I tried to address this in the post above, but if you remember from Steve Job’s MacWorld keynote, he said that the interface for syncing the iPhone with the PC is iTunes.

If you’re on a Windows PC today, I believe that you can sync your Outlook contacts and events through iTunes, right (though, in searching on this, I found that this process is not without it’s problems–but it’s Windows, right :-))? If that’s the case today with the iPod, I believe that will be the case for the iPhone.

But we’ll know more soon enough!

For me (PC at work and Mac at Home) it is very important to sync it all. And currently I use a Dell Axim running WM5 that syncs with both the Macs and PCs with the right tools. So does the Palm OS based devices.

I hope the iPhone will not be a Mac only device.

However, if they were to allow it to use VOIP while at home (or wherever there was WiFi), this would attract more people to buy the phone and thus more customers to Cingular - away from their competitors.

With the Cingular network working with the iPhone, you could do some nice things like the VOIP service is integrated so you still have one phone number - when the iPhone is using VOIP, all your calls to your cell number go over the internet to the phone and the cell radio is turned off to save power to run the WiFi radio. For this to work, of course, Cingular would be the VOIP service provider, gathering much of the VOIP business.

My only disappointment is that it doesn’t have iChat w/VOIP. But they are constrained by Cingular for now. And iChat doesn’t have Voip yet. BUT, since Leopard is going to have remote desktop with iChat, this would be a killer feature for the phone. I think we’ll see a few more things that the phone will do after or when Leopard is out. And they are only stuck with Cingular for 2 years. Think of all the R and D costs that need to be made up by sales of the phone for these first two years. Essentially Cingular’s discount in exchange for a 2 year contract is making in the realm of possibility to buy it. Once these fixed costs are payed for, we’ll see the iPhone drop in price just like the iPod did.

Also, don’t be upset that it is not 3G. I live in an area that has UMTS, and it sucks. I took my 3G phone back to Cingular and got an Edge based Treo 650 and the call quality is excellent and the internet service is ok. The problem with 3G in the US is even if you have it, it is spotty, and it will drop calls and data access.

I think apple made the right decision. Hopefully enough early adopters will by this thing worldwide, so when the price drops to say $350 I’ll hop on board.

Other than that, I haven’t been able to find much more discussion of this. If you can shed any more light on this topic, please post it, I’m eager to find out more about it.