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iPhone Wins Best of Show at CES
Friday January 07, 2000
The InfoGear iPhone has been announced as being the winner of the Innovations Best of Show award in the Online/Internet category at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The iPhone features a telephone with a touch screen, keyboard and software that allows users to communicate by phone and e-mail, access the Internet, and conduct online shopping and home banking, all from one appliance.
Along with winning the award, InfoGear also announced today the new main screen for its award-winning iPhone. Now, the touch screen features eight easy-to-use buttons that link to useful information. The new Shopping and Food buttons connect users to the most popular sites for recipes, local "take out" restaurants, shops, stores, and e-tailers. Additional features include a new Search Box that simplifies web searching, and a Stock Quote search for instant access to stock information. The new features complement the existing one-touch buttons including the Directory button; the Internet and E-mail buttons; the Listings button; and the Call Log and telephony Settings buttons.
The iPhone features a tilt screen, which makes reading easy, a laptop-sized keyboard, and a 56-kbps modem. The iPhone can support up to four e-mail profiles, and it also offers a speakerphone, digital answering machine, and two separate phone lines allowing users to browse the Web or send e-mail while simultaneously talking on the phone. Price: $399.
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Back: http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,5188,00.html
Gadget: iPhone
www.infogear.com
For the last two years, Internet appliances have been hyped as the next wave in personal computing. Designed for Internet access, such devices are meant to be easier to use, more dependable and less expensive than full-blown PCs. While other companies struggle to meet the low-cost, high-value challenge, InfoGear is closest to the brass ring with its second-generation iPhone.
Combining a high-end telephone and digital answering machine with a touchscreen, keyboard and 56K modem, the iPhone is an all-in-one telecommunications hub. The laptop-size keyboard slides out from the underside of the console, making even lengthy e-mail compositions a breeze. The tiltable LCD screen crisply displays Web pages, but its lack of color detracts from Web surfing.
The iPhone is outfitted with jacks for two phone lines, but it's also ideal if you're a call-waiting subscriber with only one voice or data line. The iPhone's biggest annoyance, however, is that users are required to sign up for the InfoGear Network, even if they already have an ISP. One saving grace is that the minimum $4.95 subscription gets local content delivered directly to your iPhone.
Of course, the iPhone is no substitute for a full-featured desktop PC. But you never expected your microwave to replace your entire kitchen, did you?
– David Pescovitz
THE DETAILS
Price: $59 to $199 (depending on the plan)
Requirements: A telephone line and
subscription to the Big Planet Internet Service
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