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Apple sends an iPhone email

iPhone email

So Apple send an email to everyone who registered to receive more information on the iPhone. Here’s what they write:

Talk to you soon.

Thanks for signing up. You’ll be the first to hear the latest about iPhone– coming this June. That gives you just enough time to think of ways to break the news to your current phone.

I’m still not sure if I’m really interested in the phone. I’ve had the chance to test Nokia’s phones and I’ve been a Nokia customer for ten years now, so I’m not sure if I’d want to make a change. I’m very happy with my Nokia N93, I’d like to test the Nokia N95 at some point. So far I haven’t had the chance.
So, I’m not super-psyched about the iPhone – I think that phones like the N93 and N95 already do everything that the iPhone offers. It’s not the phone but the OS that really might make a difference. Email is kind of bad on my N93, so that might be the ‘killer app’ for me. So, I’ll see about my next phone – especially since the iPhone is not 3G. I’m really more interested in the Nokia N95 – it has GPS built-in (which I think is neat).

The Apple iPhone and .Mac

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image via engadget

Apple showcased the new iPhone today – at 499 $ and 599 $ with a two-year contract through Cingular. It sports 4 GB or 8 GB of memory, WiFi, Edge, Bluetooth as well as some innovative interface navigation features. It also runs ‘on OS X’, whatever that means. I doubt that you can load your OS X apps like Firefox or VLC on this machine. (Not that you would need to, but you get what I mean.)

One thing disturbed me a bit, though: The push email support for the machine comes from Yahoo! email. What ever happened to .Mac? Is it correct to assume that Apple went with an outside company to provide the iPhone user with push email, rather than supplying it through .Mac AND an outside source? Weird.

Skype Video for Mac is here . . .

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Via TUAW:

Skype, today, released two treats for us Mac users: Skype Beta 1.5 and Skype Video preview. Both are basically the same program with the exception that that the Video preview supports video chatting, though it is in it very early stages so it will crash (the Beta is more stable).

New in Skype Beta 1.5 is a totally new (and Macified) UI, detachable call window, the ability to import contacts from Address Book and Entourage, and a bunch more. Check out the changelog for the full dope.

Skype is free.