- Three years ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was skeptical that anyone would want to watch video on mobile devices.
- In case you've been meditating on a mountaintop for the last six months, Apple's iPhone may be the most hyped creation since the Super Bowl.
- It sends e-mail, surfs the Web and plays songs -- while serving as a mousetrap, sonogram, pan flute and hand grenade, according to "Late Night with Conan O'Brien."
- America has more than 200 million cell phone subscribers, yet no more than 4 percent have ever watched a video on their phones, according to analyst Charles Golvin of Forrester Research.
- Cheaper data plans and ad-supported video, not the iPhone, are the keys, said Boris Fridman of Crisp Wireless, which delivers video to cell phones for big media companies.
- One of the big questions swirling around the iPhone -- right after "Will the touch screen get smudgy?" and "How much will AT&T charge for service?" -- is whether the device will be too slow for Web surfing and live video.
- Speed should not be an issue if you're within range of a Wi-Fi hot spot, for wireless broadband Internet access. For cellular data transfers, however, the iPhone uses AT&T's EDGE network -- slower than so-called "3G" networks that are state of the art.