 20070109
It makes me happy that beautiful devices exist in the mainstream, and no longer just in Japan.
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Joshua Blankenship said... Ditto. It's a sad statement on American design that one company (with a relatively small team working on the product) can solve so many issues that seem to plague other companies. Granted, that company is Apple... but still... it's like there's only one UI/ID company innovating in the U.S. That being said, is it June yet? My Treo sucked before, now it feels like a toy. 4:45 PM said... Wow, it is beautiful! Outside and inside. It has everything I'd like on a mobile and that interface and finger-based multi-touchscreen is just superb. It's the PDA re-invented (even though it's not really trying to be one). Things I miss: 3G (kind of an obvious one) and bluetooth GPS support (if it really does not come to support it -- no word on that yet). 5:02 PM roraz said... ive been waiting for a widescreen video ipod, since the last one came out. and now it does, with a built in smart phone and internet/email with mobile osx died and gone to heaven!! this will be the best bit of geek kit of 2007 plus I work for car phone warehouse here in the UK, and I can't wait till this becomes available (sell like hot cakes) - so I can get my mitts on one 5:36 PM Ralph Bodenner said... Looks pretty sweet (surprise). Funny that you mention Japan--the iPhone won't be available there until next year: http://jeansnow.net/2007/01/10/no-iphone-in-japan-until-2008/ 6:45 PM William said... I don't really like it, but I like the direction it's going in. No third-party development? WTF? why? No buttons? This is a serious UI gaff. We're as tactile as we're visual. Zach, ask Jake about my solution, if he can remember. The best part? It is really pushing GSM and open standards in telecommunications. There's a long way to go, however. We don't we have phones like Japan and Europe because of the practices of cell providers in the US. Locked phones, different protocols... our progress is being stifled by this kind of behavior. They don't want their customers to have open access to data. 10:45 PM Post a Comment |
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 Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old. I have another blog called Copy and Taste, where I post about learning to cook. I live in Brooklyn now.  Del.icio.us My Flickr Me on Flickr Last.fm Linked in MySpace Netflix History Vimeo  Amir Blumenfeld Chris Bodenner Mareen Fischinger Fort Wayne Observed Nick Gray Hype Machine Jake and Amir Jakob Lodwick Oh My Rockness Jonathan Marcus Youngna Park Megan Scheminske Eliot Shepard Shorpy Signal vs. Noise Alex Soth Stereogum Ricky Van Veen Khoi Vinh Eugene Wyatt   Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |