iPhone
Rating: yes we are at it too
GoMo has a man on the ground in the US with a Gold Amex and yes – even we want one…
Here are two blogs from guest blogger Ken Young from the UK Mobile Report.
iPhone queues? Pah… get someone to do it for you
The internet is the mother of invention.
Apparently all you have to do if you want an iPhone is go onto Craigslist.com and find yourself a professional queue-person. They are calling themselves iWaiters, because for $100 to $200 they will queue up for a few hours for you to get one of the precious little gadgets as they go on special sale tomorrow.
I think I’ll put this post on Craigslist:
Fancy your very own iPhone? UK-based iWaiter available for UK buyer. For only 1000 bucks I will fly over to the US, queue up for eight hours, buy you a phone, and bring it back to blighty. You won’t be able to use it unless you are spending time over there, but think how much you will be able to impress friends and enemies over here. Priceless.
Now if I can get multiple orders, that could be a very worthwhile trip. Better still if I could do an under the table deal with a US retailer…..
Friday sees the arrival of some phone or other known as Apple iPhone. Do we care about a phone that won’t even be here until year end or later? Do we care about a phone that is so overhyped that its arrival is bound to disappoint? You bet we do. But we are not going to join the cavalcade and give Apple millions more free bits of editorial coverage. Instead we’re going to reflect your viewpoints.
Some firms are getting their comments in even before the launch. Very wise we say. This just in from Carsten Brinkschulte, the CEO of Synchronica (www.synchronica.com):
“For service providers (operators, ISPs, ASPs) aiming to launch a mobile Email and synchronisation service, the launch of the iPhone will not change anything, really, it is just another (very sexy) smartphone.
“The aim for service providers must remain to support as many devices from as many vendors as possible, to ensure rapid takeup-rate for mobile Email and synchronization services. Therefore, we believe that supporting open industry standards is still the right approach as it enables mobile email and synchronisation to be used on hundreds of devices from all the leading manufacturers – without installing any client software on the phone.
“According to current information, the iPhone will ship with a built-in email client that supports IMAP and mobile Push email (IMAP IDLE). This means that Synchronica’s Mobile Gateway will be able to deliver mobile Push Email to the iPhone as it already supports the industry standard that Synchronica uses.
“Other vendors that rely on proprietary clients for push Email will find it impossible to support the iPhone, because apparently it does not allow the end-user to install additional applications. So this signals another victory for open mobile standards”.
What do you think? All comments gratefully received. Phone, email, text, or meet us down the pub.
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