April 2007 Archives

The question we get asked the most recently is "Where can I buy an iPhone?"

The obvious answer will be at any Cingular/AT&T dealer and most likely the Apple Store or Apple Store Online, but no one will be certain until Apple announces it's plan.

Many in the industry speculate that Cingular/AT&T will give a special break to newcomers to their network, and perhaps give discount for the 2 year agreement. Others speculate that the Apple Store will have some incentives for purchasing the product directly from them.

As soon as our sources confirm what the real scoop is, we'll post it here for you all!

With the internet swarming with opinions and speculation since the report of Apple Inc. (AAPL) push back of Leopard, their next update to OSX, everyone is wondering just WHEN is the iPhone going to be released?

Well our friends over at Apple let us know yesterday! In fact it was in the same announcement as the set back of Leopard to October. The first sentence in that statement is the answer.

"iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. "

Exactly what does late June mean? If we take a look at Apple's track record, we expect that late June means anywhere from the 20th to the end of June. We're betting on June 30th as a release day even though it's a Saturday.

This is news to us! Apple Inc. (AAPL) just released a statement that their eagerly awaited update to Mac OS X is going to be delayed until October due to using software engineers to work on the eagerly awaited iPhone.

Apple Statement

iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]

We at the iphone news blog believe that this was a smart move by Apple to utilize the best people to work on critical products when needed. Better late than full of bugs we say.

Today Apple (AAPL) emailed everyone who signed up for information on their soon to be released iPhone. The email notification was done up in simple Apple style. The message simply read:

"Thanks for signing up. You'll be the first to hear the latest about iPhone- coming this June. That gives you just enough time to think of ways to break the news to your current phone."

See graphic from the email for those of you who haven't gotten it yet:

Scribd has uncovered an Apple doc that showcases a diagram depicting the internal operations of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone.

What we know from this document:
Internal architecture is name Aloha!, Core Audio and Video, running on an ARM processor, there is mention of a Games Emulator.app and the GUI is called Onyx.

From the meta-data, this document looks to be real as it was created by Bertrand Serlet, senior vice president of software engineering at Apple.

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