Friday, July 13, 2007

The iPhone Up Close

As a Canadian, I am going to have to wait for the iPhone to come to Canada before I can consider purchasing one. However, I didn't have to wait to admire one up close.

I was recently travelling in the US and met a women who had waited four hours at an obscure AT & T store to get one of the thirty phones they had in stock. Most of everything I have read or seen led me to believe that the iPhone would be truly remarkable. Having had the opportunity to play with one and navigate through the various screens and applications, I have to say that it is more than remarkable-IT IS SPECTACULAR!

I am a reformed Crackberry addict and if the iPhone can cross the chasm between consumer toy to enterprise device then RIM should be very worried. Motorola has already been left in Apple's wake as a computer company showed a mobile phone company what a truly cool phone could be. Motorola relied on the Razr for much too long and was caught with little, if anything, in their innovation funnel.

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