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iPhone Blessed
Posted by rod@drury.net.nz in Apple, Communications at 4:10 pm on Thursday, 28 June 2007

As Peter reports, the iPhone has been given the thumbs up.

For us in New Zealand, and in corporateland, it’s going to be frustrating to look and not touch. AT&T even lock the iPod features until you register and the minimum is a $US60 per month call plan. And in the iPhone case SIM locked really does mean SIM locked.

Exchange support won’t really exist (it will do iMap) and no push ala BlackBerry. So for now I still lust after the BB8800 which is pending (I hope).

I wonder:

At least by the time it gets here it will be 3G and hopefully have some enterprise support.

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Comments(14)

    Comment by Dylan at 5:47 pm on 28 June 2007

    The nzherald reported today that Vodafone are currently in talks with Apple, and if the talks are successful that Vodafone NZ will likely be part of the deal.

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10448406




    Comment by Ben Kepes at 6:08 pm on 28 June 2007

    question is which will happen first - the 2nd generation rip offs or Apple bringing it here via vodafone

    My guess is both around the same time

    I remember a decade or so ago when NZ was seen as some of the earliest adopters in the world and was used as a testing ground for new tech - my how times have changed




    Comment by Juha at 8:44 pm on 28 June 2007

    Oh please… it’s IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) and not iMap… :P




    Comment by Ben Kepes at 10:46 pm on 28 June 2007

    Brave call Juha

    Not many would get away with correcting Rod like that but you and the Godfather can

    ;-)




    Comment by James at 11:55 pm on 28 June 2007

    Sounds like Exchange support might be included in the first version after all:
    http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=534




    Comment by Bruce Hoult at 1:22 am on 29 June 2007

    Can someone please explain what is supposed to be so bad about IMAP? It supports appropriate security (SSL, encrypted logins), is mature and stable, and is purportedly supported by Microsoft Exchange.




    Comment by Paul Campbell at 4:24 am on 29 June 2007

    well I agree IMAP is great and secure - but apparently a poor stepchild at microsoft - I use it to get mail from my home linux mail server in NZ and the work exchange server in the US - the exchange implementation sucks badly - currently I’m visiting the US, sitting 4 rooms from the exchange server and my mail in NZ still works faster that the one here. There’s some weird TCP scaling thing too - from outside the building an 8M attachment can take 30 minutes to download (not just from NZ, from the hotel down the road).

    So, in short, IMAP good, exchange bad




    Comment by Andrew at 9:46 am on 29 June 2007

    According to my sources, the BB 8800 will be available (via Vodafone NZ) at the end of August for approx. $1,100 :)




    Comment by Glynn at 2:07 pm on 29 June 2007

    The IMAP specification is a little unclear in places though - at least enough to cause the various different implementations to have their own issues, both at server and client level. I’ve yet to see a good implementation of offline IMAP support that works well enough to be useful.




    Comment by Sara at 9:58 am on 1 July 2007

    http://machinist.salon.com/




    Comment by Wireless Kiwi at 6:39 am on 3 July 2007

    I beleive that Vodafone will be releasing the BlackBerry Curve (8300) not the 8800…

    As for IMAP email, it is the best email protocol if you are using serveral computers/devices to access your email as it keeps all your inbox’s in ’sync’. unfortunately unless you have access to your own server I beleive that the none of the local ISP’s support it with the exception of Vodafone.




    Comment by James Heyward at 8:01 am on 13 July 2007

    iPhone is a sexy toy . .NOT a business tool . .




    Comment by Mac at 3:58 pm on 21 July 2007

    You may be better off with this one, open source is the future !

    GPS, Touch Screen, WiFi, GSM (NOT locked), IMAP, actually, anything at all, because it’s OPEN SOURCE !

    http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page

    compared to the iPhone…

    http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/IPhone




    Comment by So at 12:19 am on 22 July 2007

    i hope this phone will be all its hyped up to be.
    its not yet released in the UK but i cant wait.