Amber and Leo featured this video on their audio podcast net@nite. This music video is based on the original iPhone instruction video and has been lip-synced wonderfully. It’s not my kind of music, but still, a brilliant production and a must-watch.

I wasn’t around to follow the Jobs’ 90 minute keynote, but luckily there were other people present to shrink it all down into a 60-second rundown. It’s a marketing-diluted version to bring you up to speed without all the unnecessary superlatives. A few examples used by Steve himself: extra-ordinary, incredible, tremendous, amazing, unprecedented, great, revolutionary, unbelievable, most successful ever.

A select group of iPhone users have reported that the touch-sensitive screen loses its sensitivity after an undefined period of time (mostly dependent on how heavy the usage is). The Finnish firm that developed the technology apparently foresaw this issue, since Apple is silently replacing the affected units without a lot of hoo-hah.While these issues don’t encompass the majority of the complaints about the iPhone, some believe this is only the beginning. It could become a problem for Apple if this turns out to be a widespread defect.

With the iPhone being well on its way for the official release in the States on the 29th of June, us Europeans are starting to wonder whether we’ll ever get our hands on this heavily hyped gadget.Apparently, Apple hasn’t quite established the necessary partnerships with mobile telecom corporations in Europe. These are needed (or wanted) to carry the iPhone over our networks. While this looks easy enough, Apple seems to be nit-picky and is probably setting high demands (US-comparable?), in search of an overseas AT&T.

Unlike in America, most European countries don’t allow cellphones to be eternally tied to just one network. Most states only allow this to happen temporarily, after which an unlock must be provided. In Belgium, for instance, this is completely illegal, which makes me think it’ll probably take even longer for the iPhone to arrive.

Since Apple really needs a dedicated carrier in the US, it’s unlikely we’ll see it before a deal has been signed. Nokia pretty much own the the smart-phone industry on the continent and would kill the iPhone hands down.

Seemingly, there’s a pretty high demand for the iPhone in Europe. Some statistics show that no less than 7 million UK-residents rate their interest-level as “strong”.

On the flip-side,  we may question ourselves if this hype is justified, before hasting out and making impulsive purchases…