Rumor: AT&T’s iPhone Displays to be Insane, Fancy, Extravagant, Large
- May 3rd, 2007
- 2 Comments
AT&T is getting all the hot phone love this summer, from the Curve to the iPhone. The question remains though: To which brand does the carrier’s loyalties lie? We ourselves find it hard to care. The Curve has a large AT&T marketing budget behind it, but reports are surfacing that it pales next to the inevitable onslaught of iPhone pain we’re about to experience.
Boy Genius has it that AT&T retail stores (you know, the ones that used to be AT&T, then were Cingular, but now aren’t) are ramping up corner and end-cap displays the likes of which we mere mortals have ne’er seen before. The stands measure 7×3-feet wide, have their own power supplies, and are Internet (or at least network) connected. That’s a little more than the clamp and phone charger the Sync gets.
We’re guessing there will be huge, insane flat-panel displays around the unit, elves that help you “slide to unlock” and bikini girls just to make sure nothing’s left out. When these guys hit, you know we’ll be the first to show you how gaudy shiny they turn out to be.
Apple iPhone Display Hitting Your Local AT&T Soon! [Boy Genius]
Jon (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I thinks we needs to waits till both actually HIT the market before assessing which wins the race - my guess is that it will be neither… there are some very interesting offerings coming out of Asia that have yet to hit the North American marketplace (I am sure Peter Ha can write a better article then I can with eye candy relating to this fact).
Jon
Ryan Brandys (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I have been wondering for a while what kind of display kiosk they could set up for the iPhone. If you look at the iPod, you see that the Apple Store puts special security locks on the iPods, and then lets you “try before you buy.” Your grubby, greasy fingers get all over the screen and buttons.
The iPhone is trickier. It makes phone calls. Do they really want to allow you to call your friends from the Apple Store? And how long do they let you talk, especially if there is a line to try it out?
Your contacts would not be loaded in the phone by default. That makes it tricky, too. If they disable the phone features, but let you try the rest of the device, you’ll feel like the device is crippled. That leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
In most cell phone stores, the phones are deactivated, for some of the above reasons. I’m sure there are many more So where does iPhone fit?
the Rumor mill says, special iPhone kiosks will require 220 AC power, ethernet, and a seven foot-tall-by-3-foot wide display.
Know what else has special power requirements, an ethernet cable, and would fit in a seven-by-three foot display, ? Something like a gigantic multi-touch display…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVCL7mGO1Pc
Would a giant iPhone solve the the issue of grubby fingers and potential theft? Would people be more likely to accept disabled features on a comically large floor display? And think of the publicity. There would be a two-hour line to try it out. Screw the line to try it, I’ll just but one.
Deep down, we know the iPhone’s 3.5 inch multi-touch display is a much smaller version of what is coming in the future. Wouldn’t it be cool if the kiosks reflected that?
-Ryan Brandys