I Eat Rainbows

Right. Although I have my absolute FINAL NOGOINGBACK THISISITHONESTLY Italian exams in just over a week (one day before my birthday. I’m not sure if that’s irony.), I just had to blog this:

Some time ago, I had a Pocket PC (I still have it). Avevo un PPC. It had a flimsy charging cable, which eventually broke. Ha avuto un cavo magro di ricaricare, che eventualmente ha rotto. So, about two and a half years ago, we bought what was advertised as a “complete iPaq charging solution”. Così, circa due e mezzo anni fa, abbiamo comprato una cosa che pubblicizzava come “un soluzione completo per il ricaricare del’iPaq”. It had: Aveva:

• A cable that went from the PPC to a USB port. Una cava che va dal PPC al USB.
• A car power to USB adapter.
• A power point to USB adapter, with changeable power points (Australia, America, Europe and India). Un adapter, con spini variabili.

It worked very well, and I remember being impressed at the thought and modularity that had gone into it. Lavorava benissimo, e ricordo che avevo impressionato con il reflessione ed il modulare che in l’ha andata. So, when I received an iPod about a year ago, my first thought was if the charging kit would work with the iPod. Così, quando ho ricevuto un iPod, la mia idea prima era se gli attrezzi funzionareste con il iPod. And, I tried it and I thought that it didn’t. E ho lo provato e ho pensato che non lui funziona.

A day ago, I decided to try the car charger with my iPod. Un giorno fa, ho deciso che provarei utilisare la ricarcare della macchina con il mio iPod. And, it actually worked! E ha funzionato stranamente! So I tried the rest of the kit, and it worked as well! Cosi ho provato lo resto degli attrezzi, e funziona anche! I’m not sure why I thought it didn’t originally. Non sono certo perche ho pensato che non funziona. I think at the time I was used to a large “battery charging” icon, and didn’t check the little battery icon at the top right corner. Ho pensato che a questo tempo ho stato abituato ad un grande icona de “recaricare di batteria”, e non ho veduto alla icona piccola nel destra del cima.

I checked, and both USB power outputs are completely standard. Ho verificato, e entrambi de USB sono norma completamente. So now I have a complete charging kit for any USB powered device! Cosi adesso ho un soluzione completo per il ricaricare della qualcosa con carica de USB!

There goes Jobs’ reality distortion field. Whoosh, it says. Wheee.
In the calm light of a couple of days later, the iPhone doesn’t look so hot — especially considering it won’t be user-developable.
US$500, + a 2yr contract, at minimum for a device with no 3G support.
Locked to Cingular.
In US in June; not in Asia until 2008.
Probably no Skype — Cingular would object.
Maximum 8 GB, for a device that’s supposed to be excellent for video.
Probably no Nike Sports kit
No one but those with Apple’s say-so can develop on it. According to Jobs,

These are devices that need to work, and you can’t do that if you load any software on them. That doesn’t mean there’s not going to be software to buy that you can load on them coming from us. It doesn’t mean we have to write it all, but it means it has to be more of a controlled environment.

I think mark, from [dive into mark], said it best when he said,

Translation: I made this beautiful thing, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to let you unbeautiful people fuck it up.

Me? I’m holding out for version three, or four. And only then if I can run Linux on it.

Wake up. Yawn.
Sit at computer. Check email.
Check feeds.
THE iPHONE IS OUT AND IT’S COOLER THAN…
Ok, wait a minute. What?
*Gasp* The iPhone! It’s out! It runs *bleep* Mac OSX!
Look, I can’t tell you this in all its awesomeness properly. Go read Engadget’s live — and awesome — reporting.
To wrap up:
They’ve taken one iPod, made it widescreen, with one physical button (home).
They’ve changed the internals sufficiently to run Mac OS X on it. (Awesome feature #4590: True multitasking!)
It does CoverFlow.
They’ve integrated a phone into it. (BTW, if you’re listening to music and a call comes in, it fades out the music! Then, it fades it back in when you’re done!)
It has a 2.0 megapixel camera, WiFi (b|g), EDGE and Bluetooth.
Rechargeable battery.
They’re running Safari on it.
They’ve partnered (well, sort of) with Google and Yahoo, for search, maps, and mail.
It’s controlled with thumb-sliding and a touchscreen (hope the screen’s harder to smudge than my iPod’s).
It syncs with iTunes 8.
It’s only available with Cingular in the US.
It’s available from June in the US, Q4 in Europe, and 2008 in Asia (Take that, Japan!)
4GB iPhone + 2yr contract = US$499. 8GB iPhone + 2yr contract = US$599
No details about other countries (say, Australia? Come on Steve!), but it is GSM, with a SIM card…

The other part I’m interested in? If it runs Mac OS X, who’s to say, with some kernel hacking, you couldn’t run Linux on it?

Excellent…