Countdown to Apple iPhone Launch - Day 3 - June 29 release

Sunday night's ads in 60 minutes showed off several of the gadget's features and ended with the pronouncement that the phone will be available "Only on the new AT&T" and "Coming June 29." One other ad aired on the CW network before a 7 p.m. broadcast of "7th Heaven."

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What does Nokia's Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo have to say about the upcoming Apple iPhone launch?

Nokia NOK1V.HE, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, is investing in Africa to make the region its next big wireless market, Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said on June 01, 2007....

Kallasvuo said the entry of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) into the mobile phone business this month, with its widely anticipated iPhone, marks the first time in years that a major new rival joins the highly competitive market.

Asked how the iPhone, with its touch-sensitive screen, will change design trends in the industry and at Nokia, Kallasvuo hinted Nokia would offer more such technology in the future.

"I definitely believe touch screen will be something that will have increasing relevancy in the mobile phone," he said, "and we definitely are working on that."

Most Nokia phones operate with button keypads rather than touch-based commands. Its first touch-screen device, the Nokia 7700, came out in 1994. It now has touch-screen phones on sale in China and two tablet devices for surfing the Web on the go.

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Bottomline:

Apple iPhone is going to usher in a new era of touch-screen cell phones. Of course, Steve Jobs wants to downplay some of these key new innovations, and want you to focus on how you can browse the Internet on the iPhone, but let's face it: what do users use their cell phone the most for? Making / receiving calls, Texting or SMS, and checking voice mails. If Jobs is right though, browsing the Internet will become a huge thing thanks to the iPhone, and also listening to music.

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Countdown to Apple iPhone Launch - Day 1 - (NASDAQ: AAPL)

Apple iPhone is going to be launched towards late June, 2007. I am going to begin the Countdown to Apple iPhone Launch starting today.

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What will the Countdown to Apple iPhone Launch contain?

1. Latest news about iPhone

2. Latest blogs about iPhone

3. Latest gossips and rumors about iPhone

4. Anything else that is interesting about iPhone

Today's latest news about iPhone as reported in MarketWatch:

"But to hear Steve Jobs tell it, the device's strongest selling point may be neither.

As he touted the product to a gathering of tech industry executives this week at D - All things Digital, Apple's chief executive sounded most excited about the iPhone's Internet pedigree -- especially its ability to download and play videos.The iPhone comes equipped with "real versions" of the company's operating system and the Safari Web browser, Jobs said, which will allow Apple to deliver to consumers an experience that others have mostly failed to. "It's the Internet in your pocket," he said.

Even though cell-phone providers have spent billions to build out sophisticated networks to let handsets access the Web, "you can't do a lot with them," according to Jobs. "You get the 'baby Internet,'" he said. "People want to get the 'real Internet' on their phone," Jobs said.

During his presentation at the "D" - All Thing Digital conference in Carlsbad, Calif., Jobs managed to turn on its head the most common argument against the iPhone -- that its lack of a keyboard will be a huge negative for consumers used to texting on smart phones like the Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) BlackBerry and the Palm Inc. Treo.

Jobs acknowledged that the iPhone's touch screen will take some getting used to. "It takes about a week; you have to learn how to trust it," he said.

But the feature will provide the device with "incredible versatility," because it allows the device to offer users different interfaces for its different applications. To be sure, it's not that Jobs downplayed the product's music player capabilities. The iPhone "has the best iPod we've ever made," he said.

Still, he acknowledged that Cingular Wireless, which will be the only carrier to sell the product when it begins shipping next month, took a chance by agreeing to carry the product before Apple even showed it to them. "They took a gamble on us," because Apple has never made its own handset, "just as we took a gamble on them," Jobs said.

So why would Cingular, now a unit of AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), do it?

Because "music hasn't been good on the phone," he said, and the company felt that partnering with Apple was their best chance of improving that experience. If consumers agree, Apple's sales and stock price may continue to rise, and Jobs may once again look like a genius."

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