The keyboard is built into other phones, those designed for businesspeople as well as those for teenagers. But the lack of a keyboard could be seen as a clever industrial design solution. It has permitted the iPhone to have a 3.5-inch screen. A big screen makes the phone attractive for alternative uses like watching movies and that could open up new revenue streams for Apple and its partner, AT&T.The downside is that typing is done by pecking on the screen with thumbs or fingers, something hardly anyone outside of Apple has experienced yet. “The tactile feedback of a mechanical keyboard is a pretty important aspect of human interaction,” said Bill Moggeridge, a founder of Ideo, an industrial design company in Palo Alto, Calif. “If you take that away you tend to be very insecure.”
Sometimes these on screen keyboards can be tough.
I'm going to attempt some guesses concerning the other things the iPhone won't have:
-There is no ring tone, the phone plays your iTunes music files if someone calls. The iRing comes out later in the year and is an extra fee.
- No stylus, so the iPhone doesn't become the Newton of the current mobile world
Your guesses are as good as mine.
