The iPhone killed the SmartPhone

iPhone Originally uploaded by cjmartin. The stockmarket on anouncement of the Apple-iPhone. Stock chart for the 9th of January 2007, the day the iPhone was released. Compared are, Apple, Research in Motion, and Palm. MacWorld keynote is was from 12pm - 2pm. breakdown: 12:15 The Intel transition. 12:20 Paramount movies and the new iTunes ads. 12:25 AppleTV announcement and demo. Ships February 2007. 12:40 The iPhone. Ships June 2007. 12:40 It's an iPhone. It has no keyboard, runs on "OS X", syncs to your home computer OS X data, and has the following hardware features. 12:55 Interaction demo: multi-finger gestures, iPod functionality and cover flow. 1:00 Call-making demo: Conference calls and visual voice mail. 1:15 Content demo: iPhotos and rich text e-mail; surfing with Safari and Widgets. 1:30 Content providers: Google and Yahoo executives. 1:40 Accessories and Price announcement. 1:50 Cingular partnership discussed. 1:55 Wrapping up, thanking employees, mini-Concert. 2:10 The end. I'm interested to know what the consensus is out there, (please answer my poll on the top-left of the screen). On one hand the iPhone looks like the true all-in-one e-gadget that has long been promised. However there are still a number of unanswered questions not least regarding the keyboard interface. How effective a will the iPhone's button-less system will work for users who do a lot of thumb-typing? The keyboard is certainly one of the battlegrounds if the iPhone is to compete with incumbents like the Treo and Blackberry. The other area that was mentioned to me recently is the lack of 3G capabilities and the mobile internet facilities. The iPhone will also be able to connect to the Internet through Cingular's EDGE network however it will not be able to utilize Cingular's 3G/HSDPA network at launch. The iPhone's mini-Safari will no doubt compress images and code to minimise download overhead however the current NY times shown in the keynote example ~500kb would cost $5 to download! iPhone plans are likely to be unlimited packages - however if you're over the initial $500 outlay to get your hands on an iPhone this is probably a secondary issue.