No doubt about it, Apple’s iPhone is sexy. No doubt about it, back in its day Apple’s Newton was sexy too. Will I buy a super expensive iPhone just as Apple decides they are a flop and discontinues them? No! Will the iPhone go the way of the Newton? I’ll wait and see. But! Besides the Newton inspired worries I told Mike about, my main cause for concern on the iPhone is the battery life. Well, CES 2007 brings the introduction of a trickle-charging wireless power source which could basically eliminate battery life as an issue. Way cool!!
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The Newton was kewl. One of those things that was ‘ahead of it’s time’. The iPhone doesn’t feel that way to me. If Apple can navigate the tricky waters of the cell phone industry they could really affect some change here. I hope so. I don’t want to spend $600 clams for a phone but if it is really what it seems to be I may have to. BTW, I felt the exact same way about the iPod. Hmmm.
The wireless power thing reminds me of Nikola Tesla. I quote here from http://www.kerryr.net/pioneers/tesla.htm:
Tesla’s Magnifying Transmitter, an early type of Tesla Coil that measured 16 metres (52 feet) in diameter, could transmit tens of thousands of watts without wires.
Tesla managed to light 200 lamps, without wires, from 40 kilometres (25 miles) away. But his proudest achievement was the production of man-made lightning. The Magnifying Transmitter could produce incredible electrical flashes measuring up to 41 metres (135 feet).
Unfortunately, we don’t really know what the health risks are when people are exposed to these level of electromagnetic radiation.