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  • Somebody, please get Eric Schmidt an iPhone

    Filed under: ATT , Apple Ok, imagine this for a second. You're Eric Schmidt -- head of the most powerful internet company in the world, worth $4.8 billion dollars, member of Apple's board of directors... and you don't carry Apple's new cellphone. So what's a brother got to do to get a friggin iPhone ? Check this: Walt: "... Steve was flashing his iPhone around. I held it for 20 minutes." Eric mentions he hasn't held it, and doesn't have one. Walt: "Your a member of Apple's board! Eric: "No...I'm still waiting for mine." So either Eric still has his iPhone in pocket-stealth mode, or Steve's totally stiffing his bud down in Mountain View -- we're bummed either way. P.S. -Walt asked about the Google phone , which Eric non-denial denied exists . Instead Eric just talked about phones, platforms, application layers, partnerships with KDDI, LG, Samsung, etc. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
  • Google cooking up more apps for the iPhone and other details

    Filed under: Software , ATT , Apple So The Seattle Times got a sit down with the rather guarded Glenn Lurie, AT&T's man on the ground for the iPhone . While he didn't give much up in the way of the phone's finer details, he did have one takeaway that left us interested. When asked about the mass skepticism over the iPhone's price, he replied "... There are other things -- you have the widgets, some of the Google applications that are coming -- there are just so many things here that the price will not be an issue." Now, we don't want to get all weird here and read tea leaves, but he did say Google applications (as in plural), so we think it's safe to say Google has more planned than just Gmaps for the iPhone. We wouldn't be surprised to see a Google news reader, Gmail, or even Gcal apps on there, but given the fact that Apple already has its own agenda for mail, calendaring and the like, it might stand to reason the iPhone won't be locking its users out of 3rd party add-on apps after all. Another interesting detail: "people are going to be asked to have an unlimited [data] package" with the iPhone. Hm, no surprise there. Ok, discuss / argue amongst yourselves. Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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