Apple Announces IPhone

martin — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:12:39 +0000

Apple has introduced their first phone - IPhone. The design of the IPhone really impressed me. From what I read from Apple website, iPhone combines their 3 products: a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching into one small and lightweight handheld device.

IPhone is running on sophistication of the world’s most advanced operating system — OS X which allows access to true desktop-class applications and software including rich HTML email, full-featured web browsing, and applications such as widgets, Safari, calendar, text messaging, Notes, and Address Book. We will discuss on it later.

iPhone is a widescreen iPod
Phone is a 11.6 millimeter thick device and comes with a 3.5inch 480 x 320 touch screen display with multi-touch support. It let you enjoy music, audiobooks, videos, TV shows, and movies on a beautiful widescreen display. You can scroll through your songs, artists, albums, and playlists with just a flick of a finger. Just like IPod, IPhone lets you to synchronize your content from the iTunes library on your PC or Mac. To playback a video, you can just tap the touch control for play/pause,chapter forward/backward, and volume.

iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone
You can make a call by touching at a name or number in address book, a call log, or a favorites list, it is very simple and ease. Besides, you can quickly merge calls together to create conference calls.

Visual Voicemail allows lets you select and listen to voicemail messages in whatever order you want. So you can quickly select the messages that are most important to you.

iPhone features an SMS application with a predictive QWERTY soft keyboard whic prevents and corrects mistakes. This make it easier and more efficient to use compare to other smartphone.

iPhone includes a 2-megapixel camera and a photo management application. With IPhone, you can synchronize all your contacts from a PC, Mac, or Internet service with your mobile phone.

IPhone is a breakthrough Internet communications device
iPhone features the most advanced Safari web browser which automatically syncs bookmarks from your PC or Mac. Safari also includes built-in Google and Yahoo! search.

IPhone comes with a rich HTML email client that receive your email in the background from most POP3 or IMAP mail services.

With Google Maps and iPhone’s amazing Maps application, you can view maps and satellite images, or get directions and traffic information.

iPhone has widgets which is a small applications that give you helpful information like stock reports, weather reports, and more in real time.

Besides, Apple quotes 5 hours of battery life for talk or video, with a full 16 hours in music mode. The 4GB iPhone will go out the door in the US as a Cingular exclusive for $499 on a two-year contract, 8GB for $599. Ships Stateside in June, Europe in fourth quarter, Asia in 2008.

Apple IPhone’s specifications:

Screen size:3.5 inches
Screen resolution:320 x 480 at 160 ppi
Input method:Multi-touch
Operating system:OS X
Storage:4GB or 8GB
GSM:Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)
Wireless data:Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0
Camera:2.0 megapixels
Battery:Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing, Up to 16 hours Audio playback
Dimensions:4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm
Weight:4.8 ounces / 135 grams

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