Everybody seems to have an opinion on the potential impact of Apple's iPhone on the mobile phone/device market.
A search for blog posts tagged 'iPhone' on Technorati currently lists over 10,000 items, a considerable amount given that all we know of this phone is the contents of Steve Jobs' presentation, a couple of pages on the Apple website and the opinions of the (very) few journalists who have been allowed a 10 minute examination of the device.
What is clear however is that this is a device which takes messaging seriously. The attention paid to both SMS and Email client indicates that this is a device that people will want to use as a messaging device, a considerable contrast with mobile phones from established phone manufacturers who appear to have added (bad) email clients to their devices as an afterthought.
It seems likely that the email client supports IMAP IDLE, part of the IETF's Lemonade profile giving users a 'push' email experience based on Open Standards. It will be interesting to see if support for any of the other LEMONADE extensions to IMAP and SMTP make it into the client in time for the iPhone's June release in the US. As Steve Jobs said in during the presentation, when it comes to email delivery:
"IMAP, is of course, the best"
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