iPhone will have no functionality without activation (no iPod, nor presumably WiFi)

A piece of text on Apple’s rate plan page for the iPhone reads:

“Minimum new 2-year wireless service plan and activation fee required to activate iPhone features, including iPod; plans are subject to AT&T credit approval.”

In other words, if you buy an iPhone at an […]

Apple has announced that, in order to obviate delays at the time of purchase, iPhones will be activated via iTunes rather than in-store. Apple says “Activating iPhone takes only minutes as iTunes guides the user through simple steps to choose their service plan, authorize their credit and activate their iPhone. Once iPhone is activated, users […]

Apple has posted a guided tour of the iPhone to its Web site. The rather lengthy (about 20 minutes), narrated video goes into more detail than any other presentation of the device thus far — including Steve Jobs’ on-stage presentation.

As reported separately, Apple is encouraging developers who want to create iPhone applications to simply write Web applications (served through Internet and perhaps also stored locally on the iPhone). As also reported on our sister site MacFixIt, Safari is now available for Windows.So, it looks like Safari is now the platform on which iPhone […]

Steve Jobs’ recommendation to developers seeking to produce applications for the iPhone: write Web applications.Declining to announce any actual SDK for the iPhone, Apple told developers at the WWDC today that they should write robust “Web 2.0 applications” for the iPhone, making use of AJAX and other technologies. These applications will all run within […]

UPDATE: The 2 year activation requirement message has been mysteriously removed from all iPhone commercials … hmm.
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Pundits flocked to scrutinize every aspect of the three newly issued iPhone television commercials, which revealed June 29th as the device’s official release data. InformationWeek asks “Does it really turn on that quickly?” (yes, based on Steve Jobs’ initial […]