amen!

I suppose I expected the future to be expensive, but never so easy to steal...

It would be neat if it supported sim cards...

If they are going to release it in Europe (and they are), the phone must support SIM cards. Nobody uses anything else over here.

In the presentation it says it has a SIM slot in the back.

Where are the naked women?

So, I'm waiting for SMISCUMMVMiPhone and i'm buying one.

I can't wait to use one on the moving sidewalk on the way to my flying car.

One out of three ain't bad.

The technical specifications say it runs off of OS X.  Somehow I doubt it.  But lets say it is, basically, OS X....ScummVM will be no problem.

ZOMG.  My mind reels with the possibilities.  Now, I'm not a super-tech-engineer dude, so this may be unfeasible for one reason or another, but think about this -> iPhone + Skype (or any other VOIP provider).  The iPhone is (supposedly) running OSX, and it's Wi-Fi enabled, so why not?  Free (or very, very cheap) phone calls from a mobile device, so long as you're near a hotspot, and there are more and more all the time.  

Plus, the latest iPods also play games.  Since this thing is essentially an iPod running OSX, with a touch screen... is there anything it won't be able to do?  I'm normally leery of convergent devices, but with Apple's hardware track record I'd have to say they're the most likely people to pull it off.  Dang, and I thought running ScummVM on my Nintendo DS was cool...

iBelieve this is bullocks because a phone that works by you simply bloody pointing to it will do a lot of unintentional things. Heck, my phone not only unlocks itself, calls-up everyone in the family and has since become the source of all chaos in the world. Now imagine you had something on the phone you didn't want anyone to see?

On the other hand, I haven't yet gotten around to reading science-fiction books, although I did order More Than Human because of the 100 Sci-Fi Books You Have to Read List I found on the Link Archives in this very site. Might also order Neuromancer eventually.

Nice, but I'm not exactly anticipating its arrival in Italy. With outrageous GPRS/EDGE rates and scarcity of free Wi-Fi hotspots, it makes no sense to use the device of the future in the country of the past.

Who cares for the device of the future when Adventure Gamers are forced to live in the past?

Atlantean wrote
Who cares for the device of the future when Adventure Gamers are forced to live in the past?

Are they? I swear I was just playing a game called Sam and Max: Situation: Comedy. And it's brand new.

Please don't take it as a completely serious comment, rather see it as a not entirely random venting of melancholy.

btw I love the new Sam & Max though I can't really call a game a proper adventure game if I don't have to play with a few friends simultaneously to get through it.
It's one of the things I miss most from my childhood, can't believe I just used that expression, the talking with friends coming up with new solutions growing ever more weird, desperate and absurd till we finally discover it.

Liked Ankh a lot as well btw, though the ending felt rushed or unpolished.

Oh. Well they're going to get harder over time, if that'll make you happy.

Come to think of it, mobile hones are quite a nasty idea...

Adventure games are not just point and click. That is just the medium.

Looks nice.  Unfortunately, I'm still looking for a device I can use to place phone calls without having a PhD in computer science. Really, I don't need any of the additional bells and whistles.  Why can't we have the option to purchase a $20-50 cell phone that is just that - a cell phone?

(This is not an anti-Apple rant, even though I was kinda hoping that Apple would go the "simplify to the extreme" rule.  As Saint-Exupery said, "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.")

Apple (and many other companies) has to keep moving and sadly the only way "forward" seems to be: add more crap.

I'm really tired of Apple trying to sell me a lifestyle. I know, pretty much all companies try to do this, but Apple also tries to come off like the cool-against-the-grain one.

I agree with you. These consumer electronic companies http://wholesalers123.tripod.com should put their efforts on mobile phone that have more battery life, ergonomic and easy to use. These people are making the new generation dumps making gadgets that do everything for them. Last week I saw an article in the news paper about robots with which people can have sex with... ridiculous...
It is not the companies I should blame... rather our selves.. we are learning too much that we start forgetting to live just like humans..

I'm sorry if this is offensive to anyone, but... Should I be excited yet? Really. It's a phone. I just can't get excited over... A phone.

I can't believe how gullible people can be over Apple products.

It's the Homer Simpson's invention! (episode 2F14)

Cool , if it wasn't that there is a telephone in it! ( i really hate telephones! they start ringing right when you've something other to do..  )

ps : happy to see there are other italians ^^

bye!!

That's it. I'm officially "out of touch" as of today. First I thought Ron's post was a joke, a comment on how we like to make gadgets based on the 60s idea of the future, after which we find out that no one wants it. But after that I see that just about every single blog/news site on the planet is raving about fantastic the iPhone is. And then I see this is going to cost $600... Weird...

So... what is it this phone can do that my Palm Treo can't? Look sexy and immediately identify me as a user thru the use of easily-identifiable white headphones? Yeah.

What can I do on my Treo that this can't do? Well, play Monkey Island 2 using ScummVM... there's a start... How about 'download and use third party apps'... How about 'utilize 3G network connections that are faster than 100kbps or so'.... How about 'allow me to create custom ROMs'... Allow me to create my own software... Use it on any network... Watch movies without submitting myself to iTunes... Oh I'm running out of energy to write more. But there are more. Many more.

The first problem is : virtual keyboard :(
In Star Trek, they don't use this crap on their PADDs... Btw, for my anti-apple point of view, it's a Star Trekkisation or Apple conversion of the recents PocketsPC like Eten M600 / M700 (which offer GPS and a nice crashing but with many softs Windows Mobile 2005 !).
As for iPod, it's more for who wants good looking object than ones with more possibilities and freedom.
With my Eten M600, I can listen to MPC files (better quality at bigger bitrates). I doubt I can even think of it with apple stuff... I can listen to apple music and that's all.

September 8, 2005 in article Ooh La La:

I like OpenGL a lot better then D3D, plus it runs on the Mac.  Speaking of the Mac, what the hell is up with that stupid iTunes phone?   Half the reason I love Mac's and everything Apple is the industrial design, and that phone is just a crappy phone.

very interested theme; I will back

The first problem is : virtual keyboard :(
In Star Trek, they don't use this crap on their PADDs... Btw, for my anti-apple point of view, it's a Star Trekkisation or Apple conversion of the recents PocketsPC like Eten M600 / M700 (which offer GPS and a nice crashing but with many softs Windows Mobile 2005 !).
As for iPod, it's more for who wants good looking object than ones with more possibilities and freedom.
With my Eten M600, I can listen to MPC files (better quality at bigger bitrates). I doubt I can even think of it with apple stuff... I can listen to apple music and that's all.