[Macpartners] iPhone Evaluation Project Announcement

[Andrew Yu]

Good morning,

The Apple iPhone will be available on June 29, 2007 from the Apple Store and 
AT&T company-owned stores (not franchised stores). Anticipating the 
potential popularity of the iPhone, IS&T initiated an iPhone Evaluation 
Project.

IS&T urges potential buyers to wait until the evaluation project has been 
completed and more information is available about the iPhone.

Apple's iPhone is one of the most anticipated mobile devices in recent 
history. While the full details are yet unknown, iPhone promises a number of 
revolutionary features that might benefit the MIT community. These include a 
variant of Mac OS X and full web browsing capabilities.

The goal of the project is to investigate the viability of the Apple iPhone 
within the MIT environment and to share the findings with the community. The 
testing will include email, calendar, contacts, certificates, web browsing, 
and other features that are essential to MIT mobile device users. The 
project will also investigate ways to make the iPhone work with these 
features and document the findings. The project is expected to be completed 
by the end of July, at which time, IS&T will communicate its findings and 
recommendations.

For more information on Apple's iPhone, please visit 
http://www.apple.com/iphone.

To find out more about this project, please visit iPhone Evaluation Project 
Notebook (http://mit.edu/swrt/releases/iphone-eval/) or contact Andrew Yu 
(andrewyu at mit.edu). If you are interested in mobile devices, please join the 
Mobile Partners User Group (http://mit.edu/mobilepartners/). Additional 
information about the iPhone and other mobile devices will be available to 
this group.

Cheers,

Andrew
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Andrew Yu
Mobile Devices Platform Coordinator
Information Services & Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Phone: 617-324-8985
Email: andrewyu at mit.edu