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The Apple iPhone was released on June 29, 2007. Anticipating the potential popularity of the iPhone at MIT, IS&T initiated an iPhone Evaluation Project.
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 users. These include "real operating system" leveraging OS X, "full" web browsing capability, widgets, multi-touch user interface, etc.
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 evaluation 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.
Timeline
To see the evaluation results, see http://mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/swrt/releases/iphone-eval
The iPhone Release Project focuses on providing documentation and support strategy for the iPhone for the MIT community. Documentation for the following will be provided (or references to external sites will be made available):
- MIT Email (Setup, Attachments for various file types)
- Calendar
- Wi-Fi Setup
- Contacts
- Safari
- Use as cell phone
- International Roaming
- Gestures
Timeline
The release The evaluation project is scheduled to begin in early JulyOctober, 2007 as soon as iPhone devices can be obtained and set up for the testing teamand end in January 2007.
The evaluation team will initially meet in the week of July 9 and hold weekly meetings till the end of July, 2007release team meets every other Tuesday at 1 pm in N42-202 during the project.
Meeting Minutes
- Minutes from 7-13-2007(iPhone Evaluation Team Meeting)
- Minutes from 10-31-2007 (iPhone Release Team Meeting)
- Minutes from 11-6-2007 (iPhone Release Team Meeting)
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- iTunes (for activation initial setup and synchronization)
- Contacts Synchronization
- Calendar SynchronizationTasks Synchronication (N/A)
- Notes (cannot be synchronized)
- Certificates (X.509 Personal Certificates are not supported)
- Access to MIT's Wi-Fi Network
- MIT Web Sites
- Others (e.g. Podcasting, Widgets, Web Applications, etc.)
Known Issues (As of 11/2007)
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Apple is expected to release the iPhone SDK in early 2008. Until then, the available software applications for the iPhone is limited by what Apple provides with the device out-of-the-box. Once the SDK is available, we expect that there will be a large number of third-party applications (e.g. SyncML, etc.) that will provide rich functionality for the iPhone users. |
- X.509 Certificate support not available: Certificate-protected MIT sites are not accessible via the iPhone nor iPod Touch
- TechTime Calendar synchronization may be possible in limited manner that cannot be supported by IS&T
- Windows XP/Vista (two-way sync): Use SyncJe to synchronize Outlook to TechTime. Then, use iTunes to synchronize the iPhone to Outlook.
- Mac OS X (one-way sync): Use OraCal2iCal to overwrite iCal. Then, use iTunes to synchronize the iPhone to iCal.
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