The Passion of the Jesusphone: iPhone short links roundup

Today is iPhone day….

Boing Boing:

Xeni Jardin:

Steve Jobs hosted a companywide town hall meeting for Apple employees earlier today, all about iPhone. Word is: Full-time Apple employees who’ve been there a year or more will receive one of the devices, free. This adds up to a total retail value of more than $12 million. Gizmodo: Link. Engadget’s posts: one, two.

Apple will limit day-of-release purchases to two iPhones per person, max: Link.

How many mobile phone consumers will switch from their current carriers to AT&T because of iPhone? Link, and here’s a “HOWTO dump your carrier” guide.

What about international markets? Snip from the relevant Apple press release:

iPhone will be available in (…) Europe in late 2007, and Asia in 2008.

Here are the 13 AT&T Store iPhone Objection-Response scripts: Link.

Apple published the AT&T rate plans earlier this week, here: Link.

One of the more commonly voiced skeptical points, pre-launch — how usable can this thing be as a texting device without a conventional, opposable-thumbs-friendly keyboard? Apple posted what amounts to a response yesterday: Link to “iPhone Keyboard” video.

Macintouch has a good features FAQ here: Link. SFGate published a pretty comprehensive FAQ here: Link.

Reviews from people who have spent time with the iPhone: Pogue (NYT), Mossberg (WSJ), Levy (Newsweek), Ed Baig (USA Today). I found this clever scorecard helpful: Link.

This PC World article lists 11 bummer factors: Link.

On the Apple website, official word that accessories and products certified as iPhone-compliant will carry a “Works with iPhone” logo: Link. More on the accessories market here, and a critical take here.

iPhone and security: A big deal. Not a big deal. Big deal or not a big deal?

Some people are taking Brian (Gizmodo) Lam’s “Jesusphone” thing too seriously: Link versus Link.

Here’s a Google Maps mashup that combines the Maps API with locations of AT&T and Apple stores, as well as listings on Craigslist and eBay. Link for more info on how to use it.”