A leaked sales training manual for the iPhone has the interwebs in a tizzy as new details have emerged. I, for one, am appalled at a few of the things that have been excluded, while a handful of other details make me want to cash in some bonds to afford this new wonder phone. Enough of the chitter-chatter, let’s get on with the show.
I’ve selected some of the details that made my jaw drop for your pleasure, but if you feel the need to peruse the entire thing then feel free to hop on over to Mac Rumors and check it out. I won’t be offended, I promise.
The Good
- If you choose to answer the call, the video will pause and resume once the call ends.
- iPhone lets you carry on a phone conversation while you simultaneously browse the Internet or send an email.
- There is a vibrate mode.
- All videos play in landscape mode/
- If you prefer your widescreen content to take up the entire screen, you can double tap the video and iPhone will automatically scale the video to take up the entire screen.
- Media Net, MobiTV, or Cellular Video are not available on iPhone.
- Double tap an object to make it fill the screen, and double tap to zoom out
- Can have multiple websites open at once and switch between them
The Bad
- iPhone will not support the TeleNav solutions currently offered by other AT&T devices
- GPS is not part of the iPhone feature set.
- iPhone users will not be able to conduct IM conversations with instant messaging users.
- Does not support MMS messaging for photos or videos.
iPhone Details from AT&T’s Sales Training Workbook [Mac Rumors]
There are way to many features missing or not available yet in this first gen for most people to spend $600. Playstation 3 comparisons?
The price will come down, but give it a couple years.
I read that the browsing internet with talking only works with wi-fi and not the at&t internet connections. A few of those things would be fixable through firmware hopefully.
“I read that the browsing internet with talking only works with wi-fi and not the at&t internet connections. A few of those things would be fixable through firmware hopefully.”
That is absolutely false.
EDGE would just kill it for me, given the pricepoint and ‘expectations’ I would have for the phone. But for others, hey, who knows. It’s shiny and all. I am sick of the hype but glad that it will drive innovation.
how in the world can you not include MMS???? to me that is a serious flaw with this phone.
I agree with you PureChinoy. No MMS support is a crazy omission.
Does not support MMS. How lame is this!
It’s bad enough that it can’t take VIDEO, now you can’t even send your stupid pictures to friends? Good gravy! I’m a 3-Mac 2-iPod owner, but I already hate the iPhone. It’s a sad statement on the lameness of American cellular options when we get all worked up for an iPhone with this many deficiencies, while Nokia has already offered WiFi, GPS, and awesome audio-visual capability in the N95. Totally worth an extra $200.
“That is absolutely false.”
Actually, he’s probably right
you simply cannot have 2 connections running at the same time, unless it has 2 radios in it. Which, my MDA can do both internet and phone calls as well if there is wifi available, so it’s not exactly a crazy new feature
these are all features that can easily be added in one of apple software updates, that is the way they made the ipod able to support games, plus it is the companys first ever phone and it is a pretty good first phone.
Mr and Mrs Dell, don’t worry all is well with the MACs and “Miphone” is worth every penny, nickle, and dime. I don’t miss people wasting my time sending me stupid pictures (MMS or Video) when I can just goto “You Tube”, “Safari”, or “Mail” and look at what “I” want to look at “When” I want to look at it! Come to the other side we only have nice things to say about our computers :)
Im taking my iphone back and getting a microsoft phone because it does not support mobile tv it sucks and bill gates rules