iPhone Coming June 29!!

Well it’s official! The iPhone is to be released June 29th. I am relieved! Apple officially announced it in their new iPhone commercials. I don’t know about you, but it’s easier for me to wait when I have an end date. Hence the countdown clock to the left (courtesy of www.hashemian.com). Woohoo! It’s less than a month away! ☺ I have also added a subscription form, so I don’t spam everyone every time I add an new entry to this blog. Sign up and you’ll be sent update notices automatically via email. And if you don’t sign up I won’t spam you. So, sign up! The subscription form is under the iPhone image to the left. Finally, I want to thank everyone that received my initial announcement. Your feedback was great! ☺ I want to especially thank C Dotson ;) for submitting the first comment and inquiry. I did some research and the rumor is the Chinese character version of the iPhone will be released in 2008. I’ll keep you posted.
Well now it’s time to get ready for our iPhones. If you’re like me I don’t use the Contacts and Calendar on my iPod. Since iTunes will be used to sync the Calendar and Contacts, I think it’s time to do some testing. I have an iPod Nano, an iPod Photo, and an iPod Video (I know, way too many, maybe I’ll post one or two on craigslist). So, my next post will be on the migration of my contacts and calendar from my Moto Razr V3 and my Palm Tungsten E (I told you I held out) to my iPods. This will be done on my PowerBook G4 and my iMac. If I’m feeling especially generous I might test iTunes on a PC. It all depends on my patience quotient, and if anyone really wants me too ;)
Have a miraculous week!
Go Go Gadget Gurl!

The Apple iPhone is Sweeet!

So, after reviewing what I wrote on Sunday. I decided maybe it was a good time to check out the keynote Steve Jobs gave at MacWorld in January 'O7 in which he announced the iPhone. I'm sure you all are thinking that I would have already done that, but I hadn't....for some reason I kept putting it off everytime I visited the apple.com site to look at iPhone pictues and read about it (yes, I did this more than a few times). I have to say, now, after looking at the keynote, the iPhone is Sweeet! I am more excited now than I was before....maybe it was a good thing I waited to listen to the keynote, because I really really really want one now. I woke up this morning feeling like I've been waitin' in line for tickets to see a Prince concert (and that's the only artist I have ever stood in line to get tickets for). My favorite feature? Visual Voicemail. You see a voice mail list. It's a list of your voice mails on the screen, and you can select which one you want to listen to. If you want to listen to the fifth message, you don't have to listen to the four before it, or skip through them to get to the fifth message. You just select the fifth message from the list, or the second, or the third, it's your choice! Nice!

Oh yeah I have one take back -- the web sync with your .Mac account idea -- it seems that I was a little over zealous with that idea. The Apple iPhone is going to sync through iTunes for PC and Mac users. So, you'll sync your calendar and your contacts through iTunes the same way iPod users sync up the contacts and calender on their iPod now (I'm guessing they do, I don't...yet) -- put the iPhone on it's dock and it automatically charges and syncs contacts, calendar, music, video, and photos. Very cool. I still like the web sync idea...future feature.

Finally, I decided to check out some Apple iPhone forums to see if their were updates on the release date, and what the memory sizes will be, because a salesperson at Cingular told me the iPhone would be released in 20GB, 40GB, and 80GB models. From everything I've read today this is way wrong. In the MacWorld announcement Steve Jobs said it would be released in 4GB and 8GB models. After reviewing everythingiphone.com and cnet.com I found no recent news disputing this. Those sizes seem small for video, but the sizes are the same as the iPod Nano's memory sizes. And the iPod Nano is the best-selling iPod in the iPod family. 'Nuff said until we get to use it. On the forums and news it seems that Apple is now saying the release date is late June. The latest date I saw was June 29th. Some reports said June 2oth. Ugh! And there is a news report saying that the release will definitely not coincide with WWDC '07 which starts June 11th. Ugh! I know, I know, "Patience is a virtue. Whenever the iPhone is released , it will be the perfect time"...yada, yada ,yada....I want my iPhone;) Go Go Gadget Gurl!