"Having an iPhone locked to a network which doesn’t provide 3G connectivity, and is unable to make VoIP calls despite having good wireless networking built in, is like buying a Ferrari and finding that the only thing you can do with it is power your lawnm

"Sky News to have an iPhone-optimised version of their website ready for iPhone launch day tomorrow."

Dorian Benkoll: "The iPod moment for newspapers will be when truly functional ePaper hits… color, touchscreen, wireless Internet built in, agnostic to standard, plays video, can work and read when not connected."

"The basic handset will cost British consumers £269 - £69 more than in the US - but Britons must also sign up to a contract …at between £899 and £1,259, depending on the call plan."

Mike Butcher:"Almost everything was predicted beforehand, except the rather clever idea behind O2’s service which will see it partner with European-wide WiFi network The Cloud". … That and no 3G.

"… a new iPhone-like touchscreen music and video player that has a full Internet browser and the capacity to download music."

The iPhone ain’t it, but when it comes, the iPod moment for newspapers will be very bad news for unpopular sections of the newspaper bundle.

"Nokia will tomorrow launch [the N81] mobile phone to rival Apple’s iPhone as the must-have gadget for Christmas. Nokia handset to rival Apple iPhone Apple’s iPhone will be launched in Europe later this year"

Alan Rusbridger: "I don’t think either [iPhone or iRex] represents the iPod moment for newspapers. But it feels to me as if it won’t be too long before there is a relatively mass market device on which reading a newspaper (and watching it and listening to

"Except for islands of early adopters, such as South Korea, consumers have so far shown little interest in watching TV on their handsets." That might change with iPhone…

"The Apple iPhone, I think, points out the inevitable doom for print newspapers. While reading news on a desktop PC or laptop isn’t always practical … at the point that most people are carrying around phones as capable as (or more so than) the iPhone,

"Well, that didn’t take long — the hacker crew of IRC channel #iPhone has managed to enable shell access to the iPhone just a week after its release."

Scott Karp: "[T]here is not a publisher or media company who shouldn’t be tracking the iPhone closely. The iPhone is a window into the future of media."

"a ton of sites are scrambling to redesign specifically for Apple’s [iphone] … Noticeably absent from this redesign craze are news organizations. "