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From Boom! iPhone Rocks Tech World
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Instead of a standard keypad, the iPhone uses a patented Apple technology called “multi-touch”. It doesn’t use a stylus, has “multi-finger gestures” and claims to ignore unintended touches. Jobs compared it to two other revolutionary Apple UIs - the mouse on the Macintosh and the click wheel on the iPod.
3.5 inch touchscreen with a virtual keyboard.
iPhone runs OS X, Apple’s standard operating system; according to Engadget’s superb coverage: “It let us create desktop class applications and networking, not the cripled stuff you find on most phones, these are real desktop applications.”
Syncs with iTunes: “iTunes is going to sync all your media to your iPhone — but also a ton of data. Contacts, calendars, photos, notes, bookmarks, email accounts…”
Apple’s design chops is all over the iPhone: “3.5-inch screen, highest resolution screen we’ve ever shipped, 160ppi. There’s only one button, the “home” button […] thinner than any smartphone…”
2 megapixel camera built in
Outstanding media features - scroll through your music, widescreen video, album art, built-in speaker…
Sync your iPhone with your PC or Mac (for contacts etc)
Standard phone features - SMS, calendar, photos, etc. With photos there is a motion sensor that rotates photos when you turn the phone.
Visual voicemail
Rich HTML emails - works with any IMAP or POP3 email service. This spells trouble for Blackberry!
The Safari browser runs on iPhone - “it’s the first fully-usable browser on a cellphone.” Jobs shows the NYT running in the iPhone - the actual website, not a puny WAP version.
Google Maps
Widgets that connect to Internet seamlessly (via WiFi and EDGE)
Free “push” IMAP email from Yahoo
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Steve Jobs said about the iPhone: “it’s the internet in your pocket for the first time ever.” He also called it “the ultimate digital device”. A 4GB model will cost $499 and an 8GB model will retail for $599. It will be available in June in the US (on the Cingular network), Europe in the 4th quarter, Asia in 2008.
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With a desktop-like UI and partnerships with two of the Big 3 Internet companies (Google and Yahoo), Apple is really upping the ante in the Mobile Web market. I think this will finally propel mobile Internet into the mainstream. Maybe 2007 will be the year of the Mobile Web after all!
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