AT&T President Reveals Details about iPhone
That was even a few days earlier then we predicted here at The Apple Press. Yes, the details weren’t so….major and the ‘leak’ came from an AT&T national distribution president rather than the iPhone trainees. However we’ll still count this one as a brownie point towards our prediction-reliability scale. But let’s go on with the real news:
The Seattle Times Newspaper today interviewed Glenn Lurie, AT&T’s point man on the iPhone project, who revealed some new information about the device.
I think when people get their hands on it and really experience it — the touch screen is phenomenal, this touch screen is like nothing you’ve ever used — to experience that, the skepticism, I think, around some of those things will go away.
I’m the first one to admit, that I’ve been skeptical about the touch-screen for a long time. Who can blame me; I used to have a Dell PDA with Windows Mobile. However, more and more people keep hyping Apple’s patented touch-screen. There must be some facts behind the hype. I’m starting to believe.
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.
Widgets and Google applications. So there will be a few new software additions that iPhone users can look forward to. Great.
One of the things with this device — people are going to be asked to have an unlimited package — people are going to have to have a package with us to browse. That’s one good thing for everybody.
In other words: ‘Get your credit cards ready, because we’ll be charging the hell out of your account every month starting in June. It’s a good think for….uhhmmm…. us…’
When asked to take out the iPhone that Lurie had been using for some time now he refuses: “Can’t do that.”
Why not? There might be more to the iPhone than even this interviews leads on to. Later this week we should hopefully know more, once the AT&T employees start their training on the device.
Stay Tuned.
