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Check macrumors.com for some links to Pogue, Engadget et al on the iPhone. Lotsa hearsay and rumours at this point, but it's a helluvan intriguing device.[/i]

What rumors--its real and the links are above in the thread--and at Apple

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what Method said. FFS, Dude, can't you read your own board? :lol:

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Looks like my forecast isn't too far away :)

Phone as Projector

At the trade show that introduced the VCR and DVD, the perennial question on the show floor always seems to be, “What’s next?”

Alexander Tokman, president and chief executive of Microvision, a light-scanning technology company based in Redmond, Wash., thinks he may have the answer: a projector that turns cellphone video into a big picture.

Mr. Tokman said his new chip-size color laser projection displays are intended to be embedded in mobile devices so they can project images on flat surfaces. A demonstration showed a prototype in a mock cellphone beaming clear video images on a screen about the size of a standard laptop computer’s.

Microvision executives said the projector, which does not use a lens, projects images by scanning them top to bottom and back and forth faster than the eye can detect. It is also capable of “infinite focus,” meaning the images stay in focus at any distance, even on curved and uneven surfaces. This, Mr. Tokman said, also helps the projector to display large images without their becoming pixilated.

He said the projector “can eliminate the bottleneck” that limits the appeal of games and video content that is increasingly migrating to cellphones and other mobile devices.

The company plans to release the technology first as a stand-alone accessory for mobile devices later this year, said Matt Nichols, a company spokesman.

By 2008, he said, Microvision hopes to see the projectors embedded in leading cellphones.

One thing not on display was any estimate of what consumers might expect to pay.

Source: NY Times

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The Japanese are yawning At IPhone's Arrival. In SE Asia, they run cellphones on 3G (equivalent to broadband), have video calling, webrowsing and full functionality on their cellphones...

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The Japanese are yawning At IPhone's Arrival. In SE Asia, they run cellphones on 3G (equivalent to broadband), have video calling, webrowsing and full functionality on their cellphones...

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Doesn't everywhere? I've had a 3G phone with all that functionality for a couple of years now and I was a late comer. Don't tell me the great USA is way behind with technology.

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iPhone & LG KE850: separated at birth?

Two sparsely-buttoned large, touchscreen phones: the Apple iPhone, and the LG KE850 (which already won the International Forum Design Product Design Award for 2007). Separated at birth, or possible lawsuit number two for Apple? You decide.

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Separated at birth... The notion of touch screens isnt revolutionary--putting a full operating system in a handheld set is. Apple used OS10 as its model. FYI, I think LG manufactures Apple's screens--they may also be involved in manufacturing Apple's IPhones--i doubt they will sue one of their biggest customers

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In his op-ed at the NY Times, Randall Stross says the new IPhone comes with crippleware: If “crippleware” seems an unduly harsh description, it balances the euphemistic names that the industry uses for copy protection. Apple officially calls its own standard “FairPlay,” but fair it is not.

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BoingBoing is even harsher - says the phone is a roach motel business model lol

I have a feeling that a number of these issues will eventually be worked out--there are always workarounds, so I will get the Phone. Hopefully we see DRM die a quick death at Apple, Microsoft and everywhere else in the next few years

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