iPhone euPhoria (page 2 of 2)

The rest of Asia has to wait until 2008 - though doubtless they won't, and there will be grey market iPhones coming out of Hong Kong all over eBay by May.

But for a few months at least, the world will have to sit and wait. Hopefully over time more details will emerge, as I have many questions about the device:

- what processor will it have?
- how will it handle Flash-heavy websites that cause Safari to chug in my 800mhz TiBook?
- will existing Dashboard widgets be compatible with or portable to the iPhone?
- will the camera have macrofocus so it can be used as an emergency "scanner", like my old Palm Zire 71?
- can the camera record video or just stills?
- will video chat be possible, either in future models or via peripherals?
- will it easily accommodate peripherals, particularly a dock-with-proper-keyboard?
- how much will the Euro-model be, for those buying it without a mobile phone contract?
- as well as syncing, will it be mountable as an external Flash drive?
- will the Bluetooth headset allow listening to music, unlike on the Motorola iTunes RAZR where this function has been deliberately crippled?
- and how useable will it be for people with really fat, clumsy fingers?

There's also the slimmest of chances that the iPhone will have a different name by June, as Cisco and Apple have not quite finalised a trademark licensing deal. Cisco has owned the "iphone" trademark since 2000, but a licensing deal with Apple looks like happening any second now. If it doesn't happen, my suggestion is the "iPhod".