Apple redesigns the Phone

On their Web site Apple claims to have redesign and reinvent the cellphone. More specifically, they make claims of "a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching", all combined in one small device.

Not only have they have major challenges with the name, iPhone, but as well they are making a false claim. In my opinion they are far from redesigning the phone. They basically have taken and iPod and added a touchpad for dialing. Another way to view this is that they have taken the Smartphone and added an ipod to it.

The bottom line is that you cannot make such large claims without being able to back them up. Today's consumer is technological savvy. The Web is an avenue into all the information the consumer needs to compare and understand all products. When you claim to revolutionize something you have best be prepare to state how, not simply tell me that I can use a wheel to select a name to dial. Perhaps Apple has never heard of Skype. Skype can claim to have redesigned the way people communicate, they were first to create a network of VoIP and softphone users with point and click to dial abilities. As for mp3 capabilities, hello Apple, this is old news and far from redesigned. My Verizon Phone from Motorola is two years old and has many capabilities; from randomizing playlists to playing video to Internet access and Vcast for TV viewing. Face it Apple, you are very late to a mature industry... As they say, too little too late. Now go out there and pay the high tag for something you don't need, you never going to use, but you can tell all your friends you own.