on my Nexus One. :D

As far as I know, the Android system has been doing something similar since it came out.

Most applications consists of “pages” that the code moves back and forward through, much like a website. However, once it’s finished generating, it effectively goes on “standby” until input is detected (via a callbacks or “intents”, I think). To achieve an actual background application (like a media player), you have to write a service.

The advantage of this method, imho?

For (a stupid) example, say something is taking a while to download inside an app. You decide that it’d be a good idea to go run off and check mail.

Fruit: You *SUSPEND* the app that’s downloading. You check your mail. You come back. Your download resumes (or is reset, since connection lost)
Android: You switch out the download. You check your mail while the download is still running (lower priority, presumably). You come back. Your download is closer to completion / completed.

As a developer, why would I write a background task for something that might come up only once in a while?

However, as it was said before… It doesn’t matter. iPhone didn’t really need multitasking. I mean, look how popular they are anyway. They could sell a shiny iCrap and people would buy it. I don’t care. I don’t buy it. I did, however, hope that Palm would have sold better. We could have used a 4th party to compete.

@golddigger: not possible on 1st gen iPhones or iTouches. Steve dropped support for these two devices. There is a team that is supposedly working on porting iOS4 to these devices, but it looks like just another scam. Time to upgrade ;D