iPhone is a multimedia, Internet-enabled mobile smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. As usual with Apple stable, the iPhone breaks some design boundaries. Bid goodbye to traditional cell phone buttons; the Apple iPhone is all touch screen. With only one hardware control (that's a Home key), iPhone is dominated by a huge, 3.5-inch display.
It has a multi-touch screen with virtual keyboard and buttons. The iPhone's functions include those of a 2-megapixel camera phone and a portable media player ("iPod"), in addition to text messaging and visual voicemail.
iPhone features a rich HTML email client and Safari — the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device — which automatically syncs bookmarks from your PC or Mac. Safari also includes built-in Google and Yahoo! search. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background over Wi-Fi or EDGE. It is a quad-band mobile phone that uses the GSM standard, hence has international capability.
It also has proximity sensor, which will turn off the display automatically when a user lifts the iPhone to his ear for a conversation, and an ambient light sensor will adjust the
display's brightness for various lighting situations.
Following the success of iPod, Apple announced the iPhone in January 2007. The Apple iPhone was introduced, first in the United States on June 29, 2007 with much media frenzy and then in the United Kingdom, Germany and France in November 2007. It was named Time magazine's Invention of the Year in 2007. A new version of Apple's iPhone is expected to be introduced in 2008 that is capable of operating on faster 3G cellular networks.
With such features, It is not surprising that iPhone in US has become a craze among all age groups, and rest of the world is not behind. |
The touch screen
