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There are an abundant number of iPhone articles available. Here are some of the more interesting ones.

How Apple kept its iPhone secrets: Bogus prototypes, bullying the press, stifling pillow talk - all to keep iPhone under wraps.

• Apple does make it clear to employees and business partners that they will be dismissed and possibly prosecuted for leaking company secrets.
  
• Although their applications will be crucial parts of the iPhone experience, neither Yahoo nor Google saw the actual phone until shortly before the keynote, Jobs said.
  
• Two years ago, Jobs and Cingular's chief executive, Stan Sigman, got together to forge a multiyear pact to work together on the iPhone. The Apple phone didn't even exist as a sketch at that point
  
• Apple didn't show Cingular the final iPhone prototype until just weeks before this week's debut. In some cases, Apple crafted bogus handset prototypes to show not just to Cingular executives, but also to Apple's own workers.
  
• Phil Schiller, Apple's head of marketing and one of the few Apple executives involved with the project from the start, said he had to keep the iPhone development secret even from his wife and children. When he left home for the official unveiling yesterday, Schiller said, his son asked, "Dad, can you finally tell us now what you've been working on?"

Apple Waves Its Wand at the Phone: In combination with Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg, you should read be reading David Pogue of the New York Times.

• the name iPhone may be doing Apple a disservice. This machine is so packed with possibilities that the cellphone may actually be the least interesting part.
  
• As you’d expect of Apple, the iPhone is gorgeous. Its face is shiny black, rimmed by mirror-finish stainless steel. The back is textured aluminum, interrupted only by the lens of a two-megapixel camera and a mirrored Apple logo. The phone is slightly taller and wider than a Palm Treo, but much thinner (4.5 by 2.4 by 0.46 inches).
  
• Take the iPod features, for example. As on any iPod, scrolling through lists of songs and albums is a blast — but there’s no scroll wheel. Instead, you flick your finger on the glass to send the list scrolling freely, according to the speed of your flick. The scrolling spins slowly to a stop, as though by its own inertia.
  
• You can also conduct text-message conversations that appear as a continuous chat thread.
  
• You get to see the entire Web page on the iPhone’s screen, although with tiny type. To enlarge it, you can double-tap any spot; then you drag your finger to scroll in any direction.

Live from Macworld 2007: Steve Jobs keynote

• This is how I watched the Keynote as it was going on. Engadget was in the hall blogging the minutes, events and photos of the event. I sat at my desk hitting F5 seeing what was happening, as it happened.

Streaming Macworld San Francisco 2007 Keynote Address

The iPhone...Cell Phones are cool once again!!

Today Apple introduced the much awaited iPhone. Usually, I don't get excited about the newest technology gadgets. I can be rather pesmistic about the newest thing, I guess it is all these years living with Microsoft releases. Is anyone here optimistic about Vista? I didn't think so.

In fact, this morning I was telling Nick how tired I am Apple, iTunes, and iPods. I feel iTunes has monopolized my cubicle life. I listen to music on my iPod and I download songs and tv shows on iTunes with little thought how I can only play them on my computer and iPod. In fact there is a class action lawsuit against Apple over this. Time online had this to say about the iPhone:

Apple's new iPhone could do to the cell phone market what the iPod did to the portable music player market: crush it pitilessly beneath the weight of its own superiority. This is unfortunate for anybody else who makes cell phones, but it's good news for those of us who use them.

I readily admit I was skeptical until Nick sent me the Engadget running log on Steve Jobs' presentation at Macworld. As soon as I saw the pictures I was hooked! This is simply amazing. Finally, I feel America isn't 10 years behind Asia and Europe in the mobile market. Finally, a smartphone I would like to own. Finally, a good reason to be a Cingular customer!

I can't remember the last time I was impressed with a gadget let alone a cell phone, but today changed all of that. I'm marking my calendar for June so I can get one.

Just imagine the impact this could have on the local search market. If as Time says revolutionizes the mobile phone industry, with Google and Yahoo already loaded on it, how many millions will they make in mobile internet advertising? I can't wait to see how this plays out, but most importantly to Apple...I can't wait to own one!